428 MERRir.L. 



A scandent herbaceous plant reaching a height of 5 m. Branches terete, 

 glabrous, slender. Leaves opposite, membranous, glabrous or somewhat 

 pubescent along the midrib beneath, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 

 the base acute, the apex long slender acuminate, the margins irregularly 

 rather coarsely subrepand glandular-dentate, 6 to 9 cm. long, 2 to 3 

 cm. wide; nerves 6 to 7 on each side of the midrib, not prominent; 

 petioles 2 to 5 mm. long, bearded in the axils. Cymes axillary, few- 

 flowered, the peduncles 1.5 cm. long or less, pubescent. Calyx about 

 5.5 mm. long, the tube slightly hirsute, narrowly ovoid, 2.5 mm. long, 

 the lobes lanceolate, 3 mm. long, persistent. Corolla yellow, 13 mm. 

 long, slightly hirsute outside, densely so within, the lobes 5 to 6 mm. 

 long, hyaline margined. Stamens glabrous. Style glabrous; stigma 

 ciliate-fringed. Fruit fleshy, ovoid, dark-purple, about 8 mm. long. 



JoLO, Mount Da jo (5324 Merrill) October 11, 1906, scandent in thickets on 

 exposed ridges at an altitude of 650 m., in the Moro stronghold on Mount Dajo 

 which was reduced by the American troops in March, 1906. 



Apparently most closely related to Scaevola minaJiassce Koord., from Celebes 

 and Mindanao, differing from that species in being more glabrous and witli 

 larger leaves which are acute at the base and not pubescent beneath. 



COMPOSIT.5:. 



BLUMEA DC. 



Blumea sericans Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 (1881) 262; Forbes & Hemsl. 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1888) 422. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley (894 Mrs. Clemens) January, 1907, 

 common in open grass lands; not previously recorded from the Philippines. 

 Chittagong, Burma and Martaban to southern China and Formosa. 



