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reports lie tenai flexuoso prostiato uodis radicante, inter- 



uodiis saepius perlongia (ad l dm. glabris angulato-costatis ; foliis 

 oppositis, limbo late ovato L.8-3.5 cm. longo 1.2-2.7 cm. lato supra 

 basin integram civiia!" dcntato supra viriili sparse hispidulo Bubtus 

 paulo pallidiore glabra basi obtuse vel breviter aoominato apice obti 

 pctiulu i il tcompresso dorsoventraliter) Limbum longitudine aequante; 

 oapitnlis parvis ca. 9 floris cymosis, oymis ca. 7-13-capituliferia termi- 

 nalibus; involucri campanulati sqnamis ca. 6 obovatia viridibua obtusis 

 ciliatis3 mm. longis ; eorollae tubo proprio brevi glandaloso puberulo, 

 faucibus campanulatis quam tubo longioribua subglabris, limbi denti- 

 bue 5 late ovatis obtusis ; acbaeniis immaturia anreum hiapidulia basi 

 recti u sen lis. Colombia, near R. Flautas, 11. Paez Valley, Tiena Aden- 

 fcro, Crntral Cordillera, alt. 2900 m., 26 January, L906, //. Pittier y do. 

 L208(bb. 1'. S. Nat. Mas. ; fragment inhb. Gray . This spa inds 



nearest /'. callitricha Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad xlii. 15 (1906 , but 

 differs in having smaller more coarsely and simply toothed leaves with 

 much longer petioles. It is also a smoother plant and has fewer- 

 flowered heads. 



Stevia alatipes Robinson, n. sp., herbacea perennis ca. 1 cm. aha 

 hirsuta : radice fibrosa; foliis radicalibus ovatis vel obovatis crenato- 

 serratis ca. 8 cm. longis 4-5 cm. latis pinnatineryiis atrinque hirsutis 

 baud vel vix punctatis apice rotundatis basi angustatia in petiolum 

 alatum decurrentibus ; foliis caulinis oppositis 2-4-jugis ohlanceo- 

 latia vel fere spatulatis in petiolum alatum basi attenuatis ; infli iresueutia 

 laxissime pauciramosa ; ramis Dudinsculis, capitula pauca parva sacpe 



jregata ferentibus ; bracteis 7 mm. longis lanceolatis sessilibus hcr- 

 baceis ; pedicellis ad 1 cm. longis filiformibua glanduloso-puberulis ; 

 oapitulia ca. 12 mm. longis 4-iloris ; involucri squamia 5 viridibua lan- 

 ceolato-linearibus acutis inaequalibus ca. 7 mm. longis ; corollis 7 mm. 

 longis, tubo viridescenti puberulo, limbo albo ; achaeniis nigrescentihus 

 .'!.•_' mm. longis minute puberulis ; pappo e squamia 3 brevibua albis ct 

 aristis 3 albidis 5-6 mm. longis barbellatis composite — Pine forests, 

 Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico, alt. 1680 m., 11 November, 1905, C. G. 

 Pringle, do. 10,124 (type, in hb. Gray). Near 8. elatior HBK. but 

 readily separable by its much larger basal leaves with long-attenuate 

 base, its aggregated heads, etc. 



Stevia Lozanoi Robinson, n. sp., caule tereti purpureo pilifl crispis 

 griseis brevibua pubescenti supra laxeramoso folioso; ramis divergenti- 

 ascendentibus subsimplicibus gracilibus ca. 1 dm. longis foliosia in 

 oorymbos subdensos capitiformis terminantibus ; foliis inferioribua 

 ignotis, Buperioribus linearibua sessilibus alterriis integria 4—5 cm. longis 

 3-7 mm. latis utrinque obscure viridibua punetatis 1-3-nerviis Bparse 



