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254 MERRILL. 
Outer involucral scales suborbicular, less than 1 mm long, pubescent, the 
inner ones gradually longer, the innermost less pubescent, deciduous, 2 to 
2.5 mm long, obtuse. Achenes 3 or 4 in each involucre, when mature 
nearly terete, when young more distinctly angled, 2 to 2.4 mm long, 
sometimes distinctly waxy-glandular, at other times with very few, 
scattered, short hairs; pappus bristles stiff, about 30, 4 to 4.5 mm long, 
with numerous shorter ones less than 1 mm long intermixed. 
| Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Merrill 3200, Williams 420 
| (type), Elmer 6695, Whitford s. n., summit of the mountain, altitude about 
1,400 m: Province of Tayabas, Mount Malaraya, For. Bur. 7841, 7844 Curran & 
Merritt, November, 1907, altitude about 1,000 m. 
A species like the preceding allied to Vernonia arborea Ham., differing in being 
nearly glabrous and especially in its much narrower, smaller, lanceolate leaves 
| which are glandular beneath. It is manifestly allied to the preceding species but 
' has very much larger leaves, 
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BLUMEA Dc. 
Blumea confertiflora sp. nov. 
Herba erecta, robusta, circiter 1 m alta; foliis sessilibus, basi angus- 
tatis, plus minus decurrentibus, oblongo-ellipticis vel oblongo-obovatis, 
usque ad 12 em longis, subcoriaceis, breviter acuminatis, margine irreg- 
ulariter sinuato-denticulatis ; capitulis circiter 1 cm diametro, in ramulis 
ultimis densissime congestis, sessilibus vel breviter pedunculatis. 
An erect, robust herb about 1 m high. Stems stout, dark-brown or 
purplish, longitudinally striate, more or less pubescent, apparently un- 
branched, except the inflorescence. Leaves sessile, oblong-elliptic to 
oblong-oboyate, the apex shortly acuminate, the base gradually narrowed, 
| the margins irregularly sinuate-denticulate with small teeth, not at all 
| lobed, 6 to 12 cm long, 2.5 to 4 em’ wide, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, 
: slightly shining when dry, somewhat pubescent with short hairs on both 
| surfaces, paler beneath; nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib; leaf- 
bases sometimes decurrent along the stem for 2 to 3. em. Panicle-branches 
rather few, the lower ones up to 40 cm long and subtended by leaves, 
| ascending, the secondary ones very short, mostly less than 1 cm long, 
pubescent, each bearing numerous, densely disposed heads which are ses- 
sile or shortly peduncled. Heads 8 to 9 mm long, about 1 cm in diameter. 
Involucral bracts many-seriate, the outer ones oblong-ovate to oblong- 
lanceolate, about 2 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, pubescent, the inner ones 
gradually longer, the innermost about 6 mm long, 0.5 to 1 mm wide, 
slightly hairy, acuminate, the margins toward the apex more or less 
| ciliate. Flowers yellow, heterogamous, the outer ones indefinite (more 
than 100), pistillate; achenes 1 to 1.2 mm long, somewhat angled, slightly 
| hairy ; pappus hairs about 20, white, slender, scabrid, 5 mm long; corolla 
cylindric, slender, 5 mm long, minutely 3-toothed ; style-arms slender, 
exserted, less than 1 mm long. Disk-flowers perfect, about 14 in each 
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