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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANy [Vor. I, Arr. E 
with yellowish brown hairs. Leaves alternate, numerous 
along the stem, ascending, oblanceolate, subsessile, shortly 
pubescent especially on the nerves beneath, harsh with fine 
tubercles on the entire upper surface, apex acute, base acum- 
inate, margins dentate, those on the branches of the in- 
florescence quite numerous and reduced. Inflorescence pan- 
iculate, widely branched, rather rigid; peduncles and pedicels 
spreading, densely pubescent, subtended by ovate to linear 
bracts, divaricately spreading; heads solitary upon 8 mm. long 
pedicels, 1 cm. long, at least that in diameter across the top, 
campanulate, loosely spreading when fully mature; bracts of 
the involucre very unequal, several seriate, purplish along 
the margins and at the tips, the apex rounded or obtuse, 
broadly linear, brown pubescent on the exposed exterior sur- 
faces, otherwise glabrous; ligulate flowers not numerous, 10 
to 15 mm. long; corolla 8 mm. long, the thin slender tube 
4 mm. long and glabrous; ligule proper blue, equally ta- 
pering at both ends, bearing from its throat an exerted 2-cleft 
style; the achenes 2 mm. long, roundish, flattened, narrowly 
ellipsoid or obovoid, pubescent; pappus 5 mm. long, of 
scabrous brown bristles; disk flowers tubular, 12 to 15 mm. 
long; tube of corolla 8 mm. long, the lower halt subcam- 
panulate and terminated by 5 bluish 2 mm. long circinately 
acuminate segments; anthers 2.5 mm. long, apex acute, base 
rounded or obscurely sagittate; slender filaments inserted at 
the middle of the tube; style much exerted, its short sub- 
compressed arms acute; achenes 2 mm. long, slightly pubescent, 
3-costate, cuneate. 
Type specimen 6251, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Santo 
Tomas, Province of Benguet, Luzon, May, 1904. It is quite 
common in grassy pine forests of 2,300 meters altitude, and 
is related to A. trinervius Roxb. which extends as far south as 
Formosa and which has lanceolate triplinerved leaves, glabrous 
stems and reddish pappus. 
14. MICROGLOSSA DC. 
Slender erect or climbing shrubs, with alternate entire 
leaves and corymbose or paniculate inflorescence. Heads small, 
heterogamous; ray flowers pistillate, fertile, the ligule minute, 
white; involuere campanulate, its bracts numerous; anther 
