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subtus nervo medio excepto albo-tomentosis, capitulis mul- 

 tifloris ad apices ramulorurn solitariis, involueri squamis 

 imbricatis extus piloso-tomentosis, externis ovato-lanceo- 

 latis pungentibus 1-nervibus, internis oblongo-lanceolatis 

 acuminatis 3-nervifous, achsenio piloso, pappo biseriali, setis 

 exterioribus latioribus multo brevioribus. 

 Hab. Serra de Taguari, province of Minas Geraes, Sept. 

 1840. 



Caulis apice ramosus, foliosus. Folia supra viridia 1-1 1- 

 pollicaria, lineara lata. Involucrura campanulatum, squa- 

 mis imbricatis apice subsquarroso-pungentibus. Corolla 

 pur p area, glabra. Achsenium dense albo-pilosum. Pappus 

 albidus. 



Except in the mode and nature of the inflorescence, this 

 plant agrees with the description of V. rosmarinifolia, Less. 

 which Decandolle places in the last division of his section 

 Lepidaploa. My plant certainly belongs to the section Lep- 

 tospermoides. 



Sect. Vanillosma, Less. 



4759. V. oblonga ; fruticosa, scandens, ramis teretibus fulvo- 

 tomentosis, foliis petiolatis oblongis basi obtusis apice 

 obtuse acuminatis minute glanduloso-denticulatis supra 

 glabris subtus fulvo-tomentosis, capitulis ad axillas folio- 

 rum glomeratis sessilibus 3-floris petiolo longioribus, invo- 

 lucri foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis glabriusculis sub- 

 ciliatis, achaenio oblongo subtrigono glaberrimo, pappi 

 serie externa interiore duplo breviore. 



Hab. Margins of woods near Monro Velho, province of 

 Minas Geraes. Sept. 1840. 

 Frutex scandens, ramosus. Folia supra viridia, pennive- 



n ia, 3-poll. longa, pollicem lata. Petioli teretes, supra sulcati, 



tomentosi, 3-4 lin. longi. Pappus argenteus. 

 Allied to V. axillaris, Less, but distinguished by its fewer 



florets, and by the external row of the pappus being no 



broader than the inner. 



