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acuminate, hairy; receptacle glabrous; corolla yellow; achenes 
glabrous, obscurely 4-angled. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
China, Malay Islands, India and in tropical Africa. 
LUZON: 
Bacolor, Province of Pampanga, May 1904, Parker 44. 
Rosales, Province of Pangasinan, May 1902, Merrill 
ET. 
MINDORO: 
Baco River, April to May 1905, McGregor 115. 
CULION: 
February 1903, Merrill 672. 
21. LAGGERA SCHULTZ. BIP. 
Chiefly perennial herbs with alternate decurrent leaves, 
and heterogamous, paniculate or axillary heads. Bracts of the 
campanulate involucre numerous, unequal, imbricate. Recep- 
tacle flat, naked. Outer flowers pistillate and fertile, num- 
erous, filiform, the central ones tubular, perfect, 5-toothed. 
Anther bases unequally obtuse. Style arms flattened. 
Species 10; chiefly African, a few in tropical Asia. 
1. L. alata (DC.) Schultz. Bip. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
39; 94, 1873. F. Vil. Nov. App. 116, 1880. Hook. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. 3; 281, 1881. Vid. Phan. Cuming. Filip. 122, 1885: Rev. PI. 
Vase. Filip. 162, 1886. Forbes and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. 23; 422, 1888. Blumea alata DC. Prod. 5; 448, 1836. 
Conyza tetraptera Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 24; 178, 
1851. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 1078, 1856. Blumea tetraptera 
Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21; 313, 1884.—A rigid 
erect perennial, with finely dentate sessile leaves, densely cov- 
ered with short brown hairs, narrowly oblong, the mid- 
vein prominent, the lateral ones irregularly anastomosing. 
Heads on axillary bracteate peduncles, ultimately subpend- 
ulous. Outer involucral bracts rather broad, pubescent, the 
inner ones linear, glabrous, equalling the flowers.  Achenes 
