2584 : LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 114 
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Eupatorium catense Elm. n. sp. 
Seandent shrub; stem soft, terete, freely rebranched, 1.5 
em thick, covered with smooth light brown bark; branches 
divaricate, usually curved downward, dull umbrinus, short pu- 
bescent, the older longitudinally ridged branches becoming gla- 
brous, all terete. Leaves opposite, soft membranous, much 
duller green above, descending, nearly flat or the slender and 
sharply acuminate tips recurved, base broadly obtuse or 
rounded, the upper leaves much smaller than the lower or 
old ones, entire at the base and apex, otherwise crenately 
toothed, the smallest blades broadly lanceolate, the larger 
ones ovately elongated and 1 dm long by one half as wide 
toward the base, the younger ones umbrinus tomentose be- 
neath, less so above, the old ones pulverulent above, pu- 
berulent and with very minute yellowish glistening glands be- 
neath, curing blackish on both sides, ascending; petiole 1 to 
2.5 cm long, slender, umber brown tomentose, less so when 
old; midrib slightly impressed and pulverulent along the up- 
per surface, rather conspicuous and fulvus or umbrinus pu- 
bescent beneath; lateral nerves 7 to 9, divaricate and more 
numerous toward the base, others ascendingly curved, tips 
reticulately united, the reticulations relatively prominent. In- 
florescence not rigid, odorous, terminating the branchlets, co- 
rymbosely paniculate, 5 to 10 em long and fully as wide 
across the base; the lowest and longer pair of branches sub- 
tended by a small pair of leaves, the upper ones mere 
bracts, rebranched from above the middle, the upper branch- 
lets subopposite and subtended by subulate bracteoles, all 
umber brown tomentose and in the fresh condition slightly 
viscid; pedicels more or less clustered from the distal 
ends of the ultimate branches, 3 to 5 mm long or longer, 
lax and frequently curved, subtended by ciliate 1.5 mm long 
and linear bracteoles, crisply dark brown pubescent; heads 
odorous, 7.5 mm long, subeylindric, 3 mm thick, 4 to 6- 
flowered, all discoid; involucre imbricate, erect but ultimate- 
ly spreading, the basal ones much reduced and crisply hairy, 
dull purplish, acute or subacuminate; the inner or longer 
ones 4 mm long and one fourth as wide, glabrate, concave 
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