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except along the margin, very sparsely lanate; stamen-tube about equaling the perianth; style 
elongate, the stigmas filiform; seed ovoid, 1.5 mm. long, reddish-brown. 
TyPH LocaALity: Valley of Mexico, Federal District, Mexico, at an altitude of 2190 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Valley of Mexico. 
3. Gomphrena Pringlei Coult. & Fisher, Bot. Gaz. 17: 349. 1892. 
Gomphrena decumbens Pringlet Stuchlik, Repert. Sp. Nov. 11: 156. 1912. 
Prostrate or procumbent annual, much branched throughout; stems slender, 5~12 cm. 
long, rather sparsely appressed-pilose; leaves numerous, subsessile, the blades narrowly oblong, 
oblanceolate, or ovate-oblong, 1-2 cm. long, 2-4 mm, wide, acute, acutish at the base, green, 
sparsely appressed-pilose on both surfaces; spikes terminal, solitary, each subtended by 
usually 2 ovate-oblong sessile leaves, subglobose, 7-10 mm. in diameter; bracts ovate-tri- 
angular, acuminate, white; bractlets 3-4 mm. long, one and one half times as loug as the 
bracts, white, subcoriaceous, broadly cristate at the apex, the irregularly and acutely dentate 
crest as broad as the bractlet, gradually narrowed below and extending nearly to the base of 
the bractlet; perianth nearly as long as the bractlets, lanate below, the linear lobes white, 
acute or acutish, often dentate; stamen-tube exserted; style elongate, the stigmas filiform; 
seed subglobose, 1 mm. long, brown, shining. 
TYPE LOCALITY: State of Mexico, 
DisrRisurTIon: State of Mexico. 
4, Gomphrena dispersa Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 91. 
1916. 
Gomphrena decumbens Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 410, in part. 1849, Not G. decumbens Jacq. 1804. 
Gomphrena decumbens genuina Stuchlik, Repert. Sp. Nov. 11: 156, in part. 1912. 
Gomphrena decumbens grandifolia Stuchlik, Repert. Sp. Nov. 11: 157, in part. 1912. 
Prostrate or procumbent annual or perennial, much branched, the branches 2~10 dm. 
long, slender, sparsely or densely appressed-pilose; leaves numerous, short-petiolate, the 
blades oval-obovate to oblong, 1.5-5 cm. long, 0.5—-2 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded at the apex, 
mucronate, acuminate to attenuate at the base, bright-green, pilose-sericeous, often glabrate 
on the upper surface; heads usually solitary, terminal or axillary, subglobose or short-cylindric, 
9-13 mm. in diameter, each subtended by 2 acute sessile leaves, these usually shorter than 
the spikes; bracts rounded-ovate, acuminate, white, often denticulate; bractlets 5-6 mm. 
long, about 3 times as long as the bracts, thin, acute to obtuse, white or rarely purplish-red, 
narrowly cristate at the apex, the crest extending along the keel for only a short distance, 
denticulate or laciniate; perianth usually equaling the bractlets, densely lanate, the lobes 
oblong-linear, acuminate or attenuate, white; stamen-tube commonly included; style elongate, 
the stigmas slender; seed 1.5 mm. long, reddish-brown, shining. 
Type LocaLity: Edge of a cultivated field, Sierra de Anafe, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 
DIstRIBUTION: Dry soil, often in waste or cultivated ground, Cuba, Isle of Pines, Porto Rico, 
and Jamaica; central Mexico to Costa Rica; adventive in southern Florida. 
ILLUSTRATION: Fawe. & Rendle, Fl. Jam. 3: f. 47 (as G. decumbens). 
5. Gomphrena Palmeri Standley, sp. nov. 
Gomphrena globosa albiflora Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 409, in part. 1849. 
Prostrate or procumbent annual, much branched, the branches stout, I-5 dm, long, 
appressed-villous; leaves numerous, the basal ones long-petiolate, the cauline ones short- 
petiolate, the blades broadly oval, oblong, or oblanceolate, 2-5.5 cm. long, 0.7-1.3 cm. wide, 
rounded or obtuse at the apex, mucronate, acute to attenuate at the base, green, sericeous 
beneath, canescent or short-pilose above; heads short-cylindric, 1.2-1.5 cm. in diameter, 
solitary or glomerate, mostly terminal, each head or cluster of heads subtended by 4 or several 
broadly oval, acutish, sessile leaves, these equaling or shorter than the heads; bracts broadly 
ovate-triangular, actuminate, white; bractlets 3 times as long as the bracts, long-acuminate, 
white, subcoriaceous, broadly cristate above, narrowly cristate to the base, the crests denticu- 
late above; flowers very strongly compressed; perianth much shorter than the bractlets, densely 
