442 MEKKILL. 



GYNURA (ass. 



G. elliptica Yabe & Hayata in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo 18^ (1904) 25, pi. 2. 

 Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3691 Fenix. Sabtan, Petrelli, s. n. 

 Previously known only from Formosa, tlie specimens cited above agreeiiipf well 

 with the description and plate. 



EMILIA (ass. 



Emilia sonchifolia (Linn.) DC. 



BATA^-, Santo Domingo de Basco, Sl'/G, 31S0, 3.182 Mearns; 3593 Fenix. Cami- 

 GUIN, Jf020 Fenix. 



A widely distributed and variable weed in the Philippines; warm and tropical 

 parts of the Old World, introduced into the New. 



LACTUCA Linn. 



L. dentata (Thunb.) C. B. Robins, in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 218. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 36.'/5 Fenix. 



Throughout the Philippines at higher altitudes; Japan and Formosa. 



L. squarrosa (Tlmnb.) Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 2 (1856) 189. 



I'rcnauthcs squarrosa Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) 303. 



Prenanthes laciniata Houtt. Nat. Hist. 28 (1779) 381, t. 66, f. 1, non Lactuca 

 laciniata Roth. 



Lactuca laciniata Makino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 17 (1903) 88, non Roth. 



Lactuca hrevirostris Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. 4 (1852) 237. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 367.J Fenix. 



Northern India to Manchuria. .Japan, Formosa, southern Cliina and the 

 Philippines. 



ORE PIS Linn. 



Crepis japonica (Linn.) Benth. 



Batax, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3/S7, 3146a Mearns. 



Widely distributed in the Philippines at medium and higher altitudes; Japan 

 to southern China, India and Australia. 



