Avaust 16, 1906] MANUAL OF THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSITAE IM 
895, 1825-6. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 56, 1856.—Suffrutescent 
shrubs, 1 m. high or less, its smaller branches yellowish 
adpressed pubescent. Leaves in subwhorls, subtending the 
inflorescence, obovate to oblanceolate, membranous, ap- 
iculately serrate, soft puberulent and sparsely yellowish 
pubescent beneath, the smaller lanceolate, subglabrous and 
slightly scabrous on the upper surface of the old leaves, 1 
to 3 dm. long, 5 to 8 cm. wide, apex acute to acuminate, 
base gradually tapering, the 9 to 12 pairs of nerves faint. 
Inflorescence a large elongated panicle, 2 to 3 dm. long, 
1.5 dm. wide; its branches spreading, 1 dm. long or less, 
soft pubescent, flower bearing above the middle, subtended 
by pubescent foliaceous bracts; branchlets slender, bearing 
from 1 to 3 heads; peduncle with a single head, subflexuose, 
1 to 2 em. long, minutely bracteate; involucral bracts num- 
erous, very unequal in length, straw colored, narrowly linear, 
finely pubescent, ultimately spreading, the longer ones 1 cm. 
in length, persistent; heads 1.5 cm. in diameter, 1 cm. high; 
flowers many, perfect, yellow; corolla tubular, 7 mm. long 
including the 5 acute segments which are somewhat glan- 
dular and sparsely strigose on the outer side; anthers 3 to 
4 mm. long, linear, apex rounded, bases extended into bristle 
like tails; style barely exceeding, slender, subglabrous, with 
2 linear stigmatic arms which have truncate apices; achene 
1.5 mm. long, 10-costate, compressed, silkily pubescent; pap- 
pus yellowish white, bristle like, unequal in length, finely 
scabrous, longer ones 6 mm. long. 
DisTRIBUTION: 
Java. 
PHILIPPINES: 
Luzon and Paragua. 
| 3. B. densiflora DC. Prod. 5; 446, 1836. F. Vil. Nov. 
App. 115, 1880. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3; 269, 1881.—4 suf- 
irutescent much branched aromatie species. Leaves oblan- 
ceolate, coarsely toothed, puberulent or minutely pubes- 
cent above, yellowish pubescent and conspicuously nerved 
beneath. Heads subsessile, large, not numerous, crowded at 
the ends of the woolly pubescent peduncles and forming a 
