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COMPOSITAE. 
GYNURA Cass. 
GYNURA PIPERI sp. nov. 
Species G. sarmentosae DC. simillima et ut videtur valde affi- 
nis, differt foliis utrinque ramulis inflorescentiisque plus minusve 
dense crispato-pubescentibus. 
A scandent herbaceous vine the ultimate branches 2 to 3 mm 
in diameter, reddish-brown, slightly striate, glabrous, the younger 
parts sparingly crisped-pubescent with short, weak hairs. 
Leaves chartaceous or subcoriaceous, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
entire or rarely distantly and irregularly toothed, oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base obtuse or acute, 3 to 9 cm long, 
1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, the upper ones much reduced, the uppermost 
scarcely 2 cm in length and bract-like, both surfaces rather 
densely and uniformly pubescent with short, rather pale or 
brownish, weak, crisped hairs; lateral nerves about 3 on each 
side of the midrib, obscure ; petioles 3 to 6 mm long, densely pubes- 
cent. Inflorescence terminal, peduncled, lax, crisped-pubescent, 
the heads 7 to 10, slenderly peduncled, oblong, in anthesis about 
14 mm long. Involucral bracts linear, about 10 mm long, acute, 
sparingly pubescent on the back. 
SIQUIJOR, C. V. Piper 38i, May 9, 1911. 
A species manifestly closely allied to Gynura sarnientosa DC., but 
distinguished at once by its entire or subentire leaves and by its charac- 
teristic indumentum. 
EUPATORIUM L. 
EUPATORIUM JAPONICUM Thunb. FI. Jap. (1784) 308; Forbes & Hemsl. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1888) 403. 
Batanes Islands, Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 3177 
Mearns, May 27, 1907. 
The specimen here referred to Eupatorium japonicum Thunb. has 
leaves up to 12 cm in length and divided quite to the base into three 
segments, even the upper leaves subtending the branches of the inflo- 
rescence being deeply divided. It may be referable to some other species, 
but from the material available here for comparison, and from the de- 
scriptions, I can see no reason for separating it from Thunberg’s species. 
Japan to Formosa and southern China. A distinct northern type in 
the Philippine flora. 
EUPATORIUM CAMIGUINENSE sp. nov. § Eximbricata. 
Herba scandens, caulibus teretibus, leviter pubescentibus ; 
foliis ovatis vel late oblong-ovatis, submembranaceis, usque ad 13 
cm longis, basi late rotundatis, apice longe tenuiter acuminatis, 
margine argute serrato-dentatis, utrinque leviter glandulosis, ad 
costa nervisque pubescentibus; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 
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