l8 9i J Composite from Guatemala. 101 



densely whitish woolly beneath, 9 to 15 cm. long, 8 to 11 cm. 

 broad, on stout petioles : heads 8 to 10 mm. high, in a large 

 terminal very compact panicle : involucral bracts lanceolate, 

 hirsute and purple-tipped : ray-flowers <> to 8, with narrowly 

 oblong yellow ligules 4 to 6 mm. long; disk-flowers 12 to 10. 

 -^-Volcan de Agua, Depart. Zacatepequez, alt. 11000 feet, 



April, 1890 (J. D. S. 2362). Near S. Aschenbomianus Schauer, 



but differs in being stouter, with much more compact inflores- 

 cence, leaves very smooth above and densely woolly beneath, 

 hirsute purple-tipped involucral scales, and more numerous 

 disk-flowers. A very striking and handsome species. 



SENECIO GHIESBREGHTH Hort. Hal. Regel (S. gyandij 'alius 

 of authors, not Less.)— Specimens from Serraquitche, Depart. 

 Alta Verapaz, alt. 2500 feet, {J. II S. 1598), show that the 

 characters of the species must be made to include not only 

 ovate, but also elongated ovate or even obovate leaves, 

 which are often acute at base as well as apex, and whose 

 margins vary from sinuate-dentate to entire. These Guate- 

 malan specimens also show that the disk-flowers maybe fewer 

 than 10, most of the heads containing but 5 or 6. 



SENECIO GHIESBREGHTII Hort. Hal. Regel, van paufiflorus 



n. van — Differs from the species in having fewer-flowered 



heads and hairy involucral bracts. — Sapote, Depart. Guate- 

 mala, alt. 4800 feet, March, 1890 (J. IX S. 2359); Chucaneb, 

 Depart. Alta Verapaz, alt. 6000 feet, April, 1889 {J. D. S. 

 1606). 5. Ghicsbrcghtii has \ to 6 ray-flowers and 10 disk- 

 flowers ; while the variety has uniformly 2 ray-flowers and 

 ;J > disk-flowers. 



Senedo Colmiiciisis n. sp. — A woody-stemmed glabrous 

 and very leafy plant: leaves scattered, thickish, elongated, 

 narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate and acuminate, on slender 



petioles, usually with distant serrulatioiis, 10 to 14 cm. long, 



2 to 2.6 cm. broad, readily tailing off and leaving the stem 

 covered with prominent scars : heads discoid, about mm. 

 high, in terminal rather loose corymbose panicles: involucral 

 bracts about as long as the head, linear-oblong, obtuse or 

 acutish, thick and rigid, keeled and somewhat saccate below 

 forming a truncate base to the head), often with very small 

 accessory bractlets : disk-corollas about 6, deeply 5-Iobed, 



the lobes usually with inflexed tips: achenes glabrous*-* 

 Cohan, Depart. Alta Verapaz, alt. 4800 feet, May, 1887 



