PLANTS FROM BATANES AND BABUYANES ISLANDS. 
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from Luzon, and Cuming 124®, in Herb. Kew, the type of Vidal’s species, which 
was from the Province of Ilocos Norte, Luzon, and consider them to be identical, 
and a Morincla, rather than Lucinaea. The same form is found in Formosa, 
Koshun, Kawalcami 1624, distributed as Psychotria serpens Linn. 
Luzon to Formosa. 
SPERMACOCE Dill. 
S. hispida Linn. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3708 Fenix. 
Throughout the Philippines; India to Formosa and Malaya. 
CUCURBITACE2E. 
TRICHOSANTHES Linn. 
T. quinquangulata A. Gray. 
Camiguin, 3989 F6nix. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 
MELOTHRIA Linn. 
M. indica Lour. var. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3694 Fenix. N. v., Simoncaram. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; India to China and Malaya. 
COMPOSITE. 
VERNONIA Schreb. 
V. patula (Dryand.) 
Conyza patula Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 (1789) 184. 
Conyza chinensis Lam. Encycl. 2 (1790) 83, non Linn. 
Cyanthillium pubescens Blume Bijdr. (1826) 890. 
CyanthilUum villosum Blume 1. c. 889. 
Vernonia albicans DC. in Wight Contrib. (1834) 6; Prodr. 5 (1836) 26. 
Vernonia chinensis Less. Linnaea 6 (1831) 105, 674; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 
3 (1881) 235; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1888) 401, non 
Conyza chinensis Linn. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3599 Fenix. 
A common weed throughout the Philippines; Formosa, southern China, Malaya, 
and India. 
The commonly used specific name for this species, chinensis, is invalid being- 
based on Conyza chinensis Lam., non Linn., and accordingly what is 'apparently 
the earliest valid specific name for the species is here adopted. The name patula 
has been used in Vernonia by Martius, but only as a synonym, and does not 
prevent the adoption of Dryander’s specific name for the present species. 
Conyza chinensis Lam., is manifestly this species, and not the same as C. 
chinensis Linn., although the exact identity of the latter is doubtful. From the 
original description I suspected that Linnaeus really described the species here 
considered to be Vernonia patula, but this seems to be not the case. 
The Linnean Herbarium does not clear up the matter, as at my request Mr. B. 
Dayton Jackson, Secretary of the Linnean Society, kindly examined the original 
specimens, and under the date of June 15, 1908, writes as follows: “There are 
three sheets pinned together by Linnfi himself. ( 1 ) Two specimens of the same 
plant, a Blumea, with the note Suratt. At foot of sheet in L’s handwriting 
‘Conyza chinensis.’ (2) A single specimen which matches your specimen ( Verno- 
nia chinensis Less.) ; at the heel of it is written Ard. which means Arduino; a 
ticket in Arduino’s handwriting is attached thus: — No. 27 an Serratula glauca 
