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This species is very near L. fulvo- tomentosum O. Kuntze. 
It appears by its superficial characters to be the same as Triana’s 
102 and 1140 and Kalbreyers 650. 
Liabum falcatum. 
less floccose- phe d with the exception of the 
upper leaf-surfaces. Stems erect or ascen ing, a meter high, 
only the upper pee. seen, slender, sub-quadrangular and 
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peduncled. Heads about 8 mm. long, the involucres nearly 
equaling the pappus, its scales in about 6 series, the outer short, 
ovate, acute, thick, the innermost thin, long-acuminate a and 
the involucre. Disk flowers numerous, the corollas yellow, the 
exceedingly slender tube expanded abruptly into the limb, 
which is half as long as the tube and three times as wide, and 
lobed more than half way down. Anthers small, the cells 
obtuse at the base. Style slender, little exceeding the anthers, 
its branches short. Akene small and slender, hispid. Outer 
ender, the inner copious, slender, 
short-plumose. Receptacle densely chaffy, the chaff slender, 
acuminate and acute. 
" Rare on rocks on the banks of streams in the forest, 1500- 
3,000 feet. January 20." (Herbert H. Smith, No. 2012.) 
Liabum acuminatum. 
White-floccose thiouchour except the upper leaf-surfaces. 
Stems slender, erect or ascending, angled and vag the in es 
nodes : to 5 cm. long, or the uppermost much longer. Petioles 
tiole and running near the 
Corymb terminal, linear-bracted, cie densely std 
ed, the heads core or very ncled, eee. y 
smaller corymbs in the upper axils. He about 6 Lua on 
the involucre nearly equalling the pappus, campanulate, the 
