442 
MERRILL. 
GYNURA Cass. 
G. elliptica Yabe & Hayata in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo 18 s (1904) 25, pi. 2. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3691 Fenix. Sabtan, Petrelli, s. n. 
Previously known only from Formosa, tlie specimens cited above agreeing well 
with the description and plate. 
EMILIA Cass. 
Emilia sonchifolia (Linn.) DC. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 311/6, 3180, 3182 M earns ; 3593 Fenix. Cami- 
guin, 1/020 Fenix. 
A widely distributed and variable weed in the Philippines; warm and tropical 
parts of the Old World, introduced into the New. 
LACTUCA Linn. 
L. dentata (Thunb.) C. B. Robins, in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 218. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 361/5 Fenix. 
Throughout the Philippines at higher altitudes; Japan and Formosa. 
L. squarrosa (Thunb.) Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 2 (1856) 189. 
Prenanthes squarrosa Thunb. FI. Jap. (1784) 303. 
Prenanthes laciniata Iioutt. Nat. Hist. 28 (1779) 381, t. 66, f. 1, non Lactuca 
laciniata Roth. 
Lactuca laciniata Makino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 17 (1903) 88, non Roth. 
Lactuca hrevirostris Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. 4 (1852) 237. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3671/ Fenix. 
Northern India to Manchuria, Japan, Formosa, southern China and the 
Philippines. 
CREPIS Linn. 
Crepis japon ica (Linn.) Benth. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3187, 311/6a Mearns. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines at medium and higher altitudes; Japan 
to southern China, India and Australia. 
