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` corolla glabra, achænio 10-costato basi pilosiusculo cæteris 
sparse resinoso-punctatis, pappi serie externa paleacea 
acuta achænio breviore. 
Has. Upland Campos near Villa de Arrayas, Province of 
- Goyaz. April, 1340. 
Suffrutex subbipedalis. Folia 24-34 poll. longa, 12-15 lin. 
- lata. Corolla purpurea. Pappus sordidus. 
- Apparently near V. Zuccariniana, Mart. 
8792. V. hoveæfolia; glaberrima, caule suffruticoso erecto 
Tamoso tereti, ramulis subangulatis, foliis breve petiolatis 
late linearibus utrinque obtusis vel acutis apice breviter 
-apiculatis vel submuticis integris coriaceis  penniveniis 
` utrinque eleganter reticulatis, ramis subscorpioideis, capi- 
~ tulis ad axillas foliorum secus ramos sessilibus solitariis 
vel gemminis folio florali brevioribus 10-12-floris, involucri 
` Ovati squamis squarrosis glaberrimis ciliatis, externis ovato- 
lanceolatis acuminatis, intimis lanceolato-linearibus longe 
` acuminatis, corolla glabra, achænio 10-striato sericeo- 
~ villoso, pappi serie externa x peor acuminata achænio 
3 breviore. 
Has. Dry upland Ceca near Villa de Arrays, Province 
ene April, 1840. 
3-4-pedalis. Folia 23-3 poll. beni 4-7-lin. latii 
tus impresso- punctata: Corolla purpurea. "-—— 
viMshinióus, : 
z Allied to V, levigata, Te on whith it differs in its 
Petiolate, not sessile leaves, which are besides. shorter and 
broader, and its squarrose, not adpressed, involucral scales. 
m very variable plant, particularly in the length of the 
: branches, and the shape of the leaves. | 
Stitpnopappus, Mart. 
‘Matgine subrevolutis integris supra glabris nit 
dense dinéfeo-tomentosis, capitulis 1-3 axillarik 
uen s.  glomeratus; suffruticosus, erectus, versus apicem ——— iod 
* osus,ramisteretibusstriatisaraneoso-tomen- —— 
tosis, foliis sessilibus lineari-lanceolatis acutis basi obtusis — 
