2582 LEAFLETS OF Pauireoe BorANY [VoL. VII, Arr 114 
brown or nearly black in the dry state, their tips anastomos- 
ing, reticulations plain yet much less prominent beneath; 
petiole glabrous, 1 cm long, plane on the upper side. 
Infrutescence ascending, 7 to 14 cm long, arising beneath 
the foliage; spikes unbranched, glabrous, rather slender; fruits 
few, hard, green, smooth, fusiformly ellipsoid, sessile, at 
right angles to the spike, apex more tapering to a fine 
point, 5 cm long, 3 cm thick, the green fibrous meat enclosing 
a large stony nut and which contains a flattened seed. 
Type specimen number 11873, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
This fine species is here and there scattered in rich soil 
of. dense forests at about 4000 feet altitude of mount Calelan 
and elsewhere. Dedicated to E. D. Merrill. It is well known 
to the Bagobos as “Samulocco”” and its nuts are eaten by them. 
Leaves more strongly nerved and reticulated, fruits larger 
and more tapering than in Terminalia pellucida Presl. 
COMPOSITAE 
4% Blumea subsericans Elm. n. sp. 
Strict bi or perennials; stems erect, sparingly branched, 
terete, yellowish green, 1 m high or more or less, finely 
striate longitudinally, the upper portion whitish  floccose. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, ascending, green on the upper tomentose 
and slightly conduplicate surface, beneath grayish white 
lanose or subsericeous, exceedingly variable in size, in the 
young state more numerous at the base but soon withering, 
even the basal cauline ones ultimately disappearing, 8 cm 
long for the larger persisting cauline ones, obovately elonga- 
ted, the upper ones less than one half as large, 3 to 4 
cm across above the middle, irregularly toothed or lyrately 
lobed especially toward the base, the serratures or lobules 
themselves usually toothed, sessile, buds or reduced leaves 
in their axils, apex rounded or frequently obtuse, smaller 
lamina oblong and widest across the middle or toward the 
base; midrib conspicuous on the nether side especially toward 
the base, densely lanose; lateral nerves less conspicuous, 
strict, ascending, 5 to 8 on a side, cross reticulations not 
