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more elongated leaves, narrower more secund panicles and much larger 



heads. 



Contza ltuata, HBK.. var. pilosa. Branches and younger leaves 

 long-pilose with pale hairs, almost if not quite lacking the viscid charac- 

 ter and the glands of the species. — Chiapas, on the border of a lake, 

 Tonahi, Paredon, Feb. 8, 1896 (C. & E. Seler, no. 1879). 



Pectis Lessixgii, Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad, xxxiii. 67, a species 

 formerly known only from Florida and the West Indies, was collected 

 at Nicoya, Costa Rica, in Decemher, 1899, by A. Tonduz (no. 13791). 



