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long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, the apex acute, the base gradually narrowed, 
slightly clasping, the margins rather finely denticulate, the upper surface 
with numerous, somewhat stiff hairs more or less thickened at the base, 
the lower surface very densely covered with long, grayish, silky hairs; 
nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib. Panicles terminal, about 40 
cm long, the lower branches 10 cm long or more, often subtended by 
reduced leaves, the rachis and branches pilose. Heads somewhat racem- 
osely arranged, 9 to 10 mm long, about 12 mm in diameter, their peduncles 
3 to 10 mm long. Involucral bracts many-seriate, the outer ones ovate to 
oblong, acuminate, 1 to 2 mm long, the inner gradually longer, the 
innermost ones linear-oblong, 6 to 7 mm long, 1 mm wide, the interme- 
diate ones somewhat wider, all somewhat pubescent on the back, more 
or less 1-nerved, the margins, especially above, more or less ciliate. 
Eeceptacle glabrous, somewhat pitted. Flowers heterogamous, the outer 
ones pistillate, many-seriate, about 40 in each head, yellow, the achenes 
slender oblong, pubescent, obscurely angled, 1 to 1.2 mm long; pappus- 
hairs about 30, white, slender, seabrid, 4.5 mm long; corolla-tube slender, 
cylindric, 4 mm long, obscurely 3-toothed; style-arms exserted, slender, 
1 to 1.5 mm long. Disk-flowers perfect, about 11 in each head; achenes 
like those of the pistillate flowers but stouter; corolla 5.5 mm long, 
enlarged above, 5-toothed, the teeth ovate, acute, nearly 1 mm long; 
anthers 2 mm long, apex appendiculate, base with two minute, slender, 
0.5 mm long tails; style exserted, the arms 0.5 mm long, stout, truncate. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Mount Tapulao, Bur. Sci. 5089 Ramos, Decem- 
ber 14, 1907. 
A species apparently closely allied to Blumea sericans Hook, f., and to 
B. hieracifolia DC., but so far as I can determine from the material and descrip- 
tions available here, distinct from both. It is characterized by its minutely 
toothed and very densely silky leaves, suffrutescent stems, the lower portion 
leafless and more or less covered with persistent petiole-bases. In many respects 
it appears to agree with Inula § Gappa as closely as with Blumea, and may 
eventually have to be referred to the former genus. The characters by which 
Inula § Gappa is separated from Blumea do not appear to me to be well defined. 
