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MERRILL. 
scabridis ; inflorescentiis angustatis, ramiilis distantibus, 1 ad 
3 cm longis ; capitulis circiter 10 mm longis, sessilibus vel breviter 
pedunculatis, subfasciculatis ; floribus flavidis; disco piloso. 
An erect herb about 1 m high, the stems striate, pubescent, 
about 4 mm in diameter. Leaves oblong-obovate to oblong- 
oblanceolate, 7 to 12 cm long, 2 to 4.5 cm wide, the upper ones 
gradually smaller, sessile, rather prominently lyrately lobed, 
acute or acuminate, base narrowed, not decurrent, the lower 
surface rather softly pilose, the upper surface scabrid, slightly 
hairy. Inflorescence a terminal, slender, interrupted, pubescent, 
leafy panicle, 15 to 30 cm long, the branches 1 to 3 cm long in 
the axils of reduced leaves. Heads about 1 cm long, somewhat 
crowded on the branchlets, sessile or shortly peduncled. Bracts 
several-seriate, pubescent, the outer ones 1.5 to 2 mm long, 
oblong-ovate, the innermost about 7 mm long and 0.8 mm wide. 
Achenes 1 mm long, hispid; pappus white, scabrid, about 5 mm 
long. Disk-flowers perfect, about 12 in each head, yellow, the 
corolla-tube enlarged above, about 7 mm long, 1.5 mm in diameter, 
5-toothed. Female flowers marginal, many, slender, 5 to 5.5 
mm long, about 0.3 mm in diameter, 3-toothed. Disk somewhat 
pilose. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Bauco, Vanoverbergh 1063, February 9, 
1911, altitude about 1,300 m. 
A species characterized by its narrow, elongated, leafy panicles, and its 
lyrately lobed, coriaceous leaves which are pilose beneath and scabrid on 
the upper surface. It is somewhat anomalous in Bhimea on account of its 
distinctly pilose, not glabrous disk, in this character approaching the very 
closely allied genus Merrittia. 
VERNONIA Schreb. 
Vernonia phanerophlebia sp. nov. § Strobocalyx. 
Frutex erectus circiter 2 m altus; foliis oblongo-obovatis, 
breviter obtuse acuminatis, usque ad 7 cm longis, crassissime 
coriaceis, nitidis, pagina inferiore prominente glanduloso-punc- 
tatis, nervis utrinque 7 ad 10, prominentibus ; corymbis 
terminalibus, parvis, congestis, capitulis 7- vel 8-floris, squamis 
imbricatis, distincte pubescentibus ; achaenio 2.5 mm longo, 
glanduloso. 
An erect shrub about 2 m high. Branches terete, striate when 
dry, somewhat lenticellate, glabrous, the branchlets distinctly 
appressed-pubescent. Leaves very thickly coriaceous, oblong- 
obovate, entire, 3.5 to 7 cm long, 1 to 2.5 cm wide, shining when 
dry, of about the same color on both surfaces or slightly paler 
beneath, the upper surface glabrous, the lower appressed- 
