148 NEw SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
disposed to defer to the judgment of one so familiar with this 
group, I can scarcely believe that so strong a generic tout en- 
semble, especially when supported by this second species, should 
fail of recognition. 
Kanimia colombiana. 
Scabrous throughout, the branches numerous, erect, stout, 
leafy at the summit. Petioles 4 to 6 mm. long, very slender, 
the blades 2 to 3.5 cm. long, 6 to 10 mm. wide, lanceolate with 
acutish base and acuminate and acute summit, entire, or with 
brownish beneath, the venation obscure on both surfaces, 3- 
nerved, the midrib strong, the laterals rather faint.  Panicles 
contracted and head-like, densely flowered, somewhat leafy, 
2.5 to 3 cm. broad and high. Heads very shortly and stoutly 
peduncled or sessile, 6 mm. long, the bracts thin, ovate, acute, 
nearly as long as the involucre, which is two-thirds the length 
of the head, the scales oblong, acute, thick and rigid, strongly 
ciliate or sub-fimbriate above. Akene, in flower, a little more 
. , th a little less than 4 mm., 
the corolla-tube equaling the pappus, the lobes nearly a third 
as long as the tube, ovate, obtuse. Exserted portion of styles 
nearly as long as corolla-tube, flattened and broadened upward. 
Mature akenes not seen. 
Label lost and locality doubtful, but probably collected by 
Rusby and Pennell near Girardot, Colombia, July, 1917. 
Baccharis condensata. 
venation lightly prominent on both sides, the midrib very strong 
on the lower surface, the secondaries sub-erect, the base decurrent 
upon the midrib. Corymbs subsessile, the fertile densely 
congested, with foliage leaves intermixed, the sterile openly 
branched, densely flowered at the ends of the branches. 
terile Heads.—Involucre 5 mm. long, campanulate, the 
scales thick, appressed, acuminate and acute, the receptacle 
convex and papillose, the pappus sparse, coarse.  Corolla- 
tubes equally cylindrical, slender, 4 mm. long, the strongly 
recurved, slender, fleshy, lance-linear lobes nearly half as long. 
Style-branches slightly exceeding the corolla-tube, with brown, 
obtuse, thickened appendages. 
