«986 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY . [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 ^ 
some of the leaves oblong; midrib darker brown or nearly 
black in the dry state, appearing flat beneath and a trifle 
ridged along the upper surface; lateral nerves 4 to 6 on 
each side, very much ascending and slightly curved, similar 
in appearance to the midrib but less prominent, occasional- 
ly forked and terminating in the teeth, cross bars or retic- 
ulations none; petiole 0.75 to 1.25 em long, compressed, sim- 
ilarly pubescent. Inflorescence ascending, terminal, 1 to 2 
dm long, toward the base subtended by small leaves, only 
occasionally divaricately branched; the bud cluster rather 
congested toward the distal end of the peduncle or lateral 
branches, ultimately laxly spreading, the green stalks crink- 
ly olivaceus hairy when dry; branches few, rebranched to- 
ward their distal ends; subtended by laciniate 1 cm long 
bracts; flowers above the middle, upon very slender 1 to 2 
cm long puberulent pedicels, provided at the base by smaller 
bracts and with a few scattering bracteoles, all green when ^ 
fresh; heads 17.5 mm high, not numerously flowered, 1 cm Ay 
across the top of the involucre, green below the middle, 
atropurpureus otherwise, deeply cup shaped or campanu- 
lately elongated, mainly composed of 2 series of bracts; the 
basal bracts varying in length from small mere bracts 
to 5 mm, 0.75 mm wide, bluntly obtuse at the apex, coria- 
ceous, strigose, imbricate but ultimately recurved; the inner 
or erect bracts 1 cm long, linear, almost 2 mm wide 
though subequal in width, folded upon the glabrous ventral 
side, obtuse at the apex, the middle portion much thinner 
or subhyaline, remaining straight when old; receptacle flat 
and circularly pitted; florets all discoid; pappus 1 cm long, 
very numerous and finely hairy, silky, with many intermix- 
ed shorter ones, exceedingly fine scabrid except toward the 
base; corolla dark ruber red, 14 cm long, glabrous, the 
apical 8 mm as well as the basal 1 mm enlarged, other- 
wise slender toward their distal ends, 2 mm long; style 
slender, knob-like at the base; the 2 stigma lobes exerted, 
linear, -3 to 5 mm long, slightly puberulent along the up- 
per or stigmatic surface; stamens included; filaments less 
than 2 mm long, inserted upon the basal portion of the | 
cylindrically enlarged corolla; anthers syngenecious, 2.5 mm ^ E. 
long at least, acute at the apex, truncate at the base, very ; 
