154 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
the involucre miss mre. 8 mm. broad, 6 mm. high, the base 
ee the scales in 2 series, green, strigose, Samni ovate, 
obtus Rays anting, Scales of the disk 3 mm. long; not 
quite MiS sha flowers, obovate, keeled, amiy ‘contracted 
into a short, blunt, broad point. Akenes (very young) small, 
"In open land near Vids 1600 feet, November 15. 
About 4 feet high." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 2719). 
Encelia soratensis. 
Scabrous throughout, the stem erect, strongly costate, the 
branches slender, strongly ascending. Leaves ogee or with 
a very short ciliate petiole, 2.5 to 5 cm. long, I cm. broad, 
ob : use, all gly nerved, the disk 
Pie CREE i sub-globose. Exserted portion of 
i. ng, one slightly toothed, the lower portion 
lightly pilose e P es Scales of the disk 7 mm. long, lance- 
ra pilose and about one-fourth the total length of the 
rolla. Corolla-lobes short, ovate, acutish, slightly recurved. 
Si bran m recurved, flattened. 
"In cultivated fields, Sorata, Bolivia, 7500 feet. October» 
1902." (R. S. Williams, No. 1346 : 
Encelia deltoidea. 
Softly pubescent throughout, the hairs of the stem divari- 
cate. oe stout, erect, angled and striate, the inter- 
nodes 6 to 8 cm. long. Pet ioles 1 to 2 m. long, eur db 
subtended by inequilaterally ovate stipulas about long 
and broad, with rounded summit. Blades 6 to 23 cm. a Jobi 4 
to 8 cm. broad, deltoid, the base sub-truncate but with a short 
very broad, cuneate projection into the petiole, the summit 
