ROBINSON AND GREENMAN. — SABAZIA. 5 



(1830); DC. Prodr. v. 496; Ilemsl. I.e. IGO. Baziasa sarmentosa, 

 Steud. 1. c. — Vera Cruz (?) : " Serro Colorado," Schiede, no. 324 

 (hb. Roy. Bot. Mus. Berlin, tracing and franfraent in hb. Gr.). Oaxaca: 

 northwest slope of Mt. Zempoaltepec, alt. 24G0 to 3080 m., Nelson, no. 

 680 (hb. Gr.). 



t- ■<- Stem erect or merely decumbent, not repent. 



5. S. Liebmannii, Klatt. Decnrabent, 3 to 4 dm. high ; stem 

 subappressed-pubescent, branching ; branches mostly simple, curved- 

 ascending, bearing at the summit solitary long-peduncled showy heads : 

 leaves lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, 3-nerved, acute, remotely glandular- 

 toothed: heads 2.7 cm. broad (including the rays); involucral scales 

 broadly elliptical, obtuse, the inner subscarious, erubescent : rays rather 

 large, internally white, externally purplish with deep violet veins: 

 achenes of both the ray- and disk-flowers entirely glabrous. — Leo- 

 poldina, xxiii. 90 (1887). Triddx Liebmannii, Sch. Bip. ace. to Klatt, 

 1. c. — JNIkxico: without exact locality, Liebmann, no. 694 (hb. Copen- 

 hagen, tracing in hb. Gr.). Oaxaca: Sierra de San Felipe, alt. 3080 

 m., Pringle, no. 4921 (hb. Gr.), alt. 1800 m., Conzatti 8)- Gonzalez, no. 

 395 (hb. Gr.), alt. 2900 to 3100 m., Nelson, no. 1126 (lib. Gr.). 



Var. heterocarpa, n. var. Achenes of the dis^k-flowers pubescent, of 

 the ray-flowers glabrous: leaves slightly more elliptic-ovate and less dis- 

 tinctly narrowed to a petiole. — Calea midtiradiata, Seaton, Proc. Am. 

 Acad, xxviii. 120 (1893), in part. Sabazia sp., Robinson & Greenman, 

 Proc. Am. Acad, xxxii. 22 (1897). — Vera Cruz: pine woods, ^Nlt. 

 Orizaba, alt. SO.IO m., Seaton, no. 167, in part (hb. Gr.). 



6. S. michoacana, Rouinson. Similar in habit to the preceding, 

 but erect from a short thickish lignescent rootstock ; pubescence of the 

 stem rather coarse and stiff, widely spreading : lower leaves cuneately 

 narrowed to slender petioles : involucral bracts strongly ciliated, some- 

 times pubescent on the dorsal surface: heads much as in the precediu'^ : 

 achenes of the disk-flowers pubescent. — Proc. Am. Acad, xxvii, 173 

 (1892); F. N. Williams, Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. 2, ii. 1020. as to 

 Pringle's no. 4099, but not as to no. 4921, nor as to Ahasoloa} — 



1 Mr. F. N. Williams, 1. c. 1019-1021, expresses the opinion that Sabazia 

 michoacana, Robinson, represented by Pringle's nos. 4099 and 4921, is tiie long 

 uncertain Ahasoloa Tahnarda, La Llave & Lex. With this view we fin<l it impossible 

 to agree. Notwithstanding some vagueness in the original description of Ahasoloa 

 (La Llave & Lex, Nov. Veg. Desc. fasc. 1, 11, 1824), enough is said to show clearly 

 that it cannot have related in anywise to Sabazia michoacana. In the first place the 



