BLAKE—NEW PLANTS FROM VENEZUELA, 537 
(727, 728, 872, 874) from the Piramo de Quirora, at altitudes of 3,000 to 3,200 
meters. 
Dr. Jahn states that E. marcescens grows in moist, rather shady situations 
among bushes of Espeletia neriifolia, Myrsine, Osteomeles, and other shrubs, 
and that it is not found higher up on the open dry parts of the Paramo de 
Quiroraé. 
Espeletia occulta Blake, sp. nov. 
Caudex stout, 2 cm. thick, simple and densely leafy below the inflorescence, 
densely lanate-pilose with brownish white hairs; petioles of the leaves below 
the inflorescence 3 cm. long, sheathing the stem, densely lanate-pilose outside 
and at apex inside; blades oval-oblong, about 25 cm. long, 8 to 9.5 cm. wide, 
obtuse, at base cuneate or rounded-cuneate, minutely denticulate on the very 
narrowly revolute margin, subcoriaceous, above deep brownish green, glabrous 
or quickly glabrate except sometimes on costa, somewhat resinous, beneath 
densely ochroleucous- or griseous-tomentose with close tomentum, densely and 
closely feather-veined, the chief veins about 90 pairs, straight, prominent 
beneath, impressed above, . connected beneath by a fine obscure reticulation ; 
flowering stems about 30 cm. high, branched, densely lanate-pilose with brown- 
ish hairs, several-leaved, the leaves opposite or alternate, similar to the basal 
leaves but much smaller, 15 cm. long or less; heads numerous, in a flattish 
cymose panicle equaled and essentially hidden by the larger leaves, 2.5 em. wide 
in flower. subsessile or short-pediceled in close leafy-bracted clusters of about 5 
to 5 at tips of peduncles; disk in young flower 7 mm. high, 1.5 em. thick; 
involucre 2-seriate, obgraduate, 1 to 1.3 cm. high, the outer phyllaries about 5, 
ovate, acutish, densely lanate-pilose, with indurate base and loose herbaceous 
apex ; rays about 25, 2-seriate, yellow (?), marcescent, the lamina elliptic, 7 mm. 
long, 2.8 mm. wide; disk corollas yellowish (?), 6 mm. long (tube 3 mm., 
throat 2 mm., teeth 1 mm.), the tube pilose with several-celled hairs, the 
teeth pilose with conspicuously club-shaped hairs with brown tips; pales 
oblong, obtuse, 6.5 mm. long, above densely pilose with brownish hairs and 
especially along margin pilose with slenderly clavate, brown-tipped hairs; 
achenes of ray (submature) trigonous-obovoid, glabrous, 2.8 mm. long. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 1,069,153, collected on the Paramo 
de Quiroraé, Mérida, Venezuela, altitude 3,000 meters, October 8, 1921, by 
Alfredo Jahn (no. 730). 
A very distinct species, characterized by its large, oval-oblong, subcoriaceous 
leaves, which almost conceal the heads. It is somewhat similar in appearance 
to Espeletia neriifolia (H. B. K.) Schultz Bip., but has much larger heads 
and leaves, and is evidently of different habit. 
Hymenostephium meridense Blake, sp. nov. 
Herbaceous, at least above, 60 cm. high and more, the basé not seen, stem 
slender, branched, rather densely cinereous-strigillose above, glabrescent below ; 
internodes 9.5 to 16.5 em. long; leaves opposite except in the inflorescence 5 
petioles slender, densely cinereous-strigillose, 5 to 20 mm. long; blades. ovate, 
25 to 7 em. long, 1.2 to 3.5 cm. wide, acute, mucronulate, at base rounded, 
mucronulate-serrulate (teeth 2 to 4 mm. apart), firm-papery, above evenly 
and rather densely hispidulous-pilosulous with incurved cinereous hairs with 
glandular-subtuberculate bases, smooth or slightly rough to the touch, beneath 
densely cinereous-strigose, triplinerved essentially from base, the veins and 
veinlets impressed above, prominulous-reticulate beneath; heads about 2.5 cm. 
wide, in loose irregular panicles of 3 to 6 at tips of stem and branches, on 
densely cinereous-strigillose pedicels 1 to 5.5 cm. long, naked or with 1 or 2 
yery small subulate bracts; disk 6 to (maturity) 8 mm. high, 6 to (maturity) 
