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Trichogonia rhadinocarpa, n. sp., suffrutescens ramosa; ramis 

 subsimplicibus teretibus striatis viridibus puberulis foliosis ; foliis 

 alternis lanceolati-oblongis crenato-serratis ad apicem obtusiusculum 

 angustatis basi rotundatis vel breviter abrupteque euneatis petiolatis 

 utrinque pubescentibus et glanduloso-atomiferis viridibus subtus vix 

 pallidioribus merabranaceis 3-5.5 cm. longis 1.3-2.5 cm. latis, petiolo 

 8-15 mm. longo subtomentoso ; inflorescentia terminali corymbosa ca. 

 16-capitulata, bracteis filiformibus 3 mm. longis, pedicellis filiformibus 

 plus minusve flexuosis ca. 7 mm. longis ; capitulis ca. 18-floris 8-10 mm. 

 altis ; involucri turbinato-campanulati squamis linearibus vel anguste 

 oblanceolatis attenuatis ca. 7 mm. longis subuniseriatis dorso leviter 

 nervatis puberulis apice tomentosis purpurascentibus ; corollis angustis, 

 tubo proprio gracili glaberrimo, faucibus brevissimis, limbo purpureo- 

 tomentoso; achaeniis 4 mm. longis nigris 5-angulatis basi longe 

 attenuato-stipitatis angulis obsolete scabratis ; pappi setis phimosis 

 sordide albis 4 mm. longis basi brevissime connatis. — T. podocarim 

 Bak. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 2, 216 (1876) pro parte, non Sch. Bip. — 

 Near Tovar, Venezuela, Fendler, n. 651 (hb. Gray) ; Mariara, Venezuela, 

 800 m. alt., Aug. 1899, Preuss, n. 1508 (hb. BeroL); Ocana, Prov. 

 Ocaha, Colombia, SchUm, n. 178 (hb. Kew,). The Fendler specimen was 

 taken to Geneva and carefully compared with the type of T. podocarpa 

 Sch. Bip. {Kuknia podocarpa DC.) and it was found to be clearly a 

 distinct species, differing in various ways but most strikingly in its 

 densely tomentose corollas. In the type of T. j)odocarpa the corollas 

 are covered on the outside by large scattered waxy atoms but are other- 

 wise glabrous. From T. campestris Gardn., T. rhadinocarpa differs in 

 its much broader leaves, longer and more tapering achenes, etc. 



EuPATORiUM ALTissiMUM L. Syst. cd. 12, 537 (1767). By the Index 

 Kewensis, i. 915, this is referred to B. ageratoides L. f., but this is 

 clearly a mistake. In the 12th edition of the Systema, p. 537, the 

 description of JE. altissimum is identical with the description of the 

 same species in the first edition of the Species Plantarum, and it can 

 be construed only as relating to the lanceolate-leaved plant which still 

 very properly bears the name B. althshnum. 



Eupatorium auriculatum Vahl, Symb. Bot. iii. 95, t. 72 (1794); 

 DC. Prod. V. 174 (1836) ; Bak. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 2, 340 (1876) ; 

 not Lam. This species, said by Vahl to come from Brazil, was fully 

 described and clearly figured by him. It has, however, not been 

 rediscovered since its description a century ago and has remained 

 entirely obscure. Suspecting from Vahl's figure that the plant was 

 not really a Bupatorium but a Senecio, the writer, with the aid of 

 Dr. Greenman, who has a special knowledge of the latter genus, made 



