422 BLAKE: NEW SouTH AMERICAN VERBESINAS 
few-ribbed base and shorter subherbaceous obtuse or rounded 
ti in Ss 
ays 
hirsutulous tube I mm. long, the lamina narrowly elliptic, 12 
mm. long, 3 mm. wide, 3-denticulate, about 8-nerved, hirsutulous 
on back; disk flowers about 40, their corollas slender, hirsutulous 
below, 6.8 mm. long (tube 1.5 mm., teeth 1.3 mm.); pales acutish 
or obtuse, narrow, hirsutulous and ciliolate, blackish green 
above, about 9 mm. long; ray achenes (very immature) trigonous, 
epappose, somewhat hispidulous; disk achenes cuneate-obovate, 
ery flat, 6 mm. ste Re 2.5 mm. wide arid wings), hispidu- 
lous above, rather narrowly 2-winged (wings 0.8 mm. wide or 
less, Seisokt inapdaliokits above); awn I, se the outer angle, 
usually lance-subulate, upwardly hispidulous, 4 mm. long, 
sometimes (eratologially?) on to a triangular or oblong 
lacerate squamella 0.8 mm. long. 
Peru: On gravelly stream bank, Cushi, Dept. Huanuco, alt. 
about 1525 m., 19-23 June 1923, J. F. Macbride 4822 os no. 
535859, herb. Field Mus.; duplicate no. 1,191,517, U. S. Nat 
erb.). 
Rather closely related to the Brazilian V. glabrata Hook. & 
Arn., of the section Verbesinaria. In that plant the stem is 
shack sabesceht or glabrate, the leaves are much less pubescent 
beneath, and the pappus awns are 2 and subequal. The pappus 
of V. Macbridei, when reduced to a single squamella, is very 
similar to that of the recently described genus Monopholis, but 
the achenes and disk corollas are entirely different from those 
of that genus. 
Verbesina malacophylla, sp. nov. 
Suffrutescent, 2 m. high; stem cinereously pilose-tomentose, 
winged by the decurrent leaves; leaves mostly alternate, oblong- 
ovate, sessile, decurrent but not auriculate, Serta dentate, 
velvety above, canescent-tomentose beneath; heads medium- 
sized, radiate, yellow, about 50-flowered, numerous in terminal 
panicles; outer phyllaries obovate, 8-10 mm. long, rounded, 
densely es the inner oblong, aeat 
achenes vais aie Be nged. 
tems i cate nbranched,”’ rather stout, — densely 
and canine pilose-tomentose with reflexed matted hairs 
(these more or less deciduous in age, leaving ae a tuber- 
culate bases), na fecal winged; leaves alternate or sometimes 
opposite, epiiag oh or the upper lance-ovate, 9.5-18 cm. 
long, 2.5-7 ae sessile, acute or acuminate, rounded at 
base and longedeeeest on the stem (wings 2-4 mm. wide), 
