Marcu 27, 1915} Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Sprcres—I 2573 
2 dm long, 1 em thick, subterete, the green leaf bearing 
tips dirty yellowish brown scurfy or crisply hairy, taking 
roots along the lower side of the decumbent base, ultimately ` 
erect. Leaves few, alternating, heavily coriaceous, horizontal- 
ly spreading, subavellaneus on the lower side when dry and 
scurfy, glabrous on the upper side and in the fresh state 
much darker green, elliptically elongated or the smaller ones 
ovately elliptic, apex obtuse, base similar though frequently 
unequally terminating, the basal one third entire, otherwise 
obscurely crenate, the lamina on our specimen varying from 
10 to 18 em long, 6 to 8 cm wide across the middle or 
immediateiy below it, flat; petiole somewhat flattened and 
shallowly grooved along the upper side, otherwise covered 
with deciduous scales or hairs, 3 to 5 cm long, usually 
with axillary bracts; these bracts are nearly 1 cm long, 
oblong in shape and are densely scurfy; midrib plane and 
^ glabrous above except at the base, quite broad toward the 
base beneath, with about 3 pairs of much ascendingly curved 
lateral nerves, the larger ones usually branched along the 
outer side, reticulations mainly toward the ends of the 
lateral nerves and very coarse. Inflorescence usually solitary 
from the leaf axils, ascending; peduncle strict, 1 to 2 cm 
long, densely yellowish brown scurfy, above the middle pro- 
vided with a ciliate margin and sparsely scurfy, broad bract 
7.5 mm long, terminated by a dense cluster of few to sever- 
al flowers; involucral bracts likewise sparsely scurfy, ovately 
oblong, 1 to 1.5 cm long, melleus when dry, few to several 
according to the size of the inflorescent head, imbricate es- 
pecially in the bud state; flowers erect, odorless, cremeus 
or corolla white; bract subtending the calyx or flowers 12 
mm long, one half as wide below the middle, ovately elonga- 
ted, very membranous, margins irregularly rugose and ap- 
pearing short ciliate, midrib evident and with 1 to 3 pairs 
of very obscure lateral nerves; calyx 1.75 cm long, the basal 
one half to two thirds united and subterete, 6 mm thick, 
more or less roughened and very sparsely strigose; lobes 
spreading, imbricate in the bud, persistent, the outer 2 or 
3 broadly elliptic, about lem long, similar in vestiture and 
texture to the subtending bracts, the inner bracts only one 
half as wide, otherwise alike their alternating ones; corolla 
