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head; corolla 5 mm long, enlarged above, the teeth 5, ovate, acute or 

 obtuse, less than 0.5 nmi long; anthers 2 mm long, the tails very slender, 

 less than 0.55 mm in length; style-arms stout, blunt, 0.5 mm long. Disk 

 pitted, glabrous or with very few, short, scattered hairs. 



MiNDORO, For. Bur. 11021 Merritt, March, 1908 (type), the specimen from 

 the southwestern part of the island; also For. Bur. 11016 Merritt from Mount 

 Sablayan, exposed summit of the mountain at edge of the forest, altitude about 

 970 m, March 2, 1908. 



A species characterized by its comparatively large heads which are glomerate 

 on the ultimate panicle-branches. Among the Philippine species it is probably 

 most closely allied to Bhimea mindanaensis Merr. 



Blumea longipes sp. nov. 



Herba erccta ramosa, usque ad 80 cui alta; foliis oblongo-obovatis vol 

 oblongo-oblanccolatis, submembranaceis, usque ad 10 cm longis, petiolatis, 

 acutis vel rotundatis, basi sensim angustatis, plus minus repando-dentatis, 

 vix lobatis; paniculis diffusis, ramis ranmlisque glandulosis, pedunculis 

 solitariis, gracilibus, usque ad 2.5 cm longis; capitulis 0.8 cm longis. 



An erect, much branched, aromatic herb about 80 cm in height. Stems 

 stout, brownish or purplish, slightly striate, more or less puberulent, 

 ultimately nearly glabrous, 5 mm in diameter or less. Leaves oblong- 

 obovate to oblong-oblanceolate, submembranaceous, the apex rounded or 

 acute, the base gradually narrowed, the margins somewhat repand-dentate 

 but not lobed, those of the stem 7 to 10 cm long, 1.5 to 3 cm wide, those 

 of the branches often much smaller and usually more pubescent. Pani- 

 cles rather diffuse, the branches and branchlets slender, mostly densely 

 glandular and often also somewhat pubescent, the peduncles solitary, 0.5 

 to 2.5 cm long, slender, glandular. Heads 7 to S mm long, about 1 cm 

 in diameter. Involucral bracts many-seriate, the outer ones about 2 mm 

 long, 0.5 mm wide, the inner gradually longer, the innermost 5 mm long 

 and 0.5 mm wide, the outer ones usually prominently glandular, the 

 innermost ones ciliate above and slightly glandular in the median por- 

 tion. Flowers yellow, heterogamous, the outer ones pistillate, indefi- 

 nite, many-seriate; achenes minute, 1 mm long, slightly angled, very 

 obscurely pubescent with few, short, scattered hairs ; pappus hairs slender, 

 white, minutely scabrid, 3 mm long; corolla slender, cylindric,- 4 mm 

 long, vei7 obscurely 3-toothed ; style exserted, the arms filiform, less than 

 1 mm long. Disk-flowers perfect, about 14; achene like that of the 

 pistillate flowers but stouter; corolla enlarged above, 5-toothed, the teetli 

 0.5 mm long, acute, slightly glandular; stamens 2 mm long, the tails 

 minute, less tban 0.5 mm long; style-arms about 0.8 mm long, slender. 

 Disk glabrous, pitted. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao. Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 893 (type), January. 

 1907; also unnumbered specimens collected in May and June. 



A species growing in the open grass lands about Lake Lanao, characterized 

 by its very glandular inflorescence and by its long-peduncled heads. 



