NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 
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head; corolla 5 mm long, enlarged above, the teeth 5, ovate, acute or 
obtuse, less than 0.5 mm 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 Blumea mindanaensis Merr. 
Blumea longipes sp. nov. 
Herba erecta ramosa, usque ad 80 cm alta; foliis oblongo-obovatis vel 
oblongo-oblanceolatis, submembranaceis, usque ad 10 cm longis, petiolatis, 
acutis vel rotundatis, basi sensim angustatis, plus minus repando-dentatis, 
vix lobatis; paniculis diffusis, ramis ramulisque 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, submembranaeeous, the apex rounded or 
acute, the base gradually narrowed, the margins somewhat repand-dentate 
but not lobed, those of the stem 1 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 8 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, very 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 teeth 
0.5 mm. long, acute, slightly glandular; stamens 2 mm long, the tails 
minute, less than -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. 
