432 BLAKE: NEW SouTH AMERICAN VERBESINAS 
rounded auricles about 6 mm. wide), about 26 cm. wide, pinnately 
9-lobed (lobes lanceolate or oblong, 7.5-13 cm. long, 2.5-7.5 cm. 
wide, acuminate, serrate or the lower sometimes repandly about 
upper part of the branches and the pedicels (1-3 mm. long) 
cinereous-puberulous; involucre about 3-seriate, graduate, 3 mm. 
ceous-tipped, obtuse, hispidulous and ciliate, the inner oblong 
obtuse to acute, whitish-stramineous, ciliate, sparsely hispidulous 
dorsally ; corollas white, hirsute-pilose on tube and to middle of 
side, hispidulous on wings and toward apex, 2.5 mm. long; awns 
2, upwardly hispidulous, unequal, about 2 mm. long. 
Ecuador: Guayaquil, alt. 0-50 m., 18-26 June 1923, A. S. 
Hitchcock 20159 (type no. 1,195,177, U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
ike V. crassicaulis, described above, this species is techni- 
cally referable to the section Lipactinia on account of its discoid 
eads, but is really more closely allied to the V. gigantea group 
of section Ochractinia. The only closely related members of the 
section Lipactinia are V. bipinnatifida Baker, of Brazil, which 
has the leaves griseous-pubescent beneath and the achenes dis- 
tinctly winged, and V. crassicaulis, described above, which has 
larger heads and leaves griseous-pilosulous beneath. Its nearest 
ally in the section Ochractinia is V. myrtiocephala Schultz Bip., 
which has radiate, about 20-flowered heads, and a different 
pubescence on the lower leaf surface. 
Verbesina grandifolia, sp. nov. 
Very tall; ak sordidly lanate-tomentose; leaves alternate, 
very large, rhombic-oval or rhombic-oblong, serrate above the 
