TROPICAL AMERICAN EUPATOUIKA?:. 2{'hi 



obtusa niunitis; uchaoniis 5-an<;iilatis 1.2 iiiiii. longis dcorsuin dc- 

 crescentibus in costis hispiduHs; pappi setis 5 delicatule capillaribus 

 minute scabratis corollani a(>(niantibus. — Mexico: on wet rocks, 

 Barranca de Tcnanipa, Zacuapan, \'cra Cruz, March, 1910, Dr. C. A. 

 Pur pus, no. 4925 (type Gr.). 



This species, very naturally sent out as a Kupaiurium, is clearly 

 from its definite pappus-bristles of the genus Flcishmannia. It is, 

 however, certainly distinct from any hitherto described species of the 

 genus. AYhile it approaches most nearly in its general habit and 

 foliar characters F. arguia (HBK.) Robinson, it differs in many im- 

 portant characters. The heads are much more numerous, more 

 definitely aggregated into flat-topped corymbs, and are much smaller. 

 The florets are very much less numerous. The pubescence of the 

 stem is of long conspicuous jointed hairs, while in F. arguia the stems 

 are merely puberulent. 



Kuhnia oreithales, spec, no v., herbacea erecta; caule tereti 

 pluricostulato bre\issime crispeque puberulo foliaceo 4-6 dm. vel 

 ultra alto virgato vel supra mediam partem ramoso ; ramis adscendente 

 patentibus; foliis lineari-lanceolatis plerisque adscendentil)us integer- 

 rimis minute puberulis utrinque viridibus subtus paullo pallidioribus 

 crebre punctatis 5-8 cm. longis 2-6 mm. latis tenuibus 1-nerviis 

 margine paullo revolutis; capituHs ca. 18-floris thyrsoideo-corymbosis 

 graciliter pedicellatis nutantibus 11-12 mm. altis; involucri squamis 

 interioribus anguste oblongis acutis tenuibus striatis viridibus vel 

 partim purpureis subglabris sed apicem versus atomiferis et plus 

 minusve ciliolatis, squamis extimis multo brevioribus subsquarroso- 

 recurvatis; corollis ca. 6 mm. longis albidis vel purpureo-tinctis 

 glabris sed in limbo extus atomiferis; achaeniis maturitate 6 mm. 

 longis fusco-brunneis glabriusculis. — Mexico : Chihuahua : near 

 Colonia Garcia, 16 August, 1899, Townscnd & Barber, no. 260 (type 

 Gr., U. S., Mo., etc.), distributed as Colcosanthus corymbosu^, with 

 which it has no close resemblance even of general habit, not to men- 

 tion its plumose pappus. K. oreithales, in its thin smoothish leaves 

 and in habit, resembles the northeastern K. eupatorioidcs L., but it 

 differs from that species in its entire leaves and nodding heads, as 

 well as its more acute inner involucral scales; and, of course, it is 

 geographically remote. To K. oreithales may be referred the follow- 

 ing specimens: near Colonia Garcia, 1-20 x\ugust, 1899, E. W. 

 Nelson, nos. 6208 (Gr.), 6216 (Gr.); near Parral, 28 September, 1898, 

 E. H. Goldman, no. 124 (Gr.) ; Sierra Madre and Sierra Santa Barbara, 

 near La Providencia, alt. 1980-2440 m., E. W. Nelson, no. 5016 (Gr.). 



