STANDLEY TEEES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO 1511 



quinay" (Guatemala, El Salvador); "ciguapate" (El Salvador); "salvia" (Porto 

 Rico, Nicaragua); "salvia de playa," " salvia cimarrona," "salvia del pais" (Cuba); 

 "nahuapate," "suquinayo," "suquinay," "siguapete" (El Salvador). 



In the Bahamas the shrub is called "sour-bush." The flowers are said to be 

 a source of honey. In Tamaulipas an infusion of the leaves in alcohol is applied 

 externally to relieve neuralgia and rheumatism. Seler reports that in Yucatan 

 the leaves are heated and apphed hot as a hemostatic, while in the same State 

 the plant is employed as a febrifuge and emmenagogue. Descourtilz states 

 that in the West Indies the plant was used as a remedy for the bites of venomous 

 animals and that a decoction of the leaves was taken as a remedy for stomach 

 affections. 



32. ACHYROCLINE (Less.) DC. Prodr. 6: 219. 1837. 

 1. Achyrocline ventosa Klatt, Linnaea 42: 112. 1878. 



Gnaphaliumventosum SchultzBip.; Klatt, Linnaea 42: 112. 1878, as synonym. 



Known only from the type locality, Cerro Ventoso, Mexico. 



"Suffruticose," the ascending stems about 15 cm. high, white-lanate; leaves 

 lanceolate, 2.5 to 4 cm. long, about 4 mm. wide, acuminate, undulate, amplexi- 

 caul-decurrent, densely lanate, subglabi-escent above; heads about 4 mm. long, 

 cylindric, crowded in dense glomerules; involucre lanate at base, the phyllaries 

 acute, ochraceous; pistillate flowers 3, hermaphrodite 1. 



Only a fragment of the type, accompanied by sketches, has been examined, 

 and the status of the species is uncertain. 



33. QNAPHALIUM L. Sp. PI. 850. 1753. 

 Herbaceous, rarely suffrutescent, tomentose; leaves alternate, entire; heads 

 small, cymose or panicled, often glomerate; involucre graduate, of scarious phyl- 

 laries; heads many-flowered, disciform, the outer flowers pistillate, with filiform 

 corollas, the inner flowers hermaphrodite, tubular, all whitish or purplish red 

 (in the following species); anthers caudate at base; pappus setose, the bristles in 

 the hermaphrodite flowers sometimes clavellate. 

 Larger leaves 3 to 7.5 cm. long. 



Leaves obovate, about 12 mm. wide; outer phyllaries ochroleucous at base. 



1. G. eleagnoides. 

 Leaves linear or lance-linear, 6 mm. wide or less; phyllaries brown or greenish 

 brown at base. 

 Pappus bristles of the hermaphrodite flowers obscurel\- thickened toward 



tip; leaves arachnoid-tomentose above 2. G. rhodanthum. 



Pappus bristles of the hermaphrodite flowers strongly thickened toward 



tip; leaves soon glabrate above 3. G. seemannii. 



Larger leaves 2 cm. long or less. 



Leaves obovate, 3 to 8 mm. wide 4. G. concinnunj. 



Leaves linear, 2 mm. wide or less. 



Heads distinctly pedicellate 5. G. sartorii. 



Heads sessile or subsessile 6. G. lavandulaceum. 



1. Gnaphalium eleagnoides (Klatt) Blake. 



Chionolaena eleagnoides Klatt, Leopoldina 23: 88. 1887. 



Gnaphalium hypochionaeum Schultz Bip.; Klatt, Leopoldina 23: 88. 1887, as 



synonym. 

 Known only from the type localit.v, Pelado, Mexico. 



Densely leafy, white-corticate; leaves obovate, 3 to 4.5 cm. long, about 12 mm. 

 wide, acute, callous-apiculate, narrowed to the "amplexicaul" base, entire, 

 arachnoid above glabrate, beneath densely and canesccntly lanate-tomentose; 



