198 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Mikania ternata (Vell.)> comb. nov. Cacalia ternata Veil. Fl. Flum. 

 (text) 336 (1825), viii. t. 56 (1827). Mikania dentata Spreng. Syst. 

 iii. 422 (1826) presumably, but scarcely of Schlecht. Linnaea, xi. 12 

 (1837), which notwithstanding the sign of affirmation employed by 

 Schlechtendal can from character hardly have related to the plant 

 described by Sprengel. M. apiifolia DC. Prod. v. 202 (1836). 



Kanimia corymbiifolia, sp. nov., herbacea perennis erecta rigi- 

 dula glaberrima 6-7 dm. alta usque ad inflorescentiam corymbosam 

 simplici, internodiis infimis brevibus (2-15 mm. solum longis), supre- 

 mis usque ad 6 cm. longitudine ; foliis oppositis erectis appressis linear- 

 ibus crassiusculis rigidulis integerrimis 3-nerviis obtusis sessilibus 4-7 

 cm. longis 1-3 mm. latis superioribus gradatim minoribus ; inflorescentia 

 trichotoma 3-11 cm. lata planiuscula 4-20-capitulata ; bracteis anguste 

 linearibus plus minusve alternis 8-12 mm. longis ; capitulis (quoque 

 cum bracteola unica arete suffulto) 1.3 cm. altis 4-floris erectis ; involucri 

 squamis ovato-oblongis crassiusculis acutiusculis 2-3 mm. latis ; cor- 

 ollis 7 mm. longis, tubo gracili 3 mm. longo, faucibus brevissimis, 

 limbi dentibus lineari-oblongis ; achaeniis immaturis 4.5 mm. longis 

 summa parte 10-costato-angulatis ; pappi setis ca. 44 rufis 6 mm. 

 longis scabridis. — Moist meadows near a brook in the Serradao near 

 Cuyab^, Mattogrosso, Brazil, February, 1889, R. Pilger, no. 220 of Dr. 

 Hermann Meyer's second Brazilian journey. Type in the herbarium 

 of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Berlin ; fragments and tracing in the 

 Gray Herbarium. A species markedly distinct in habit from its con- 

 geners, resembling in its thickish firm ribbed narrow leaves some spe- 

 cies of the African genus Corymbium. 



Kanimia violascens, sp. nov., scandens ubique a hirsutia densa 

 sordida violascenti tecta ; caule flexuoso torto multi-angulato, inter- 

 nodiis 6-9 cm. longis ; foliis oppositis petiolatis ovalibus grosse ere- 

 natis profunde cum sinu angusto cordatis ca. 4 cm. longis ca. 3.5 cm. 

 latis apice rotundatis crassiusculis bullato-rugosis ; petiolo 1.5-2 cm. 

 longo ; corymbis trichotomis axillaribus erectis ad 2 cm. longe peduncu- 

 latis cum bracteis foliaceis suborbicularibus munitis ; bracteolis parvis 

 ovalibus ; pedicellis 4-8 mm. longis ; capitulis 1.2-1.5 cm. altis 4-floris ; 

 involucri squamis oblongis apicem versus carinatis plus minusve at- 

 tenuatis sordide villoso-tomentosis ca. 9 mm. longis ; corollis 7 mm. 

 longis, tubo gracili glabro 4 mm. longo, faucibus campanulatis glabris ; 

 dentibus limbi 5 deltoideis erectiusculis apicem versus hispidulis ; achae- 

 niis 5.5 mm. longis nigris basin versus decrescentibus, costis plerumque 

 7-8 (rariter in eodem capitulo achaenio uno vel altero 5-costato) albidis 

 minutissime scabridis, pappi setis ca. 75 rufidulis corollam aequanti- 

 bus ; styli ramis gracillimis filiformibus longe exsertis et recurvatis 



