BLAKE: NEW SoutH AMERICAN VERBESINAS 433 
Evidently shrubby, up to 7.5 m. high; stem stout, pithy, 
striate, densely lanate-tomentose with brownish hairs; petioles 
stout, not auriculate or decurrent, Lage si like the stem, I-2.5 
cm. long; eben rhombic-oval or rhombic-oblong, 15-36 cm. 
long, 6-17.5 cm. wide, acuminate at each end, serrate or serrulate 
above the Sati owes ine (teeth poe unequal, mucronulate, 
0.5—3 mm. high, 2-4 m art), papery, above deep dull green, 
evenly sia ‘arehiee A epana tal idapitnlons. with ochroleucous hairs, 
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pilosulous (the hairs crisped, brownish along the veins), feather- 
veined, the lateral veins 10-15 pairs, prominent beneath, the 
secondaries craic heads about 7 mm. wide in flower, 
very numerous in dense cymose panicles, these terminal and 
from the upper axils, forming a compound panicle up to 30 cm. 
5-5 mm. high, the outer phyllaries oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, 
with pale base and shorter, thickened, subherbaceous, rounded 
or sometimes apiculate tip, sordid-hirsutulous, the innermost 
(subtending the rays) similar but with thin subglabrous obtuse 
tips; rays about 4, pistillate, yellow, shorter than the disk, the 
tube densely hispidulous, the lamina oblong-oval, 3 a . long, 
I.5 mm. wide, rather deeply 3-dentate, with abou 8 bro own 
nerves; disk flowers about 14, their corollas yellow, hispid. pilose 
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-nerved on fen ae bite nerves sometimes narrowly winged 
above), 5-6 mm 3-4 mm. wide (including the wings, these 
I mm. wide above fuberchlaiehisoiddious. rather broadly 
2-winged, the wings ciliolate, usually adnate to the awns at base; 
awns 2, upwardly hispidulous, unequal, 4.5 mm. long or less. 
Peru: On sunny, rocky stream bank, Mito, Dept. Huanuco, 
alt. about 2745 m., 8-22 July 1922, Macbride & Featherstone 
1500 (type no. 517999-518000, herb. Field Mus.; duplicate no. 
1,185,980, U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
The presence of small rays in this species would place it in 
the section Saubinetia in Robinson and Greenman’s revision. 
Its proper place, however, is clearly in the section Lipactinia, 
in which several species with small rays have been described. 
It is related to V. adenobasis Blake, of Ecuador, which has 
opposite leaves and much less densely pubescent involucre and 
