.' PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 355 



COMPOSITAE. 



GYNURA Cass. 

 GYNURA PIPERI sp. nov. 



Species G. sarmentosae DC. simillima et ut videtur valde affi- 

 nis, differt foliis utrinque ramulis inflorescentiisque plus minusve 

 dense crispato-pubescentibus. 



A scandent herbaceous vine the ultimate branches 2 to 3 mm 

 in diameter, reddish-brown, slig-htly striate, glabrous, the younger 

 parts sparingly crisped-pubescent with short, weak hairs. 

 Leaves chartaceous or subcoriaceous, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 

 entire or rarely distantly and irregularly toothed, oblong to 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base obtuse or acute, 3 to 9 cm long, 

 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, the upper ones much reduced, the uppermost 

 scarcely 2 cm in length and bract-like, both surfaces rather 

 densely and uniformly pubescent with short, rather pale or 

 brownish, weak, crisped hairs; lateral nerves about 3 on each 

 side of the midrib, obscure ; petioles 3 to 6 mm long, densely pubes- 

 cent. Inflorescence terminal, peduncled, lax, crisped-pubescent, 

 the heads 7 to 10, slenderly peduncled, oblong, in anthesis about 

 14 mm long. Involucral bracts linear, about 10 mm long, acute, 

 sparingly pubescent on the back. 



SiQuiJOE, C. V. Piper 38U, May 9, 1911. 



A species manifestly closely allied to Gynura sarmentosa DC, but 

 distinguished at once by its entire or subentire leaves and by its charac- 

 teristic indumentum. 



EUPATORIUM L. 



EUPATORIUM JAPONICUM Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) 308; Forbes & Hemsl. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1888) 403. 



Batanes Islands, Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 3177 

 Mearns, May 27, 1907. 



The specimen here referred to Eupatorium japonicum Thunb. has 

 leaves up to 12 cm in length and divided quite to the base into three 

 segments, even the upper leaves subtending the branches of the inflo- 

 rescence being deeply divided. It may be referable to some other species, 

 but from the material available here for comparison, and from the de- 

 scriptions, I can see no reason for separating it from Thunberg's species. 



Japan to Formosa and southern China. A distinct northern type in 

 the Philippine flora. 



EUPATORIUM CAMIGUINENSE sp. nov. § Eximhricata. 



Herba scandens, caulibus teretibus, leviter pubescentibus ; 

 foliis ovatis vel late oblong-ovatis, submembranaceis, usque ad 13 

 cm longis, basi late rotundatis, apice longe tenuiter acuminatis, 

 margine argute serrato-dentatis, utrinque leviter glandulosis, ad 

 costa nervisque pubescentibus; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 



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