618 LXXI. COMPOSITA. [Crepis 
4, C. Dumicola Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect, hispidulous, grey-green, sturdy herb, 10 to 14 in. 
high ; root terete, } in. thick, apparently biennial or perennial ; 
stem solitary, straight or slightly sinuous, striate, simple or 
bipartite, somewhat leafy; lower leaves rosulate, obovate not or 
searcely lobed, doubly denticulate, rounded or apiculate at the 
apex, wedge-shaped to the petioliform clasping base, 2 to 3} in. 
long by 2 to 14 in. broad, the toothlets shortly aculeiform ; 
stem-leaves smaller, rather few, suberect, oblong or lanceolate, 
sessile, clasping ; capitula cylindrical-oblong in flower, campanu- 
late in fruit, = in. long, 6 to 10-flowered, on unequal scabrid 
pedicels ranging up to 14 in. long or less, arranged in a dense or 
rather lax narrowly oblong bracteate cyme terminating the 
quasi-pedunculiform stem, the lower bracts foliaceous, the upper 
smaller; involucral scales imbricate, pauciseriate, obtuse, from 
ovate to sublinear, nearly glabrous, slightly and minutely 
glandular on the back, thinly coriaceous, narrowly scarious on 
the margin, the inner ones the longest and thinnest, elongated in 
fruit ; corollas rather exceeding the involucre; achenes ovoid- 
oblong, + in. long, at length not compressed, obtusely angular, 
suboblique, deeply furrowed, ribbed, minutely wrinkled, reddish- 
brown (in the dry state), obtusely and obliquely narrowed at the 
base, contracted at the apex into a very short beak; pappus } in. 
long, copious, whitish, somewhat spreading, setose; the sete 
slender, only microscopically barbellate ; receptacle foveolate. 
Huitia.—In thickets on the right bank of the Lopollo stream ; 
fl. and fr. Nov. and Dec, 1859. No. 3651. 
5. C. ambacensis Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect perennial herb, about 23 ft. high; root tuberous, 
milky; stem purple, terete, simple up to the inflorescence, leafy 
and puberulous below, subglabrous and naked or nearly so about 
the middle, corymbosely branched at the terminal inflorescence ; 
leaves narrowly oval-oblong, alternate, undivided, closely den- 
ticulate, apiculate at the apex, not much narrowed to the sessile 
more or less auriculate clasping base, glaucescent, glabrous or 
nearly so except along the hispid midrib, 13 to 3 in. long by } to 
3 in. broad; capitula 10- or 11-flowered, campanulate-oblong, 
1 to 2 in. long, glabrous, on short unequal puberulous pedicels, 
arranged in a rather lax terminal cyme 4 to 5 in. in diameter; 
involucral scales pluriseriate, imbricate; the inner ones linear- 
lanceolate, obtuse, about 3 in. long, 8, biseriate, glabrous or 
nearly so, somewhat thickened at the base; the outer scales 
shorter; flowers blue, about + in. long; achenes 2 in. long 
including the pappus, or 53, in. excluding the pappus, subfusiform, 
often obliquely so, scarcely at all compressed, longitudinally 
ribbed, attenuate at the apex into a short beak of ;}, in. long, 
nearly glabrous or minutely hispidulous ; pappus whitish, slightly 
coloured, copious, setose, the setee minutely barbellate. 
Ampaca.—In thickets on a clay soil near Puri Cacarambola, 
sparingly ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 3663. 
