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comparison between the Philippine and Australian forms, and although 
the plants are not identical in all details, no characters have been noted 
that would warrant distingxiishing the Philippine form from the Australian. 
In our material the length of the capsule varies from 1.5 to 2 cm in 
length, while in the Australian specimens it is usually 2 cm long or a 
little longer. The vegetative and floral characters appear to be identical. 
It is confidently expected that eventually this species will also be found 
in Celebes and in New Guinea. 
The Australian material I have had for comparison is the following: 
Stylidium alsinoides R. Br. Mulgrave River, F. M. Bailey; Cairns, 
E. Betche, August, 1901; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Kimberley District, 
C. W. Nyulasy; Port Darwin, Holtze (var. cordifolia Ewart, White, and 
Wood). 
Stylidium tenerrimum F. Muell. North Australia, between Providence 
Hill and McAdams Range, F. Mueller, October, 1855; without definite 
locality. Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods. 
COMPOSITAE. 
BLUMEA DC. 
BLUMEA TENERA sp. nov. 
Herba erecta, vix vel pauce ramosa, tenera, usque ad 50 cm 
alta, parce pilosa vel subglabra; foliis oblongo-oblanceolatis, 
chartaceis vel subrigidis, subtus parce papilloso-pilosis, 2.5 ad 
8 cm longis, acutis, basi angustatis, subsessilibus, margine dis- 
tanter dentatis, dentibus subrigidis, patulis, spiniformibus ; 
capitulis paucis, paniculatis, pedunculatis, 6 ad 7 mm longis, 
bracteis linearibus, parce pilosis ; pedunculis dense pilosis ; recep- 
taculis nudis; floribus hermaphroditis paucis, corolla 4-dentata. 
A slender, erect, simple or slightly branched herb 20 to 50 
cm high, the stems and branches glabrous or nearly so, less 
than 1.5 mm in diameter. Leaves oblong-oblanceolate, rather 
rigid when dry, sessile or subsessile, 2.5 to 8 cm long, 5 to 17 
mm wide, acute, base gradually narrowed, margins with rather 
distant, spreading, rigid, short, spine-like teeth, not lobed, the 
upper surface slightly hispid when young, scabrid in age, the 
lower surface with few, soft, white, spreading hairs from papil- 
late bases. Upper part of the stem leafless or nearly so. Heads 
few, scattered, paniculate, up to 10 in each panicle, peduncled, 
6 to 7 mm long, the peduncles slender, densely pilose. In- 
volucral bracts green, linear, acute, the outer ones 1 to 2 mm 
long, the inner gradually longer, and the innermost 6 to 7 mm 
long, scarious, slightly hairy or in age nearly glabrous, less than 
0.5 mm wide. Flowers yellow, the outer ones numerous, very 
slender, the corollas about 4 mm long, the styles slightly ex- 
serted; interior perfect flowers few, as long as the female ones. 
