418 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
8. Oyedaea verbesinoides DC. Prodr. 5: 577. 1836. 
Viguiera acuminata Benth.; Oerst. Naturhist. For. Kjébenhavn Vid. Medd. 1852: 
91. 1852. 
Viguiera macrophylla Benth.; Oerst. Naturhist. For. Kjébenhavn Vid. Medd. 
1852: 92. 1852. 
Oyedaea acuminata Benth. & Hook.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 176. 1881. 
Oyedaea macrophylla Benth. & Hook.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 176. 1881. 
Viguiera drymonia Klatt, Leopoldina 1895: Bot. Beibl. 5. 1895. 
Stout branched shrub or tree, 3 to 8 meters high; branches terete or striatulate, 
densely and usually canescently lanate-pilose or hispid-pilose with incurved hairs, 
their tuberculate bases persistent; leaf blades 7 to 22.5 cm. long, 2 to 9.5 cm. wide, 
ovate to ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, cuneate at base, crenulate-serrulate with 
18 to 40 pairs of mucronulate appressed teeth, triplinerved and reticulate-venose, 
above dull green, often rugulose, somewhat impressed-veined, harshly strizose-pilose 
or tuberculate-strigose, the tuberculate bases of the hairs persistent, beneath rather 
densely and often subcanescently short-pilose or hispid-pilose with soft or roughish, 
spreading to appressed hairs; petioles lanate-pilose to hispid-pilose, 3 to 30 mm. 
long; heads about 2 to 16 at apex of branches, 3.8 to 5.5 cm. wide, irregularly cymose- 
panicled, on densely pilose or tuberculate-hispid-pilose and hispidulous pedicels 
3 to 38 mm. long; disk 1.1 to 1.7 em. high, 1.3 to 1.7 cm. wide; involucre 3 to 4-seriate, 
graduated, 1.1 to 1.6 cm. high, the phyllaries oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, or 
the inner rarely obovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, at base strongly indurate 
and often costate, pale, ciliate and more or less strigillose or tuberculate, the usually ™ 
much longer apex herbaceous, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, tuberculate-strigose 
and strigillose or appressed-pilose, loosely spreading or refiexed: receptacle flat; 
rays 8 to 14, oblong, bidentate or shortly bilobed, pubescent on back, 1.3 to 2.3 em. 
long, 4 to 7 mm. wide; disk corollas very slender, hispidulous on the teeth, 6.5 to 10 
mm. long (tube 2.5 to 4 mm.); pales narrow, with slightly erose or denticulate sides 
above and narrowed acuminate strigillose apex, 8.5 to 14 mm. long; achenes obovate- 
oblong to cuneate-obovate, blackish or mottled, nearly glabrous or sparsely pilose 
or strigose, narrowly or sometimes rather broadly winged, 3.5 to 6.2 mm. long, 1 to 
3.5 mm. wide; awns 2, sometimes with a pair of shorter ones at base, fragile, slender, 
unequal, spinulose, 2.5 to 6.5 mm. long; squamellae about 8 to 12, linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, lacerate-fimbriate, united below into a cup, 0.8 to 2 mm. long. 
Type xwocauty: Vicinity of Caracas, Venezuela. Type collected by Vargas. 
ILLUSTRATION: Deless. Icon. Sel. 4: pl. 34. 1839. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Costa Rica: San José, altitude about 1,300 meters, 1916, Holway 356 (G). Tres 
Rios, altitude about 1,500 meters, 1915, Holway 274 (G). Rodeo de Pacaca, 
1891, Prttier 3300 (G, K, N). Mount Aguacate, altitude 610 meters, 1851, 
Oersted 104 (type of V. macrophylla; K, fragm. G). Irazt, altitude 2,745 
meters, 1851, Oersted 96, 106 (types of V. acuminata; K). Hills above Belmira, 
near Santa Maria de Dota, altitude 1,500 to 1,600 meters, 1898, Tonduz 11644 
(G, K, N). Savannas of Boruca, 1891, Pittier 4523 (G). Forests of Boruca, 
1891, Pittier 4528 (N). Border of forests, Cafias Gordas, altitude 1,100 meters, 
1893, Pittier 7351 (type of V. drymonia; G); in 1897, Pittier 11044 (G, N), 
11047 (G). 
Panama: Boquete, 1849, Seemann 1590 (K, fragm. G). Among bushes, pastures 
around El Boquete, altitude 1,000 to 1,300 meters, 1911, Pittier 2948 (N). 
Cotomnia (?): ‘‘New Grenada,”’ 1842-43, Linden 1511 (B, fragm. G). ° 
VENEZUELA: Caracas, Burchell (G, K). Savannas, altitude 1,000 to 1,400 meters, 
Middle Cotiza, near Caracas, 1917, Pittier 7048 (N). Savannas, Upper Cotiza, 
above 1,400 meters, near Caracas, 1917, Pittier 7561 (N). Lower Catuche, 
