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glabrous or sparingly pubesceut, narrowly winged : leaves opposite, 

 simple, ovate, 5 to 14 cm. long, 2.5 to 6 cm. broad, acuminate, sharply 

 and unequally sinuate-dentate, abruptly contracted below the middle and 

 then gradually narrowed to the insertion of the petiole, hispid-pubescent 

 on both surfaces or merely hispidulous beneath : heads relatively few, 

 o'.i 3 to 8 cm. long peduncles, discoid, 12 to 15 mm. high, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. 

 in diameter, many-tlowered : involucre campanulate ; bracts of the in- 

 volucre 3-4-seriate, lanceolate, obtuse or obtusish, rather thick, densely 

 puberulent : corollas in the dried state somewhat reddish : mature 

 achenes broadly winged, 5 to 7 mm. long, nearly or quite as broad, 

 glabrous or somewhat verrucose. — V. Fraseri, Klatt, Bull. Soc. Hot. 

 Belg. xxxi. pt. 1, 205 (reprint 23) in part, not Hemsl. V. crocata, Rob. 

 & Greenm. Proc. Am. Acad, xxxiv. 537 in part, not Less. — Costa 

 Rica. "Dans les buissons a las Vueltas, Tucurrique," altitude G35 m., 

 November, 1898. Tonduz, no. 12,7(35 (hb. Gr.) ; "haiea Turrialba," 

 altitude 200 m., 6 May, 1891, Pittitr, no. 4136 (hb. Gr.) : " broussailles 

 a Buenos Aires," January, 1892, Pittur, no. 4905 (hb. Gr.). Most 

 nearly related to V. crocata, Less, with which species it has been con- 

 fused, but from which it is readily separated by the fewer seriated 

 involucre, shorter and more obtuse bracts of the involucre, simple and 

 undivided leaves, and narrowly winged petiole gradually narrowed to 

 the base. 



Garcillassa uivuLARis, Poepp. Nov. Gen. & Sp. iii. 46, t. 251. 

 With this species the writer identifies the following: Costa Rica. 

 " Bois de la vallee du Rio Tuis," altitude GOO m., November, 1893, Ad. 

 Tonduz, no. 8096 (hb. Gr., and hb. Inst. Physico.-Geogr. Cost. Ri.) ; 

 "broussailles k Tuis," altitude G50 m., November, 1897, Ad. Tonduz, 

 no. 11,482 (hb. Gr., and hb. Inst. Physico.-Geogr. Cost. Ri.). Mr. 

 Touduz's specimens agree in every detail with the original description 

 and illustration above cited. The genus is, as far as known, mono- 

 typic, and does not seem to have been hitherto recorded as occurring 

 north of the Isthmus of Panama. 



Coreopsis cuneifolia, n. sp. Suffruticose: stem covered with a 

 grayish bark, di- or trichotomously branched ; branchlets at fii-st up- 

 wardly subappressed-pubescent, later glabrate except at the nodes : 

 leaves opposite, simple at least as far as seen, cuueate or oblanceolate- 

 cuneate, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long, 6 to 1 2 ram. broad, acute, dentate in the 

 upper half with usually 7 to 9 spreading mucronate teeth, cuneate 

 and entire below, narrowed into a subpetiolate base, glabrous on both 

 surfaces or sparingly pubescent beneath, glandular-punctate : heads 



