ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 
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COMPOSITE. 
CONYZA Linn. 
Conyza japonica (Thumb.) Less. Syn. Comp. (1832) 204. 
Blumea copelandii Elmer Leaf!. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 359. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, between Baguio and Sablan, Williams 1467 ; 
Baguio, Elmer 8400 ; Pauai, Bur. Sci. 4332 M earns ; without specific locality, 
Bur. Sci. 2814 Mearns. Also ( fide E. D. Merrill) represented in the Kew Her- 
barium by Loher 3630, 3647 , both also from Benguet. 
EMILIA Cass. 
Emilia javanica (Bunn.) comb. nov. 
Hieracium javanicum Burm. El. Ind. (1768) 174, pi. 57, f. 1. 
Prenanthes javanica Willd. Sp. PI. 3 (1804) 1534. 
Emilia flammea Cass. Diet. Sci. Nat. 14 (1819) 406; Atlas 3 (1819?) pi. 5. 
( 64 : pi, 91.) 
Cacalia sagittata Vahl Symb. 3 (1794) 91. 
Emilia sagittata DC. Prodr. 6 (1837) 302. 
Cacalia coccinea Sims Bot. Mag. 1 6 (1803) pi. 564- 
This species is represented in the collections of the Bureau of Science by the 
following specimens : 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Williams 1438, Bur. Sci. 2789 Mearns: Province 
of Zambales, Mount Tapulao, Bur. Sci. 4786 Ramos: Province of Bataan, Lamao 
River, Elmer 6668, 6999, Merrill 3944, Bur. Sci. 1594 Foxworthy, For. Bur. 2116 
Borden, For. Bur. 2175 Meyer. Mindanao, Cotabato, Copeland. 
Emilia prenanthoidea DC. Prodr. 6 (1837) 303. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Williams 1430. Mindanao, Province of 
Misamis, Mount Malindang, For Bur. 4315 Mearns d- Hutchinson ; Lake Lanao, 
Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 140, and an unnumbered specimen. 
This species has not hitherto been reported from the Philippines. It is 
extremely similar to the preceding in general appearance, but is distinguished by 
its glabrous achenes. 
EUPATORIUM Linn. 
Eupatorium benguetense sp. nov. 
Herba; inflorescentia eorymbosa, eapitulis 5-floris, involucri bracteis 
4-seriatis, inaequalibus, obtusis ; foliis lanceolatis vel ovatis, basi ro- 
tundatis vel acutis, apice subacutis. 
Flowers forming a sessile or more rarely a peduncled, leafy-bracted, 
terminal corymb 2-6 cm long, the rachises of all orders ferruginous- 
tomentose, the heads 5-flowered; involucral bracts purple, 15-20, im- 
bricated in 4 series of very unequal length, the outer 1-2.5 mm long, 
suborbicular, the innermost 4.5— 5.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, oblanceolate, 
all rounded at the apex, the outermost pubescent along the middle of 
the outer surface and sometimes c i 1 i ate, the margins more or less trans- 
parent; pappus very pale-yellowish, 3.5-4 mm long, somewhat copious, 
