436 BLake: NEw South AMERICAN VERBESINAS 
and appearing acute), short-ciliate, hirsutulous below or nearly 
glabrous dorsally, about 6 mm. long; achenes (immature) 
Ehendeiaieges obscurely margined but not winged, hirsutulous, 
mm. long, mm ; awns 2, slender, unequal, upwardl 
hirsutulous, ae 5 mm. long. 
Ecuador: Dry brushy land, between Santa Rosa and La 
Chorita, Prov. Oro, alt. 0-100 m., 27 Aug. 1923, A. S. Hitchcock 
21144 (type no., 1,195,584, U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
This species is of interest from its evidently close alliance 
with the Argentinian species of the Chaenocephalus macrophyllus 
group. Its heads are fewer-flowered than those of any other 
species of Verbesina, those of V. Cumingii Schultz Bip. being 5-6- 
flowered, of V. crassiramea Blake rarely 5-flowered, and of several 
other species 6—10-flowered. 
BuREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, 
WaAsHINGTON, D. C. 
