434 BLAKE: NEW SoutH AMERICAN VERBESINAS 
pales, and to V. flavovirens R. E. Fries of Bolivia and V. lloensis 
Hieron. of Ecuador. V. flavovirens is described as herbaceous, 
1.5 m. high, with alternate, opposite, or ternate leaves pubes- 
cent only on the veins beneath, while V. Ilcensis has narrower 
leaves, linear or linear-lanceolate phyllaries, and acute pales. 
The label of the type collection of V. grandifolia describes it as 
reaching 25 ft. in height and gives the vernacular name as 
‘““wampu.”’ The stem is described as branched only in the in- 
florescence, the new shoots being unbranched. The rays and 
disk corollas appear to have been greenish-yellow. 
Verbesina brachypoda, sp. nov. 
ut 4 mm. high, the phyllaries mostly 
oblong, obtuse or rounded, blackish green, ciliolate, sparsely 
pubescent on back; achenes distinctly winged. 
hrubby (?), 3 m. high; stem (or branch) stoutish, 5 mm. 
thick, pithy, griseous-pilosulous with crisped many-celled hairs, 
about 4-winged to the inflorescence, the wings herbaceous, 1-2 
mm. wide; petioles winged to base, not auriculate, 5-15 mm. 
long, 4-12 mm. wide, the wings long-decurrent; blades ovate or 
broadly ovate, the larger 8-17.5 cm. long, 4-5-10 cm. wide, 
acute, apiculate, at base broadly rounded or cuneate-rounded 
and often unequal, decurrent on the petiole, serrate above the 
usually entire base (teeth low, apiculate, about 0.5 mm. high, 
mostly 3-6 mm. apart), firm-papery, above yellowish green, 
harshly tuberculate-hispidulous, beneath densely subtomentose- 
pilose with many-celled, mostly spreading hairs, featherveined 
or obscurely triplinerved, the chief veins 3-4 pairs, prominulous 
late (styles short, included), the tube hirsute, the lamina elliptic 
or oval, 2~3-dentate, 4—6-nerved, 5 mm. long; disk flowers 11-12, 
