1919] Brandegee: Plantae Mexicanae Purpiisianae 503 



Perityle incompta, sp. nov. 



Herbacea : partt' siiperiori pnberula ; eaiilibns parce ramosis plus 

 ([nam 4 dm. altis, sti'iatis; foliis oblongis, longo lanceolato-dentatis, 

 superioribus parvis sessilibus; capitulis laxe eorymbosis, pedunculis 

 2-3 cm. longis; bracteis involucri oblanceolatis ca. 4 mm. longis; re- 

 ceptaculo coiivexo ; radiis albis 5 mm. longis apice 3-dentatis, disci 

 floribus ca. 3 mm. longis pnbornlis, tubo fancibus fere aecjuanti, styli 

 ramis tenuibus obtusis piiberulis; aehaeJiiis oblongis compressis mar- 

 gine ciliatis, ca. 2.5 mm. longis, pappo breviter ciipulato lacero coro- 

 natis, aristulis nidlis. 



Collected by Walter E. Bryant at Los Dolores, a locality a short 

 distance north from La Paz, Baja California. The specimens are not 

 complete, lacking the lower part of the stem. They evidently represent 

 a tall species having nearly glabrous stems and leaves dentate with 

 narrow long teeth and with slender puberulent obtuse style branches. 

 Type, Herb. Univ. Calif. No. 90513. 



