112 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY VoL- L Ax 
rather dense flat topped panicle; basal involucral bracts 
short, persistent, usually pubescent, the inner ones linear, 
ultimately recurved, glabrous. Corolla yellow; achene short, 
strigose pubescent; pappus bristles equal in length, copious, 
yellowish brown. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
British India. 
MINDANAO: 
San Ramon, Province of Zamboanga, May 1904, Cope- 
land 791. 
4. B. balsamifera (Linn.) DC. Prod. 5; 447, 1846. F. Vil. 
Nov. App. 115, 1880. Naves in Fl. Filip. ed. 3; 408, 1880. 
Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3; 270, 1881. Vid. Sinop. Atlas, t. 58. 
1883: Cat. Pl. Prov. Manila, 34, 1880: Phan. Cuming. Filip. 
121, 1885. Mart. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 15; 293, 1883. Vid. 
Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip. 161, 1886. Forbes and Hemsl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Bot, 23; 420, 1888. Hayata in Journ. Coll. Sci. 
Tokyo 18; Art. 8, 30, 1904. King and Gamb. Mat. Fl. Malay, 
Penin. 16; 33, 1905. Conyza balsamifera Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 
2; 1208, 1763. Bico. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 628, 1837. Mig: Fl. 
Ind. Bat. 2; 55, 1856. B. glomerata DC. in F. Vil. Nov. 
App. 115, 1880.—A strongly aromatic suffrutescent perennial, 
2 to 3 m. high. Leaves entire or serrate, lanceolate, silky 
canescent beneath, subglabrous or only slighlty pubescent above. 
Heads forming a corymbose panicle, the peduneles short, silky 
pubescent; involueral bracts densely pubescent, unequal, im- 
bricate; corolla yellow; pappus copious, very slender, yellowish 
white to reddish brown. 
DISTRIBUTION : 
India, Malay and Japan. 
PHILIPPINE: 
1894-5, Marave 186. 
1836-41, Cuming 993. 
Luzon: 
Bauang, Province of Union, February 1904, Elmer 5614. 
