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rowed below the middle into a wingod petiole continuous about the stem, 

 pubescent on both surfaces, 3-nerved, paler and conspicuously reticulate- 

 veined beneath : inflorescence a terminal flat-topped cymose corymb : 

 heads 1 to 1.5 cm, high, 2 to 2.5 cm. in diameter when fully expanded: 

 involucre 2-seriate ; outer scales of the involucre foliaceous, ovate, 1 to 

 1.5 cm. long, two-thirds as broad, acute or slightly acuminate-acute, 

 pubescent with crisp hirsutish hairs ; inner scales of the involucre 

 smaller, externally pubescent with glandular and hirsute hairs inter- 

 mixed, more or less surrounding the glabrous ray-achenes : ray -flowers 

 subbiseriate ; rays small, inconspicuous, yellow : disk-flowers numerous ; 

 corolla-tube long, slender, externally pubescent, arapliated above into 

 an elongated campanulate limb : achenes smooth and glabrous, slightly 

 obovate-oblique, and more or less angular. — Costa Rica. Planta- 

 tions de mais du Cope^^, April, 1898, Ad. Tonduz, no. 11,947 (hb. Gr., 

 & hb. Inst. Phys.-Geog. Cost. Ri.). 



In general habit this species closely resembles the genus Polymnia, 

 and more particularly P. edulis, Wedd., but the involucral characters and 

 the perfect disk-flowers place it readily in the genus Ramfordia. 



MoNTANOA MACROLEPis, Rob. & Greeum. Proc. Am. Acad, xxxii. 

 44, & xxxiv. 512. Polymnia Liehmannii, Schz. Bip. ace. to Klatt in 

 Leopoldina xxiii. 89 (reprint, p. 2). A fragment and a good drawing 

 of the original or type of Pohjmnia Liehmannii, collected by Lieb- 

 mann at Cumbre de Estepa, Mexico, show very distinctly that the 

 plant has its affinity rather with Montanoa than with Polymnia, and 

 moreover is identical with the above species Montanoa macrolepis, 

 Rob. & Greenm. 



Gymnolomia microcephala. Less., LinniEa, v. 153. In the original 

 description of this species it is stated that the heads are discoid, but an 

 examination of the type specimen shows the heads to be distinctly radiate. 

 A comparison of the type of Gymnolomia patens, Gray, with the original 

 of G. microcephala. Less., also shows that the two plants are absolutely 

 identical. The combination made by Dr. Gray thus becomes a synonym, 

 and the varieties now under G. patens should be transferred to G. micro- 

 cephala, Less., hence the synonymy briefly stated is as follows : 



Gymnolomia microcephala, Less., 1. c. G. patens. Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. v. 182; Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Am. Bot. ii. 163; Rob. & 

 Greenm., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xxix. 94, incl. synonymy. 



Var. abbreviata, Rob. & Greemn. G. patens, var. ahhreviata, Rob. 

 & Greenm., Proc. Am, Acad. xxix. 387 ; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 xxix. 94. 



