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infundifuliformi, lobis 5 linearibus acutis patentibus. Florum foemininorum corolla 
angustissime tubulosa, truncata, vel oblique truncata, minutissime denticulata, stylo 
multo brevior. 
A dwarf dicecious perennial with erect woody stems, apparently about 3-5 in. high, 
rooting at the base, sparingly branched in the upper part, densely leafy to the top, quite 
glabrous in all parts. Leaves densely crowded, spreading, $-$ in. long (including the 
petiole), 1-2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute or obtuse, tapering at the base into a linear 
petiole, entire, coriaceous, shining above, wrinkled from shrinkage in drying, veinless. 
Heads subunisexual, solitary or 2-4 together, sessile at the apex of the branches, and 
surrounded, but not overtopped by the leaves, about 24 lin. diam., discoid, many-flowered. 
Involucre campanulate, a little shorter than the florets, its seales in 2-3 series, subequal, 
about 14 lin. long, $ lin. broad, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, ciliate. Receptacle 
naked in the sterile heads, but with several linear or linear-lanceolate acute scales in the 
female heads, scattered among, and about as long as, the florets. Florets of the sterile 
heads structurally hermaphrodite, but with barren ovaries ; corolla with a tube 1 lin. 
long, gradually widening at the mouth, and 5 linear, acute, spreading lobes 1 lin. long, 
glabrous. Florets of the female heads with a very slender tubular corolla, truncate or 
oblique and very minutely 5-toothed at the apex, much shorter than the shortly bifid 
style, glabrous. Ovary glabrous. Pappus-bristles numerous and alike in both kinds of 
flowers, equalling the style in the female florets, slightly scabrid, whitish. 
Summit of Mount Roraima, 8600 ft., McConnell & Quelch, 631. 
PrEROCAULON VIRGATUM, DC. Prod. v. p. 454, var. 
Kotinga Valley, McConnell & Quelch, 159. Savannahs generally, McConnell A" 
Quelch, 306. 
STIFFTIA CONDENSATA, Baker, in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. mt. p. 351; im Thurn & Oliver, 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. IT. ii. (1887), pp. 254, 278. 
Summit of Mount Roraima, Me Connell & Quelch, 87, 651.—Endemie. 
STIFFTIA CONNELLIL N. E. Brown, sp. n. (Plate 8. Rami 2-3 lin. crassi. tomento 
compacto cinereo dense obtecti. Folia petiolata, coriacea, oblonga vel oblongo- 
obovata, obtusa, basi cuneato-rotundata, supra glabra, subtus tomento deciduo 
vestita. Capitula solitaria, magna.  Involueri subinfundibuliformis  bracteze 
multiseriatze; interiores ligulatz obtusæ; exteriores gradatim minores, ovatze, obtusze, 
subtomentose. Receptaculum bracteis linearibus minute dentato-ciliatis paucis 
onustum. Corolla infra medium 5-loba, glabra, lobis linearibus acutis spiraliter 
revolutis. Stylus longe exsertus, apice minute bifidus. 
Branches woody, 2-3 lin. thick, covered with a dense, felt-like, greyish tomentum. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, coriaceous; petiole 1-2 in. long, tomentose; blade 34—54 in. 
long, 13-23 in. broad, oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, somewhat cuneately rounded at 
the base, entire, glabrous above, clothed with a deciduous tomentum beneath, which 
falls away in patches ; midrib and veins about equally prominent on both sides. Heads 
solitary, terminal, about 24 in. long and 2in. diam. Involucre somewhat funnel-shaped, 
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