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iuvoluei’al bracts 2-scriatc, narrowly oblong, obtuse or acute, spai'ingiy 
pilose on the median ])ortion, about 4 mni. long, 1 mm. wide. Itay 
llowers pistillate, ligulate, 2 or more seriate, the ligule oblong about 
1.5 mm. long or less; style short, 2-cleft at the apex. Disk flowers 
greenish yellow, tulmlar, h(‘rma])hrodite. Corolla 1.5 mm. long, reguhudy 
5-cleft, the lobes 1 mm. long, acute. Anthers oblong-ovate, acute, the 
base olituse. Style equaling the corolla, 2-cleft at the apex. Achcjies 
compressed, glabrous, oblong, the margins thickened, 3 mm. long, 1.2 mm. 
wide, tipped with a short somewhat glandular ring. Pappus 0. 
Luzon, District of Lepanto, iMount Data (4530 Merrill) November, li)05. Com- 
mon ill the damp, mossy forests at 2,100 m. and above. The first species of tlie 
g'eiius to be reported from the Pliilippines. 
SENECIO Linn. 
Senecio luzoniensis Meriill sp. nov. 
An erect, stout, glabrous, simple or s])aringly branched herb about 
1 m. liigh, with oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, rather oliscurely irregularly 
crenate leaves and terminal corymbose many flowered panicles, the heads 
about 1 to 1.3 cm. long, 1.5 cm. or more in diameter, including the rays. 
Stems terete. Arm, glabrous, reddish brown. Leaves 10 to 15 cm. long, 
1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, glabrous, strongly reticulate veined, the upper ones 
sessile or subsessile, the lower ones petiolate, the petiole 1 cm. long, base 
acute, apex usually long acuminate. Paniedes about 15 cm. long, nearly 
as M'ide, the Ifranches ascending, the bracts and liraeteoles linear, the 
primary lu’anches subtended by linear 3 to 4 cm. long leaf-like bracts, the 
bracteoles usfially about 2 or 3 mm. long. Heads al)Out 25-flowered; 
involucral bracts about 13, 1-seriate, imbricate, free, oblong-lanceolate, 
7 to 8 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, acute glabrous, membranous 
margined, a few short outer bracts at the base. Pay flowers about (> 
in each head, yellow, the tube slender, 4 to 5 mm. long, the ligule oblong, 
10 to 11 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, strongly 4-nerved, obtuse, the apex 
with three small blunt teeth. Disk flowers yellow, the corolla tubular, 
inflated above, alfout 8 mm. long, 5-lobed, the lobes about 1.3 mm. long, 
oblong, blunt. Antliers slender, about 3 mm. long, Iflunt at the base. 
Style 2-cleft, the arms about 1.5 mm. long, ti’uncate. Achenes about 4 
mm. long, less than 1 mm. tliick ol,)Scurely 10-striate, glal irons, narrowly 
oblong. Disk paleaceous. 
ImzoiV. rrovince of Benguet, 8uyoc to Pauai (4701 Merrill) Novcmlirv 7, 1005. 
A stout erect lierb growing iii grass lauds on liigli ridges near tlie lower limits 
of the mossy forest at about 2,150 m. 
SOLIDAGO ],iuu. 
Solidago virgaurea Linn. Sp. PI. (1753), 880. 
Liizon, Province of Benguet, Baguio to Anilud.;lao (4364 Merrill) October 24, 
1905. Widely distributed in the region of Pinus insularis Endl., 1,500 to 2.000 ni. 
North America, Eurojie, and temperate Asia south to Formosa. 
