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acuminate lobes about a fourth of the baec strongly recurved, 
Aken 
the recurved style-branches long-exserted. enes oval, 
strongly compressed, short-stipitate, né Sterile akenes 
turbinate, half as long as their c ollas, a pappus of 
‘Coles by Herbert H. Smith in the Santa Marta moun- 
tains, but without number, locality or date. 
Baltimora ovata. 
Sparsely white-pilose on the inflorescence and younger por- 
tions and on the lower leaf surfaces, harshly strigose on the 
upper leaf-surfaces. Stems slender, 3 to 4 feet high, loosely 
flowered. Upper leaves only seen, their petioles slender, 5 to 
20 mm. long, the blades 4 to 10 cm. long, 1.5 to 4 m. bro ad, 
lance-ovate, abruptly m acuminate at the base, oce 
nate at the summit, lightly crenate-dentate or serrate, a pair of 
slender nerves starting from near the base, the venation not 
conspicuous. totes ce sparsely bracted, the peduncles 
liform, mostly 10-15 mm. long. Heads 3 to 4 mm. long and 
broad, the inVolucre approximately hemispherical- melee 
Involucral scales about * unte Or oM = nerved and 
turgid, pees bp the summit convex. Scale 
the disk flowers 2 or 3, oval, nerv 
“Common on hot a d oe icky hills within 3 or 4 
miles of the sea at Cienaga, Papare, Santa Marta, Braba, etc., 
September to November." (Herbert H. Smith, No. 536.) 
Montanoa serrata. 
Strigose throughout. 
cate, leafy, the A cet aer n sock 
ivaricate, O 
long slender pager oS 2 to 4 cm. broad, ovate, the E. biung, 
many of the smaller slightly inequilateral, pats ing acd 
nate and acute at the summit, serr ^ ith mucronate tee 
and acute sinuses, slenderly 3-nerved, t 
ous. Heads rather few, loos sly panicula, slenderly p a 
6 to 8 mm. long, exclusive 9 m an. volucre canet 
about 4 mm. broad, and 6 ong, S cales 2 or 3 "dec eis 
narrow, acuminate, ' erect g 2e upe slightly spreading y 
Branchlets ascending, slender, sul- 
ate. Petioles I to 1.5 cm 
