359 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. ARr. 16 
Blumea copelandii n. sp.— Biennial herbs, 3 to 5 dm. 
high; stems solitary or sometimes 2 or 3 from the ‘same 
root, unbranched except: toward the inflorescence, soft pu- 
bescent, with scattered leaves. Leaves chiefly radical, mostly 
spreading, the larger ones 6 cm. long, almost 2 cm.’ wide, 
the blade proper oblong or subelliptie, regularly dentate, 
rounded at apex, base extended into a slender decurrent 
petiole,-membranous,. soft pubescent on both sides, the faint 
nerves: much, ascending or subparallel; the cauline leaves 
` smaller and becoming bract like, narrower, but with broad- 
er subclasping cordate or, auriculate heads: Inflorescence 
in terminal .glomerate, heads, usually upon slender 1l to 
3-branched and flexuose peduncles; pedicels very unequal in 
length, as long as 1 em., slender, densely pubescent, sub- 
tended by linear similarly pubescent bracts; flowers subpen- 
dulous, rayless, 7 mm. high, somewhat broader; involucral 
bracts unequal, linear, quite thin, pubescent, with purplish 
tips; disk corollas light yellow especially toward the apex, 
tubular and gradually expanding toward the apex, glabrous, 
4 mm. long, terminated by 5 acute teeth; pappus copius, 
nearly as long, finely scabrous, soft dull white; filaments 
very slender, glabrous; anthers 1 mm. long, linear, with 
acuminate. apices, base abrupt with minute appendages; 
stigma clavate, divided into 2 obtuse lobes, protruded: 
achene much flattened, 1 mm. long, one half as wide, oblong 
or broadest above the middle, straw colored, pulverulent, 
only the edges with conspicuous thickenings. 
` Type specimen 8400, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. On north gravelly steep 
slopes of Mount Bania Tomas at 2250 meters. I take pleasure 
in naming this distinct species after Dr. E. B. Copeland. 
