BLAKE—NEW PLANTS FROM VENEZUELA, 533 
1.8 cm. long, white, glabrous outside except for the sparsely hispidulous teeth, 
with a pilose ring within below the insertion of the stamens, the cylindric 
tube 7 mm. long, the slenderly funnelform throat 7 mm. long, the 5 lanceolate 
acutish teeth 4.8 mm. long; style 18 mm. long, deeply 2-lobed, the lobes hairy ; 
stamens exserted, the filaments glabrous, the anthers 3 mm. long. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1,065,087, collected in hilly 
forests at Guaremales, along road from Puerto Cabello to San Felipe, Carabobo, 
Venezuela. altitude 10 to 100 meters, July 2, 1920, by H. Pittier (mo, 8911). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMEN EXAMINED: 
VENEZUELA: Valley of Patanemo, east of Puerto Cabello, altitude 10 to 
250 meters, December, 1919, Pittier 8653. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 42.—Evea lucentifolia, from the type specimen, Natural size. 
ASTERACEAE. 
Oliganthes hypochlora Blake, sp. nov. 
Shrub or tree; branches densely and finely sordid-tomentulose, in age glabrate 
and gray-barked; leaves alternate; petioles slender, naked, 1 to 2 em. long, 
densely and finely sordid- or cinereous-tomentulose ; blades broadly ovate or 
ovate, the larger 11 to 14.5 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm. wide, usually long-acuminate, 
at base rounded or subtruncate-rounded, obscurely and remotely repand- 
denticulate or subentire, papery, above deep green, evenly but rather sparsely 
dotted with shining yellowish glands, along costa and lower portion of the 
veins cinereous-tomentulose, beneath paler but distinctly green, similarly 
gland-dotted on surface, along veins and less conspicuously along some of the 
veinlets densely and finely sordid-tomentulose, feather-veined, the chief veins 
about 7 pairs, prominulous beneath, the secondaries loosely prominulous- 
reticulate; panicles corymbiform, terminal, rounded or flattish, very many- 
headed, 4 to 19 cm. wide, usually leafy-bracted, very densely ochroleuccus- 
tomentulose; heads cylindric, 2 or 3-flowered, about 9 mm. high in flower, 
1.2 mm. thick. umbellate-fasciculate, the pedicels 2 to 6 mm. long; involucre 
5.5 to 7 mun. high, strongly graduate, about 6-seriate, the outermost phyllaries 
triangular-ovate, about 0.8 mm. long, densely toementulose, the others oval or 
oval-ovate (middle) to oblong-linear (inner), acute to obtusish, whitish- 
stramineous, 1-nerved, the outer somewhat tomentulose at the usually thick- 
ened apex and ciliolate, the innermost subglabrous, all often pinkish-tinged ; 
corollas (when dried) pale rosy-purplish, sparsely glandular, 7 mm. long, 
the teeth linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 2.56 mm. long; achenes turbinate, about 
10-nerved, glandular at base, about 1.2 mm. long; pappus of 2 or 3 narrowly 
linear, somewhat twisted, easily deciduous, whitish, paleaceous awns about 
3.2 mm. long, and a crown of more persistent, unequal, lacerate, paleaceous, 
connate squamellae 1.8 mm. long or less. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 988283, collected in the vicinity 
of Las Trincheras, near Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela, altitude 200 to 400 
meters. October 15, 1918, by H. Pittier (no. 8185). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMEN EXAMINED: 
VENEZUELA: Lim6n, altitude 600 meters, August 1, 1916, Jahn 471. 
Related to Oliganthes acuminata (H. B. K.) Schultz Bip., to which these 
specimens have been referred. In that species, however, the heads are 
j-flowered, and there are no elongate deciduous awns in the pappus. The 
vernacular name of O. hypochlora is given by Dr. Jabn as “gamuro.” Speci- 
mens of O. acuminata, agreeing perfectly with the crig:nal deseript’on of that 
species, have been collected by Mr. Pittier on the Upper Cotiza near Caracas 
(no, 9884) and near Los Teques, Miranda (no, 11245). 
