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lobes lanceolate, acute or ol)tuse, about 2.5 mm. long-. Style arms nearlj' 
1.5 mm. long. Anthers slender, 3 min. long or less. 
Luzox, Proviiiee of Bcnguet. Biigias {4(!04 Merrill) October 28, 1!H)5. The fol- 
lowing specimens are apparently referable here: Benguet, Bagnio ((1599, 6000 
Elmer) .Tune, 1904; (4205 Merrill) October, 1905. 
A species characteristic of the open, dry, grassy slopes in thin pine forests from 
1.500 to 2.100 in., widely distributed in Benguet and Lepanto; abundant. The 
species here projiosed dill'ers from Emilia sonchifoiiu DC., in the imolucral bracts 
being constantly much shorter than the llowers, in this character approaching 
Emilia flammea. Cass. As in Emilia, sonchifolia, the species is exceedingly 
variable, but is aiiparently distinct from all other previously described forms. 
Emilia sonchifolia. Elmer, in herb. 
GYNURA Cass. 
Gynura dementis Merrill sp. nov. 
Scaiulent, more or less pubescent with crisped hairs throughout. 
/ Branches dark brown, obscurely angled, ferruginous crisped pubescent 
with scattered hairs. Leaves alternate, elliptical-oblong to narrowly 
oblong-obovate, 5 to 8 cm. long. 1.5 to 3.5 cm. wide, coriaceous, acute, 
at both ends, coarsely irregularly toothed, the teeth acute, the upper 
surface subscabihl, the lower rather (lensely ferruginous pubescent; 
nerves 5 to G on each side of the midrib ; petioles 0.8 to 1.5 cm. long, 
pubescent, the stipules orbicular, often 1 cm. in diameter. Heads 
purplish, about 25-flowered, 1.5 cm. long or less, in few flowered axillary 
and terminal corymbs 10 cm. long or less. Involucre cylindrical or 
subcampanulate, the bracts 8, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4 to 8 mm. long, 
1.5 to 2.5 mm. wide, somewhat puljescent with crisped hairs, and with 
several short linear bracteoles at the Ifase. Blowers homogamous, pur- 
plish, slender, about 12 mm. long including the achene, the tube 7 mm. 
long, the upper slightly expanded poiTion about 3 mm. long, the teeth 5, 
lanceolate, acute, 1.5 mm. long. Stamens 5; anthers 2 mm. long, 
lanceolate, the cells not produced at the base. Style anns 3 mm. long, 
slightly pubescent. Achenes oblong, 3 mm. long, l)rown, abofit 10-ribbcd, 
sparingly hispid. Disk glabrous, pitted. 
]\IiNi)AXAO, Lake Lanao, Camp Iveitbley (49 Mrs. Clemens) .Tanuary, 1900. 
MYRIACTIS Less. 
Myriactis humilis Merrill sp. uov. 
An herl) 20 cm. high or less, sparingly pilose or nearly glabrous, with 
long jietioled deeply and coarsely ]unnately lohed leaves and solitary 
long pcduncled heads about 7 mm. in diameter. Branches few, terete, 
with few scattered w'eak hairs. Leaves meml)ranous, 3 to 5 cm. long, 
1.5 to 3 cm. wide, coarsely lyrately lobed, tlie lobes entire or coarsely 
toothed, a])iculate, both surfaces with feAv scattei'ed weak hairs, the u})per 
leaves much smaller, the uppermost entire and bract like; 'petioles 1 to 
3 cm. long. Peduncles slender, 5 cm. long or less, solitary. Hoads 
5 mm. long, the ray flowers shoil. white, the disk llowers gi'e(‘iiish yellow; 
