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lanate, the lobes linear, acute, white, nearly concealed by the pubescence; stamen-tube usually 
exserted; style elongate, the stigmas slender; seed 1.5 mm. long, brown, shining. 
Type collected near Acapulco, Mexico, in 1894 or 1895, Edward Palmer 269 (U.S. Nat. Herb. 
no. 258744). 
DIsTRIBUTION: Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Guatemala. 
6. Gomphrena nana (Stuchlik) Standley, sp. nov. 
Gomphrena globosa albiflora Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 409, in part. 1849. 
Gomphrena decumbens nana Stuchlik, Repert. Sp. Nov. 11: 158. 1912. 
Procumbent or ascending annual, much branched or nearly simple, the branches 1-5 dm. 
long, stout, appressed-pilose; leaves numerous, short-petiolate, the blades oblong, oval, or 
broadly obovate, 1.5-4.5 cm. long, 0.7-2 cm. wide, obtuse, mucronate, appressed-pilose; 
heads short-cylindric, 1 cm. in diameter or slightly larger, crowded at the ends of the branches, 
each cluster subtended by numerous acute short-petiolate leaves; bracts triangular-ovate, 
long-acuminate, sordid-white; bractlets 6-7 mm. long, twice as long as the bracts, long-acumi- 
nate, thin, yellowish-white, very narrowly cristate below the apex, the crest remotely denticu- 
late; flowers only slightly compressed; perianth shorter than the bractlets, densely lanate 
below, the lobes oblong-linear, long-attenuate, white, firm; stamen-tube included; style elon- 
gate, the stigmas slender; seed globose-ovoid, 1.5 mm. long, brown. 
TyrB LocaLity: Manzanillo, Mexico. 
DistTRIBUTION: Central and eastern Mexico to Guatemala. 
7. Gomphrena decumbens Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. 4: 41. 1804. 
Xeraea decumbens Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 545. 1891. 
Gomphrena decumbens albiflora Chod. & Hass]. Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 3: 389. 1903. 
Gomphrena perennis simplex Stuchlik, Repert. Sp. Nov. 11: 153. 1912. 
Gomphrena decumbens genuina Stuchlik, Repert. Sp. Nov. 11: 156, in part. 1912. 
Gomphrena decumbens grandifolia, Stuchlik, Repert. Sp. Nov. 11: 157, in part. 1912. 
Gomphrena decumbens roseifiora Stuchlik, Repert. Sp. Nov. 11: 157, m part. 1912. 
Prostrate or decumbent annual, rarely erect, usually much branched, the branches slender, 
1-6 dm. long, appressed-pilose; leaves usually numerous, short-petiolate, the blades broadly 
obovate to oblong or oval, 1.5—7.5 cm. long, 0.6—2.5 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the apex, 
mucronate, acute to attenuate at the base, bright-green, pilose-sericeous beneath, canescent 
or glabrate above; heads subglobose, about 1 cm. in diameter, usually solitary, terminal, each 
subtended by usually 2 acute subsessile leaves, these shorter or longer than the heads; bracts 
ovate-triangular, long-acuminate; bractlets 5-6 mm. long, about twice as long as the bracts, 
long-acuminate, thin, yellowish-white or usually tinged with purplish-red, very narrowly 
cristate below the apex, the crest remotely denticulate or often entire; perianth shorter than 
the bractlets, densely lanate, the lobes oblong-linear, long-attenuate, white; stamen-tube usually 
exserted; style elongate, the stigmas slender; seed 1.5 mm. long, reddish-brown, shining. 
TyrE Locality: Not known. : : 
DISTRIBUTION: Dry and waste ground, eastern and central Mexico to Guatemala; also in South 
America. 
ILLUSTRATION: Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. fl. 482. 
8. Gomphrena nitida Rothr. Bot. Wheeler’s Surv. 233. 1878. 
Xeraea nitida Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 545. 1891. 
Gomphrena decumbens albiflora Stuchlik, Repert. Sp. Nov. 11:158,in part. 1912. Not G. decumbens 
albiflora Chod. & Hassl. 1903. 
, Annual, 2-7 dm. high, usually erect, rarely decumbent, much branched or sometimes. 
simple, the branches slender, ascending or suberect, pilose-strigose; leaves usually few, the 
nodes distant, short-petiolate, the blades obovate, oblong, or oval, 1.5-6 cm. long, 0.4-2.5 em. 
wide, green, obtuse or rounded at the apex, acuminate or attenuate at the base, appressed- 
pilose on both surfaces; spikes subglobose, 12-16 mm. in diameter, usually solitary, terminal, 
each subtended by 2 leaves, these sessile, acute, usually shorter than the spikes but sometimes 
longer; bracts ovate-triangular, acuminate, white; bractlets twice as long as the bracts, long- 
attenuate, yellowish-white or rarely tinged with red, cristate from below the apex nearly to 
the base, the crests laciniate-dentate; perianth much shorter than the bractlets, copiously 
