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iiivolucral 1)racts 2-sc'riate, narrowly oblong, ol)tusi' or acute, sparingly 

 pilose on the median portion, about 4 mm. long, 1 mm. wide. IJay 

 flowers pistillate, ligulate. 2 or more seriate, the ligule ol)long about 

 1.5 mm. long or less; style short, 2-cleft at the apex. Disk flowers 

 greenish yellow, tubular, hermaphrodite. Corolla 1.5 mm. long, regularly 

 5-eleft, the lobes 1 mm. long, acute. Anthers oblong-ovate, acute, the 

 base obtuse. Style equaling the corolla, 2-cleft at the apex. Achenes 

 compressed, glabrous, oblong, the margins thickened, 3 mm. long, 1.2 mm. 

 wide, tipped with a short somewhat glandular ring. Pappus 0. 



Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mount Data (45W Merrill) November, 15)05. Coni- 

 iiion in the dainp. mossy forests at 2,^00 m. and above. Tlie first species of tlie 

 ii'enus to be reported from tlie Philippines. 



SENECIO Liim. 



Senecio luzoniensis ^lerrill sp. nov. 



An erect, stout, glabrous, simple or sparingly branched herb about 

 1 m. high, with oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, rather obscurely irregularly 

 crenate leaves and terminal corymbose many flowered panicles, the heads 

 about 1 to l.l) cm. long, 1.5 cm. or more in diameter, including the rays. 

 Stems terete, firm, glabrous, reddish jjrown. Leaves 10 to 15 cm. long, 

 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, glabrous, strongly reticulate veined, the upper ones 

 sessile or subsessile, the lower ones petiolate. the petiole 1 cm. long, base 

 acute, apex usually long acuminate. Panicles al^out 15 cm. long, nearly 

 as wide, the branches ascending, the bi'acts and liracteojes linear, the 

 primary branches subtended by linear ;> to 4 cm. long leaf-like bracts, the 

 bracteoles usually about 2 or 3 mm. long. Heads about 25-flowered ; 

 involucral bracts about 13, 1-seriate, indn'icafe, free, oblong-lanceolate, 

 7 to 8 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, acute glabrous, membranous 

 margined, a few short outer bracts at the base. Pay flowers about 6 

 in each head, yellow, the tube slender, 4 to 5 mm. long, the ligule oblong, 

 10 to 11 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, strongly 4-nerved, obtuse, the apex 

 with three small blunt teeth. Disk flowers yellow, the corolla tubular, 

 inflated above, about S mm. long, 5-lol)ed, the lobes about 1.3 mm. long, 

 oblong, blunt. Anthers slender, about 3 mm. long, blunt at the base. 

 Style 2-cleft, the arms about 1.5 mm. long, truncate. Achenes about 4 

 mm. long, less than 1 mm. thick obscurely 10-striate, glabrous, narrowly 

 oblong. Disk paleaceous. 



I^izox, Province of Bengnet, Suyoc to Pauai (4791 }f(rriJl) Xovciiibn- 7. MIO."). 

 A stout erect herb growing in grass lands on high ridges near tlie lower limits 

 of the mossy forest at about 2,150 m. 



SOLI DAGO Linn. 



Solidago virgaurea Linn. Sp. PI. (1753), 880. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet. Bagnio to Ambuklao (43G4 Merrill) October 24, 

 1905. Widely distributed in the region of Pinus insularis Endl., 1.500 to 2.000 m. 

 North America, Europe, and temperate Asia south to Formosa. 



