150 NEw SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
late. Akenes light- brown, oblong, slightly compressed, nearly 
I mm. long, minu tely hispid. Pappus w white, a out 2 m 
base. Corollas narrowly infundibular, the summit brown, 
shortly 5- duod, the lobes broadly triangular-ovate, acute, 
lightly recu 
(‘In been 4,500 feet, December 18." (Herbert H. Smith, 
Colombia, No. 606.) 
Clibadium latifolium. 
Lightly ge Nie Branches slender, obtusely angled. Peti- 
oles 2 to 5 cm. long, slender, nerved, channeled above, attached 
by a broad base, the hake 8 to 15 cm. long, 4 to 10 cm. broad, 
ovate, the rounded done abruptly produced into the petiole, 
short-acuminate at the summit, lightly crenate-serrate, thin, 
base, the venation very slender. Cymes in the upper axils 
and terminal, forming a broad panicle, long-peduncled, the 
heads somewhat crowded, subsessile, about 7 mm. long, the 
campanulate involucre half as long as the disk. Scales broadly 
ovate with rounded summit or sub-rotund, the margin minutely 
fimbriate. Outer corollas about two -thirds the length of the 
kenes ini ore strongly compressed. i pe cor- 
and bearing 2 or 3 ve ery small, weak, white 
"A shrub, 4 feet high, in open places in i alb forest on 
banks of river Buritaca, 2 miles from the sea; the flowers white; 
September 25." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 2014.) 
io ums lanceolatum. 
Strongly gru except the lower leaf-surfaces, which 
are ae: softly . Branches slender, weak and flexuous, 
long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, regularly lanceolate acuminate with 
axils, broad and loosely branched. Heads 5 mm. long and 
b 
the mit rounded but with a slight point at the center. 
Pistillate corollas 2 mm. long, infundi bulas, curved, the ovate- 
