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alt. 1900 m., 14 November, 1897, Conzatti <£• Gonzalez, no. 563 

 (hb. Gray). This species appears to be most nearly related to 

 V. Karvinskiana DC. and V. jaliscana Gleason. It is distinguished 

 from both by its somewhat larger and considerably more numerously 

 flowered heads, as well as by the tomentose pubescence on the stem 

 and lower surface of the leaves. 



Elephantopus mioropappus Klatt, Jahrb. Hamburg, wissensch. An- 

 stalt. ix. pt. 2, p. 124 (1892). Dr. Klatt's memorandum regarding this 

 plant was grounded upon Ule's no. 1184, collected "in campo bei 

 Laguna [Brazil] Miirz 1889." The specimen examined and labelled 

 by Dr. Klatt and now preserved in the Gray Herbarium has noth- 

 ing whatever to do with E. mioropappus Less, but is Gomphrena 



PERENNIS L. 



Phania Curtissii, n. sp., suffruticosa oppositiramea tomentella ; 

 caulibus teretibus obscure striatulis ; foliis oppositis graciliter petio- 

 latis late ovatis supra puberulis subtus paulo pallidioribus tomentellis 

 puncticulatis, caulinis late cordatis 1.5-2.2 era. longis et latis grosse 

 crenato-lobatis vel subtripartitis, petiolo ca. 1 cm. longo, foliis rameali- 

 bus multo minoribus basi obtusis vel raro acutiusculis nee cordatis 

 7-15 mm. longis 5-12 mm. latis, petiolo 3-4 mm. longo; capitulis 

 parvis graciliter pedicellatis numerosis cymosis ca. 25-fioris ; involucri 

 squamis oblanceolati-linearibus acutis viridibus ca. 3 mm. longis sub- 

 aequalibus ; corollis albis ; achaeniis nigris glabris deorsum decrescenti- 

 bus 5-angulatis lucidis ; pappi squamellis 5 saepissime 3-5-fidis 

 ciliolatis dorso granuliferis. — Near Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, West 

 Indies, 17 December, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, no. 239 (type, in hb. Gray). 

 This species most nearly approaches P. matricarioides (Spreng.) Griseb., 

 but may be readily distinguished by the very different form of its 

 leaves, which in most cases are fully as wide as long and on the main 

 stems are cordate. 



Stevia Berlandieri Gray. In this species, now known from several 

 states of northern Mexico, it is easy to remark certain rather striking 

 differences of pubescence and glandularity, though these do not seem to 

 be correlated with other distinctions of importance. In the typical form, 

 occurring in Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, the branchlets, leaves, 

 and petioles are minutely and often sparingly glandular-pulverulent 

 rather than pubescent, and the involucral scales are rather conspicu- 

 ously covered with sessile globular aureous atoms. From this very 

 constant typical form the following varieties are easily distinguished. 



Var. podadenia, n. var., ramulis et foliis et petiolis laxe crispeque 

 ^riseo-pubescentibus ; involucri squamis cum glandulis stipitatis his- 

 pidulis. — 8. Berlandieri Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Am. Bot. ii. 84 (1881), in 



