BLAKE: NEW SoutH AMERICAN VERBESINAS 427 
Stone 195 (type no. 516728, herb. Field Mus.; duplicate no. 
1,185,439, U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
Described on the labels as a fragrant, coarse half-shrub 
4-5 ft. high. In Robinson and Greenman’s synopsis of the genus, 
this species enters the section Pseudomontanoa. It is well char- 
acterized by the shape and pubescence of its leaves. 
Verbesina nudipes, sp. nov. 
_“Shrubby;”’ stem angled, rather Lanta sordid-hirsutulous 
with mostly sata hairs; leaves alternate, large, oval-oblong, 
obscurely serrulate, hars above, sordid-hirsutulous chiefly on 
Stem stout (1 cm. thick), pithy, strongly ee above, fiero 
but not densely pane ahead ith mostly appressed hairs to the 
inflorescence, glabrate below; in eis usually about pe cm 
long; petioles a rae ini, slender, 4-5.5 cm fag oe blades 
oval-oblong, 16.5-20 cm. long, 6.5—8.5 cm. wide, short- -acuminate, 
rounded-cuneate or cuneate at base, serrulate (teeth about 0.5 
mm. high, 3-6 mm. apart), firm-papery, above deep brownish 
green, somewhat shining, e venly and harshly hispidulous with 
mostly antrorse hairs with Sevatient tuberculate bases, beneath 
brownish green, hirsutulous along all the veins and veinlets 
with spreading, tuberculate-based, brownish hairs, jeathervaet 
the chief veins about Io pairs, curved-a anastomosing, with the 
secondaries prominulous-reticulate; heads about 1.3 cm. wide, 
ve merous in axillary and terminal cymose patinies & forming 
oO. 
branches, and pedicels (these very slender, usually 8-15 mm. long) 
densely sordid-hirsutulous with as several- celled, spreading 
hairs; disk about 8 mm. high, 5 mm. thick; involucre 3-seriate, 
gr. raduate, hah 5 mm. high, the ie lates of the 2 outermost 
series linea r linear-oblong, hirsutulous, with pale base and 
selene unequal, 4-5 mm. ong. 
Colombia: In thicket, La Cumbre, Dept. El. Valle, Cordillera 
