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MERRILL: 
Outer involucral scales suborbicular, less than 1 mm long, pubescent, the 
inner ones gradually longer, the innermost less pubescent, deciduous, 2 to 
2.5 mm long, obtuse. Achenes 3 or 4 in each involucre, when mature 
nearly terete, when young more distinctly angled, 2 to 2.4 mm long, 
sometimes distinctly waxy-glandular, at other times with very few, 
scattered, short hairs; pappus bristles stiff, about 30, 4 to 4.5 mm long, 
with numerous shorter ones less than 1 mm long intermixed. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Merrill 3200, Williams Jj.20 
(type), Elmer 6695, Whitford s. n., summit of the mountain, altitude about 
1,400 m: Province of Tayabas, Mount Malaraya, For. Bur. 7841, 7844 Curran & 
Merritt, November, 1907, altitude about 1,000 m. 
A species like the preceding allied to Vernonia arborea Ham., differing in being 
nearly glabrous and especially in its much narrower, smaller, lanceolate leaves 
which are glandular beneath. It is manifestly allied to the preceding species but 
has very much larger leaves. 
BLUMEA DC. 
Blumea confertiflora sp. nov. 
Herba erecta, robusta, circiter 1 m alta; foliis sessilibus, basi angus- 
tatis, plus minus decurrentibus, oblongo-ellipticis vel oblongo-obovatis, 
usque ad 12 cm longis, subcoriaceis, breviter acuminatis, margine irreg- 
ulariter sinuato-denticulatis ; capitulis circiter 1 cm diametro, in ramulis 
ultimis densissime eongestis, sessilibus vel breviter pedunculatis. 
An erect, robust herb about 1 m high. Stems stout, dark-brown or 
purplish, longitudinally striate, more or less pubescent, apparently un- 
branched, except the inflorescence. Leaves sessile, oblong-elliptic to 
oblong-obovate, the apex shortly acuminate, the base gradually narrowed, 
the margins irregularly sinuate-denticulate with small teeth, not at all 
lobed, 6 to 12 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, 
slightly shining when dry, somewhat pubescent with short hairs on both 
surfaces, paler beneath; nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib; leaf- 
bases sometimes decurrent along the stem for 2 to 3 cm. Panicle-branches 
rather few, the lower ones up to 40 cm long and subtended by leaves, 
ascending, the secondary ones very short, mostly less than 1 cm long, 
pubescent, each bearing numerous, densely disposed heads which are ses- 
sile or shortly p'eduncled. Heads 8 to 9 mm long, about 1 cm in diameter. 
Involucral bracts many-seriate, the outer ones oblong-ovate to oblong- 
lanceolate, about 2 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, pubescent, the inner ones 
gradually longer, the innermost about 6 mm long, 0.5 to 1 mm wide, 
slightly hairy, acuminate, the margins toward the apex more or less 
ciliate. Flowers yellow, heterogamous, the outer ones indefinite (more 
than 100), pistillate; achenes 1 to 1.2 mm long, somewhat angled, slightly 
hairy; pappus hairs about 20, white, slender, scabrid, 5 mm long; corolla 
cylindric, slendef, 5 mm long, minutely 3-toothed; style-arms slender, 
exserted, less than 1 mm long. Disk-flowers perfect, about 14 in each 
