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loug, sparingly branched, striate, birsute-bispidulous : leaves mostl}- op- 

 posite, sessile or essentially so, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 5 cm. long, 

 1 to 2 cm. broad, acute, remotely few-dentate, dark green and birsute- 

 bispid above, paler and almost soft-birsute beueatli, cuneate to subcordate 

 at tbe base, 3-uerved, often reflexed : beads large, 1.5 to 2 cm. bigb, 

 including tbe rays -i to 5 cm. in diameter, terminating tbe stem on naked 

 8-1.") cm. long peduncles: involucre biseriate ; bracts of tbe involucre 

 unequal, foliaceous, lance-linear to narrowly oblanceolate, G to 12 mm. 

 long, birsute-pubescent: i-ay-flowers about 15, conspicuous, neutral; rays 

 lemou-yellow, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, one half as broad : disk-flowers 

 numerous : corollas deeply 5-tootbed ; teeth pubescent on the upper or 

 inner surface with long black hairs: pappus reduced to an inconspicuous 

 crown, often bearing one or two larger squamellae : achenes glabrous. — 

 Mexico. State of Sinaloa: foothills of the Sierra Madre, between 

 Rosario and Colomas, 13 July, 1897, Dr. J. N. Rose, no. 1629 (lib. 

 Gr., and lib. U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; near Colomas, 20 July, 1897, Dr. 

 J. X. Rose, no. 3224 (hb. Gr., and hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Aspilia Rosei, n. sp. SulFruticose, hirsute-hispid throughout : stems 

 as seen 1.5 to 2.5 dm. high, branched: leaves opposite, linear to 

 lanceolate, 1 to 5 cm. loug, 2 to 10 mm. broad, acute, entire or incon- 

 spicuously denticulate, strongly revolute-margined, sessile or narrowed 

 below into a short petiole, appressed-tuberculate-hispid above, rather 

 sparingly hirsute-pubescent and prominently nerved beneath : heads 

 about 1 cm. high, 1.5 to 2 cm. broad including the rays, terminating the 

 stem and branches : peduncles 0.5 to 4 cm. in length: involucre 2-seriate; 

 outer bracts of the involucre foliaceous, lanceolate or slightly spatulate, 

 8 to 10 mm. long, acute or acutish, externally birsute-pubescent, equal- 

 ling or more often slightly exceeding the inner oblong obtuse strongly 

 ciliate involucral bracts : ray-flowers 6 to 8, neutral ; rays pale yellow : 

 disk-flowers about 20: pappus of both ray- and disk-flowers a lacerated 

 crown of united scales, often with a short awn on the inner angle of 

 the disk-achenes. — Mexico. Territory of Tepic : in the Sierra Madre, 

 between Santa Gertrudis and Santa Teresa, 8 August, 1897, Dr. J. N. 

 Rose, no. 2111 (hb. Gr., and hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). State of Durango: 

 13 August, 1897, Dr. J. N. Rose, no. 2245 (hb. Gr., and hb. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.). 



Aspilia purpurea, n. sp. An herbaceous perennial, birsute-pubes- 

 cent throughout with appressed or somewhat spreading hairs: stems 

 several, erect, or ascending from a woody base, about 3 dm. in 

 length, branched above: leaves opposite, sessile or nearly so, elliptic- 



