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EUPATORIUM AGERATIFOLIUM DC, var. piirpuremil nov. 



var. — Inflorescence with a dense purple glandular pubescence 

 and the involucral bracts purple. — Coban, Depart. Alta Ver- 



apaz, alt. 4600 feet, May, 1887 (Turckheim 52). 



Briekellia Pacayensis n. so. 



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wegi {Eitpatorium rigidum Benth. PI. Hartw. 88) but the 

 whole upper part of the plant is blackened with stipitate 

 glands, the heads are 20 to 30-flowered, and the involucral 

 scales are often much narrowed (linear- lanceolate to linear), 

 longer, and more decidedly acuminate: the pappus is minutely 

 but densely serrulate and the achenes densely soft pubescent. 

 " acaya, Depart. Amatitlan, alt. 6000 feet, March, 1*90 



D. S. 2380). 

 Aplopappus STOLONIFERUS DC, var. glabra to 8 nov. var. 



Leaves glabrate, not all "very hirsute" as in the type.-^- 

 curious and handsome Aplopappus found on the crater of 



Volcan de Agua, Depart. Zacatepequez, alt. 12100 feet, 



April, 1890 (J. D. S. 2328). 



Aphniiostephus Pinulensis n. sp. — A stout very leafy and 



branching perennial 3 to 4.5 dm. high, rather glaucous and 



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softly pubescent, the young leaves and branches and inflores- 

 cence more or less floccose : leaves punctate, lance-ovate to 

 obovate in outline, the lower (blade) 9 cm. long, and on long 

 petioles, gradually becoming smaller upwards, bipinnatifid, 

 the oblong obtuse pinn;e more or less confluent and irregularly 

 pinnately cleft and toothed (the whole plant with its conspic- 

 uous heads having an Achillea look): heads on short peduncles 

 collected in a terminal corymbose cluster : bracts of the in- 

 volucre lanceolate and strongly carinate : rays 5 to 8 mm. 

 long, white, mostly reflexed with age : base of the corolla- 

 tube in age prominently thickened and indurated, more or le- 

 persistent on the strongly angulate-costate whitish achene : 

 pappus a very short crown with toothed edere. -*■ Pinula, 

 Depart. Guatemala, alt. 4400 feet, Feb., 1890 



A remarkable looking Aphanostephus on acco u ,. L u* u, 



bipinnatifid leaves. 



Clibadium DonneU-Kniitliii n. sp— Stem and inflorescence 



hirsute : leaves broadly ovate, mostly long-acuminate, with 

 spinulose-crenulate serrulations, velvety pubescent beneath 

 (even hirsute on the veins), scabrous above, 12 to 25 cm. long. 

 6 to 16 cm. broad, on long petioles : heads 4 to 5 mm. high. 



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