PLANTS FROM BATANES AND BABUYANES ISLANDS. 439 



from Luzon, and Cuming 121/2, in Herb. Kew, the type of Vidal's species, whicli 

 was from the Province of Ilocos Norte, Luzon, and consider them to be identical, 

 and a Morirula, rather than Lucinaea. The same form is found in Formosa, 

 Koshun, KatvaJcami 162Jf, distributed as Psychotria serpens Linn. 



Luzon to Formosa. 



SPERMACOCE Dill. 



S. hispida Linn. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3108 Fenix. 



Throughout the Philippines; India to Formosa and Malaya. 



CUCUEBITACE^^^. 



TRICHOSANTHES Linn. 



T. quinquangulata A. Gray. 



Camiguin, 3989 Fenix. 



Widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 



MELOTHRIA Linn. 

 M. indica Lour. var. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 369Jf Fenix. N. v., Simoncaram. 

 Widely distributed in the Philippines; India to China and Malaj^a. 



COMPOSIT.E. 



VERNON I A Schreb. 



V. patula (Dryand.) 



Conyza patula Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 (1789) 184. 



Conyza chinensis Lam. Encycl. 2 (1790) 83, non Linn. 



Cyanthillium puhescens Blume Bijdr. (1826) 890. 



Cyanthillium villosum Blume 1. c. 889. 



Vernonia albicans DC. in Wight Contrib. (1834) 6; Prodr. 5 (1836) 26. 



Vernonia chinensis Less. Linnaea 6 (1831) 105, 674; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 3 (1881) 235; Forbes & Hemsl. in -Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1888) 401, non 

 Conyza chinensis Linn. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3599 Fenix. 



A common weed throughout the Philippines; Formosa, southern China, Malaya, 

 and India. 



The commonly used specific name for this species, chinensis, is invalid being 

 based on Conyza chinensis Lam., non Linn., and accordingly what is apparently 

 the earliest valid specific name for the species is here adopted. The name patula 

 has been used in Vernonia by Martins, but only as a synonym, and does not 

 prevent the adoption of Dryander's specific name for the present species. 



Conyza chinensis Lam., is manifestly this species, and not the same as C. 

 chinensis Linn., although the exact identity of the latter is doubtful. From the 

 original description I suspected that Linnaeus really described the species here 

 considered to be Vernonia patula, but this seems to be not the case. 



The Linnean Herbarium does not clear vp the matter, as at my request Mr. B. 

 Dayton Jackson, Secretary of the Linnean Society, kindly examined the original 

 specimens, and under the date of June 15, 1908, writes as follows: "There are 

 three sheets pinned together by Linne himself. ( 1 ) Two specimens of the same 

 plant, a Blumea, with the note Siu'att. At foot of sheet in L's handwriting 

 'Conyza chinensis.' ( 2 ) A single specimen which matches your specimen ( Verno- 

 nia chinensis Less.) ; at the heel of it is written Ard. which means Arduino; a 

 ticket in Arduino's handwriting is attached thus: — No. 27 an Serratula glauca 



