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rather coarsely serrate-dentate (teeth deltoid, mucronulate, 
I—4 mm. high), thickish, above grayish-green, de nsely and rather 
softly velvety- pubescent with spreading several-celled hairs 
eath dens 
with glandular-tuberculate bases, ben ely and softly 
canescent-tom e rs along t 
yellowish, those along c mostly reflexed), featherveined (the 
ing g om ; 
wide; pedicels mostly 5-17 mm. long, pubescent like the stem ; 
disk 6-11 mm. high, 7-11 mm. thick: involucre about 2- Dupri 
subequal or somewhat unequal, 8-I0 mm. high, the outer 
phyllaries obovate or sometimes oblong or oblong-ovate, pees d 
or sometimes acute, indurate and pale below, herbaceous for 
their upper half, appre poche densely lanate-tomentose, the 
inner often shorter, oblong, less pubescent or nearly glabrous, 
blackish green with pale margin and short yellowish apiculation ; 
rays 8, yellow, pistillate, the lamina oval, 3.5-9 mm. long; dis 
flowers 35-48, their corollas yellow, pilose on tube and base of 
throat, 6 mm. long; pales obtuse or apiculate, with firm erect 
tips, with hoki « green center and yellowish white tip, sparsely 
pilose and ciliate, about 8 mm. long; disk achenes obovate, 
strongly compressed, see on ‘the we aria eed 2-winged, 
glabrous throughout (including wings), 6.5 mm. long, 2. 
wide; awns 2, slender, finely hispidulous, cohen 3 mm. long. 
Peru: On sunny stream bank, 4.8-9.6 km. northwest of 
Mito, Dept. Huanuco, altitude about 3355 m., Io Aug. 1922, 
Macbride & Featherstone 1935 (type no. Paes herb. Field 
Mus.; photog. and fragm. in U. S. Nat. 
The small rays of this species would oie it in Robinson and 
Greenman’s synopsis in the section Saubinetia, where its closest 
ally would be V. semidecurrens Kuntze (of which V. soratae 
Schultz Bip. is a later synonym), a species very distinct in char- 
. acter of pubescence, shape and toothing of leaves, and color of 
rays. Its real affinity is rather with the V. elegans group of 
section Verbesinaria, from all of which it differs in its decurrent 
leaves, as well as in various details. 
Verbesina saubinetioides, sp. nov. 
Suffrutescent; stem strigillose, winged; leaves alternate, 
obovate, sessile, serrate, rather sparsely strigillose; heads few 
to many, medium-sized, whitish, radiate, on pedicels ae 
I-6 cm. long; involucre about 3-seriate, barely graduate, about 
5 mm. high, the outermost phyllaries linear or linear-lanceolate, 
