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1895.] CompositcB from Guatemala. 49 



hairy at base, about 2"° long: disk-corollas tubular-inflated 

 from near the base, prominently glandular-nerved: achenes 

 5"" long. — Chiul, Depart. Quiche, alt. 8,ooo^ April 1892, 



Heyde & Lux '^,2,7$' 



Very closely related to the Chilian P. glabrata DC. accord- 



ing to the description in DC. Prodr. 5: 515. 



Jaegeria HIRTA Less. includes Spilanthes sessilifolia 



Hemsley.- — San Miguel Uspantan, Depart. Quiche, alt. 6- 



12,000", April 1892, Heyde & Uix 3,395. 3.794. 3.796. 



SclerocarpUS DIVARICATUS Benth. & Hook. was sent out 

 in a previous distribution as S. uniserialis, no. 2,376. 



MONTANOA MORITZIANA Sch. Bip. — Coban, Depart. Alta 

 Vera Paz, alt. 4,300", November 1885, Tuerckheim 814. I 

 have not discovered any description of this species, the mate- 

 rial having been named from Andean specimens so labelled 

 and distributed by Sonders and by Andr6. 



MONTANOA PATENS Gray. — Jumaytepeque, Depart. Santa 

 Rosa, alt. 6, 000", December 1892, Heyde & Lux 4,216. The 

 specimens are more bushy and profusely flowered than those 

 heretofore collected. The leaves are densely and softly pubes- 

 cent beneath, glabrous or nearly so above. The species is 

 very near M. arborescens DC, to which some of its forms 

 have at times been referred. 



Moutauoa Samalensis 



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plant, about 3" high; branchlets more or less wooUy pubescent 

 (becoming glabrate), the inflorescence densely so: leaves (only 

 upper ones seen) petioled, ovate-lanceolate with a rhombic 

 short-cuneate triplinerved base tapering into a more or less 

 winged petiole, acuminate, crenate or somewhat toothed, 

 scabrous-puberulent above, pubescent beneath, 20 to 30"° long 

 (including petiole), 7.5 to 10™ broad In widest part; those 

 that subtend or belong to the inflorescence narrowly lanceo- 

 late, acute or acuminate, wing-petioled, nearly or quite en- 

 tire (the lower ones 15 to 17"° long): inflorescence a lax 

 leafy few-flowered trichotomous cyme: heads long-peduncled, 

 7 to 9""" high, with about ten narrovvly to broadly spatulate 

 white (yellowish in drying), more or less pubescent rays 10 to 

 15""" long: involucral scales ovate, acute, woolly pubescent: 

 chaff of the receptacle more or less toothed towards the base, 

 broadly truncate, the midrib ciliate on the back and extended 

 as a prominent mucronate point: disk corollas yellow and pu- 

 bescent.— Rio Samala, JDepart. Retalhulen, alt. 1,700'» April 

 1892, John Donnell Smith 2,858. 



