BLAKE: NEW SouTH AMERICAN VERBESINAS 425 
Nearest Verbesina saubinetia Klatt (Saubinetia helianthoides 
Remy), of the Province of Coquimbo, Chile, known to me only 
from description. This species agrees in most features with 
V. saubinetioides, but is said to have hirsute-subvelvety leaves, 
tridentate pales, mostly sterile disk flowers, disk corollas pubes- 
cent throughout their length, 2-awned ray achenes, and I- 
awned disk achenes. The Wilkes plant was identified doubtfully 
by Dr. Gray as V. helianthoides H. B. K. (=V. Humboldiii 
Spreng.), an entirely different species. 
Verbesina altipetens, sp. nov. 
anches sordid- tomentose; leaves opposite; petioles naked; 
below inflorescence seen) opposite; petioles 1.5 cm. fee SF ed 
cent like the branches; blades lance-elliptic, 9.5 cm. long, 2 cm. 
wide, subentire or with a few small sharp teeth above the middle, 
heads about 1.3 cm. wide, about 13 in a terminal flattish panicle 
II cm. wide, its lowest branches subtended by somewhat reduced 
shed — els 0.5—3 cm. long, pubescent like the branches, na- 
edo 
the 
wide) Herbaceous: loose or spreading, acute, densely and sordidly 
hirsute-pilose on n both faces, the innermost (subtending t the rays) 
— but more nearly lanceolate, not spreading; rays about 7, 
equaling or shorter than the mature disk, pistillate, yellow (or 
Spice (aint the eae Vea 2.5 mm. long, the lamina 
linear, 6 mm. long, 1.2 wide, 3-dentic ulate, 3-nerv 
pilose on back; disk flowers scarey 2 5: their corollas yellow (teeth 
apparently blackish green), pilose on tube and sparsely so on 
throat and teeth, at maturity 8 mm. Poe ng (tube 2.5 mm., throat 
4.5 mm., teeth 1 mm.); pales acuminate, blackish green above, 
hispid- pilose along back and on upper margin, 11 mm. long; 
disk achenes (immature) linear-cuneate, obsoletely winged, 
glabrous, 5-6 mm. long; awns 2, slender, upwardly — 
equal or Rg 4.5-6.8 mm. eae ng. 
