CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 75 
Verbesina ampla n. sp. No. 27750, Is Barranca, Nov, 17 
19.0, ‘Tall plants, surubby veluw, with sh be corymbuse inflo- 
pre ites of many heads 1 cm Jong and se‘low rays. Leavesabout 1 
ft. i pape e rather triangular in outline, with very strong 
vei | sed aud pinnate, 5-% lobed and the lower pair of lobes the 
egal ‘wie triangular-acuminate. and coarsely few- Lae ate upper 
surface papillose-scabrous with rudimentary hairs, and lower sur- 
face velvety with short hairs. Leaves cuneate iuto ae winged 
petiole which is 1-2 inches long. Wings of stems 1 mm, high, 
thick and rounded, continuous to inflorescence. Heads very many 
on pedicels hardly 1 inch long. bracts in 3-4 series, linear to 
oblong, acutish, puberulent, lacerate, yallowin, The re>ptacular 
scales very narrow, and hyaline, with greenish, gn ie nt, not 
acerose tips, those of ray yellow and ovate, about 1 cm. long, the 
akene ctineate, 3-4 mm. long, somewhat flattened, smooth, with 
a very broad and papery ear on each side. Disk akenes linear, 
much flattened, Surrok ie ged below, slightly hes above. 
Awns strong and fully aa long as or longer than the akenes and 
subulate. Proper tube of corolla short and hairy. Stamen tube 
black and white- striped and ending in ovate ears, Also No.27699 
Viguieria triangularis n. sp. No. 27710, Arroyo Undo 
Oct. 26 1930. A shrub, 2-3 ft. high, with simple stems, and 
eis and ade ge inflorescence. Slender stems ashy, angled 
but not winged. Leaves opposite, 3-nerved, on slender and hoary 
petioles not winged and half un inch long. Leaves shinin 
both sides, but roughened by minute and rudimentary hairs on 
the nerves, acuminate, low-crenate-serrate, very rugose, about 3 
inches long, almost truncate at base, reduced ubove, Heads few 
and on almost filiform aah gon 2-3 inches long. Involucra) bracts 
narrowly linear ani lax m. long, about in one series, saieten 
longer than the disk ice which are linear, strongly nervy ed, acu 
and rather pilose on the margins. Rays elli iptical, 1 inch he 
and yellow, arora neutral, and with lacerate scales at tip of 
ukenes and noa disk flowers brown, Tho akenes with two 
etout scales or ‘ik as long as the akene, and lacerate and on the 
angles and with a few shorter linear and lacerate scales between. 
Corolla tube pubescent. scales ashy. Manifestly related toV. 
cordifolia. 
er. longiligula n. sp. No. 27708 La Barranca, 
Nov 1930. Asomewhat shrubby based herb, 3-5 ft. high, 
paniculata branched above subcorymbosely. Leaves opposite, 
pe inches long, 3-nerved, silky-velvety below and nearly smooth 
ve but covered with pustules, shortly acuminate, cuneate into 
a 5 paticle slightly winged above, Petiole about an inch long. 
Upper leaves much reduced an inclined to be lanceolate. Heads 
rather cymose,-on filiform pediceis.not over 4 inches long, few, 
