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3. G. oblancifolium n. sp.—A_ perennial, tufted, her- 
baceous, 4 dm. high herb; stems rather slender, in the younger 
state covered with white adpressed woolly hairs, sparsely bran- 
ched, bearing axillary and terminal clusters of flowering heads. 
Leaves mostly radical, linear or oblanceolate, conspicuously 
l-nerved beneath, glabrous above, beneath densely white 
lanose, apex acute or the uppermost long acuminate, the lower 
half slenderly attenuate into a narrow winged petiole, cauline 
ones very similar with exstipulate bases not decurrent. Heads 
6 or more, clustered upon short bracteolate peduncles, the 
subtending leaf and lower bracts usually much exceeding, 
3 to 5 mm. long, 3 mm. in diameter near the base; bracts 
of the involucre mostly thin and glabrous except the short 
acuminate basal ones subtended by long woolly hairs, imbricate 
and of unequal length, the longer ones oblanceolate to acute, 
dark brown on the exposed surfaces; flowers very numerous 
the outer several series only pistillate, the fewer central 
ones perfect; tubular corolla of outer flowers 5 mm. long, 
very slender, truncate or minutely 3-toothed; style arms 
truncate and ultimately recurved; corolla tube of central 
flowers shorter but much thicker, terminated by 5 short 
blunt segments; anthers 1 mm. long, obscurely appendaged 
at apex, base fibrillose; filaments comparatively short, inserted 
upon the middle of the tube; style of these flowers included, 
terminated by small capitate stigmas; pappus uniseriate, 
yellowish white, scabrous under a lens, exceeding the flowers; 
achene finely pubescent, 5 mm. in length, obscurely striate. 
Type specimen 6586, A. D. E. Elmer, is rather abundant 
in open grassy pine regions on Mount Santo Tomas,. prov- 
ince of Benguet, Luzon, June, 1904 at an altitude of 2500 
meters. Strict floral distinction between the genera of 
Antennaria, Anaphalis and Gnaphalium are hard to find, but 
in general appearance our species possesses the Gnaphalium 
habit. 
4. G. indicum Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2; 1200, 1763. DC. 
Prod. 7; 231, 1839. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 92, 1856. Benth. 
Fl. Hongk. 188, 1861: Fl. Austr. 3; 655, 1866. F. Vil. Nov. 
App. 116, 1880. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3; 269, 1881. Forbes 
and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23; 427, 1888. Hayata 
in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 18; Art. 8, 33, 1904. Xeranthemum 
