Nova genera et species I. 461 



Stamina corollae sub limbo inserta. Styli rami parte integra fere duplo 

 breviores, in ^j^ superiore manifeste papillosi. Acliaenia immatura. 



Hab. in Trinidad in fruticetis et sylvis ad Arima, m. Mart. flor.: 



Eggers ed. Rensch n. 1121. 



'' Mikaiiia oopetala Urb. (n. sp.) ramis lineis 6 prominentibus plus 

 minus hexangulis, superne minute pulverulento-puberulis, mox glabres- 

 centibus; pseudostipulis nullis; foliis 2 0,7 cm. longe petiolatis, ovatis 

 V. ovato-ellipticis, basi subabrupte et cuneatim in petiolum protractis, 

 apice vix v. satis longe acuminatis acumine obtuso, 15 5 cm. longis, 

 7 2 cm. latis, margine integris v. obsolete crenulatis, pinnatinervibus, 

 membranaceis, supra giabris v. ad nervs obsolete pilosulis, subtus bre- 

 vissime et dense pubescentibus v. tomentosulis, laevibus; inflorescentiis 

 termiualibus et lateralibus, corymbosis, ramulis in cymas 3- raro 5- 

 cephalas excurrentibus , bracteis superioribus sicut prophylla lanceolato- 

 linearibus v. linearibus ad ramulos plus minus sursum adnatis; capitulis 

 arcte sessilibus; involucri squamis 6 7 mm. longis, apice obtusis v. 

 rotundatis; pappi setis 68 80 ad apicem parum v. manifeste incrassatis; 

 corolla 5 6 mm. longa, ad v. supra medium in limbum campanulatum 

 abrupte dilatata, lobis ovatis obtusiusculis, limbo integro duplo longio- 

 ribus, erectis v. subincurvis; achaeniis 4 5 mm. longis giabris glan- 

 duloso-punctatis, plane maturis obtusangulis, in angulis ipsis leviter 

 longitrorsum sulcatis. 



Mikania amara Spreng. Syst. III (1826) p. 421 (p.}').); Poepp.! 

 PI. cuh. in sclied. (in aliis herb, ut videtur sub M. volubi distributa); 

 non Willd. 



Mikania aUenuata A. Rieh, in Sagra Cub. XI (1850) p. 43 (ex 

 descr.); non DG. 



Mikania trinitaria Griseb.? Flor. (1861) p. 363 (p.pj, PI Wright.! 

 j). 512 et Gat. p. 147; Sauv. Cub. n. 1207 p. 78; non DG. 



Eupatorium trinitarium Maxa Gat. Periant. in Anal. Soc. esp. 

 Hist. nat. XIX (1890) p. 270 (cum var. volubilis Maxa). 



Yolubilis. Rami jiuiiores pilis brevissimis crispulis plus minus ob- 

 sessi, internodiis usquo ad 15 cm. longis, ramulis serialibus obviis et plerum- 

 que evolutis. Folia nervis supra vix prominulis, lateralibus plus minus 

 arcuatis, obsolete anastomosantibus. Corymbi 4 7 cm. longi, interdum 

 in ];)anniculam amplam collecti; rhachis et ramuH breviter v. brevissinie 

 pubescentes; bracteaeeuphylloideae ovato-oblongaeusquelanceolatae, 2 1 cm. 

 longae, caeterae lanceolato- lineares v. lineares; propliylla 3 5 mm. longa. 

 Involucri squamae anguste oblongae v. oblonge -lineares subaequilatae , acqui- 

 longae v. subinaequilongae , 5 7-uerves, exteriores dorso brevissimc v. 

 breviter puberulae, interiores praeter apicem glabrae. Pappi setae subbi- 

 seriatae liberae manifeste spinuligerae sordide albidac v. rufescentes. Corollae 

 lobi ad apicem brevissime puberuli. Stamina corollae sub limbo inserta. 



