2592 LEAFLETS OF PAILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 114 
tomentose along the ascendingly curved tips. Leaves alter- 
nate, mostly descending, submembranous, nearly flat except 
the sharply acute to acuminate usually united and recurved’ 
apex, base broadly obtuse and frequently a trifle inequi- 
lateral, the smaller ones broadly lanceolate or only seldom 
oblanceolate, the larger elongated lamina 1.5 dm long by 
4.5 cm wide across the middle, paler green beneath, the 
upper side minutely pulverulent or puberulent but soon be- 
coming glabrate, beneath puberulent especially aiong the 
midrib and nerves, curing dull brown on both sides, the 
upper or terminal leaves much reduced; petiole slender, 
subolivaceus short tomentose, 1 to 3 cm long, subterete and 
caniculate along the upper side; midrib pronounced beneath, 
narrowly caniculate along the upper leaf surface, similarly 
pubescent or tomentose, lateral nerves 7 to 9 on each side 
in the average blades, ascendingly curved, coarsely interarch- 
ing or reticulately united, secondary ones from the midrib, 
reticulations coarse and quite evident from beneath. Inflores- 
cence terminal and from the uppermost leaf axils, paniculate, 
erect or suberect, lax, 1.5 dm across the base and 2 dm 
long or longer; peduncle not strictly evident, the lower 
branches subtended by reduced leaves or the lower inflores- 
cences arising from the uppermost leaf axils; branches 
strictly ascending, yellowish green, short olivaceous tomen- 
tose, slender, the longer 1 dm long, rebranched from above 
the middle, the branchlets similarly rebranched; pedicels al- 
ternatingly clustered toward the distal end of the ultimate 
branches, 3 to 5 mm long, densely yellowish brown tomen- 
tose, subtended by minute bracteoles; flowers profuse, slightly 
fragrant; involucral bracts imbricate, the outer ones 1 mm 
long, the inner ones 2.5 mm long by 1 mm wide, all el- 
liptic, densely grayish pubescent on the outside, the inner 
one chiefly so toward the apex; receptacle flat, small, ap- 
parently glabrous; flowers 4 in a head, rayless, all fertile 
and tubular, erect; achenes 1.5 mm long, 1 mm wide across 
the truncate apex, narrowed toward the base, somewhat an- 
gular and striate, puberulent; pappus dull creamy white, 
5 to 6 mm long, equal, very slender from the base though 
a trifle thicker and minutely scabrous above the middle, 
subpersistent; corolla 7 mm long, tubular, 1.5 mm thick 
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