AvavsT 16, 1906] MANUAL or THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSITAE 
LUZON: 
Mount Santo Tomas, Province of Benguet, May 1904, 
Elmer 6281. 
25. GNAPHALIUM LINN. 
Woolly, erect or diffusely branched herbs with alternate 
leaves. Inflorescence corymbose, spicate or racemose; heads 
heterogamous, small; receptacle flat or conic, usually faveolate; 
pistillate flowers many, their filiform corollas minutely 5 
to 4-dentate; central flowers few, perfect, tubular, 5-segmented; 
bases of anthers sagittate, their auricles tailed; achenes not 
costate, obovoid; pappus of a single series of capillary bristles. 
Species 120; in both the old and new worlds. 
Bracts deep yellow. 
1. G. luteo-album. 
Bracts light yellowish. 
2. G. multiceps. 
Bracts not yellow. 
Leaves glabrous above. 
3. G. oblancifolia. 
Leaves pubescent on both sides. 
4. G. indicum. 
1. G. luteo-album Linn. Sp. Pl 851, 1753. DC. Prod. 
6; 230, 1837. Mig. Fl Ind. Bat. 2; 91, 1856. Benth. FI. 
Austr. 3; 653, 1866. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3; 288, 1881. Rolfe 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23; 213, 1885. Vid. Phan. Cuming. 
Filip. 122, 1885. Staff in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 4; 187, 1894. 
Hayata in Journ. Coll. Sei. Tokyo, 18; Art. 8, 32, 1904. G. 
palidum Lam. and G. javanum DC. in F. Vil. Nov. App. 
116, 1880. Mart. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 15; 294, 1883.— 
Erect annuals, 3 to 6 dm. high. Stems usually branched 
from the base, pubescent. Leaves linear or spatulate, obtuse, 
not decurrent, woolly pubescent on both sides, radical and 
cauline. Inflorescence a much branched corymb, terminal; . 
heads crowded upon the distal ends of the lanose branches, 
subsessile; involucre campanulate; bracts persistent, thin, 
nearly all glabrous; corolla yellowish; achene minute, sub- 
glabrous, bearing a yellowish brown pappus. 
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