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The Botanical Gazttte. 



[April, 



var. 



EUPATORIUM AGERATIFOLIUM DC, var. purpureuiii nov. 

 Inflorescence with a dense purple glandular pubescence 



and the involucral bracts purple. — Coban, Dcpart. Alta Ver- 

 apaz, alt. 4G00 feet, May, 1887 {Turckheim 52). ■ 



Brickellia Pacayensis n. sp 



H, 



wezt 



{Eiipatorijivi rigidmn "Benth. 



Pl. Hartw. 88) but the 

 whole upper part of the plant is blackened with stipitate 

 glands, the heads are 20 to 30-flowered, and the involucral 

 scales are often much narrowed (linear-lanceolate to linear), 

 longer, and morc decidedly acuminate : "the pappus is minutely 

 but densely serrulate and the achenes densely soft pubescent. 



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Pacaya, Depart. Amatitlan, alt. 6000 feet, March, 1890 



Aplopai'1'US stoloniferus DC, var. glabratus nov. var. 



— Leaves glabrate, not all "very hirsute" as in the type. 



A curious and handsome Aplopappiis found on the crater of 

 Volcan de Agua, Depart. Zacatepequez. alt. 12100 feet 

 April, 1890 (y. D. S. 2328). 



Aphanostephus Pinulensis n. sp. — A stout very leafy and 

 branching perennial 3 to 4.5 dm. high, rather glaucous and 

 softly pubescent. the young leaves and branches and inflores- 

 cencc more or less floccose : leaves punctate, lance-ovate to 

 obovate in outline, the lower (blade) 9 cm. long, and on long 

 petioles, gradually becoming smaller upvvards, bipinnatifid, 

 the oblong obtusc pinnae more or less confiuent and irrcgularly 

 pinnately clcft and toothed (the whole plant with its conspic- 

 uous heads havingan Achillea look): heads on short peduncles 

 collected in a tcrmi,nal corymbose cluster : bracts of thc in- 

 yolucre lanceolate and strongly carinate : rays 5 to 8 



white, mostly reflexed with age : base of the coroiia- 

 tube in age prominently thickened and indurated, more or less 

 persistent on the strongly angulate-costate whitish achcne : 

 pappus a very short crovvn with toothcd edge.- Pinula 



long. 



mm. 



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A remarkable looking Aphanostephus on account oi its broad 

 bipinnatifid leaves. 



Clibadium Domiell-Smithii n. sp._Stem and inflorescence 



hirsute : leaves broadly ovate, mostly long-acuminate. with 

 spmulose-crcnulate serrulations, velvety pubcscent beneath 

 (even hirsute on the vcins), scabrous above, 12 to 25 cm. lon- 



6 to 16_cm. broad. onlong petioles : heads 4 to 5 mm. hi- 



h, 



