110 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. I, Art?: 
9. B. wightlana. 
Flowers yellow. 
Panicles with long divaricate branches, 
usually bearing sessile terminal glo- 
merules. 
10. B. manillensis. 
Panicles more approximate, the heads 
scattered and pedunculate. 
fi. B, lacera. 
1. B. laxiflora n. sp.—Suffrutescent shrub, 1 or more 
m. high; branches numerous, subglabrous. Leaves more or 
less clustered toward the ends of the twigs, dry, membranous, 
glabrous on both sides, very unequal in size, alternate, 
lanceolate, the larger ones 3 dm. long and 5 cm. wide across 
the middle, the base slenderly tapering into a 1 to 3 em. long 
petiole, apex acuminate, margins dentately apiculate, the as- 
cending nerves and reticulations equally distinct on both 
sides. Inflorescence lax, terminal, of several very unequal 
paniculate racemes, from 1 to 7 dm. long; its larger branches 
subtended by foliaceous bracts, the peduncles and pedicels 
by very minute strigose bracts; pedicels not numerous, di- 
varicate, from 1 to 2 cm. long, very slender, strigose, minutely 
bracteate, flexuosely deflexed; heads campanulate, 1.5 cm. in 
diameter, 1 cm. high, solitary and subpendulous; involucre 
of many series and closely imbricated, persistent; the basal 
bracts sparsely strigose, narrowly acute or acuminate; the 
miner ones equalling the pappus, finely scarious, linear, ter- 
minating into soft and slender setae; corolla yellow, 5 mm. 
long, slenderly tubular except toward the apex which is 
slightly inflated and terminated by 3 short acute teeth; 
stamens 5, included; style exerted, divided into filiform arms; 
achene barely 1 mm. in length, subterete, finely striate and 
strigose; pappus soft, dense, nearly equal, reddish brown, 4 
mm. long. 
Type specimen 8231, A. D. E. Elmer, Los Bafios, Prov- 
ince of Laguna, Luzon, May, 1906. Related to B. spectabilis DC. 
2. B. appendiculata (Blm.) DC. Prod. 5; 447, 1836. F. 
Vil. Nov. App. 115, 1880. Conyza appendiculata Blm. Bijd. 
