1576 COXTRIBUTIOXS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM 



Leaves hispidulous beneath. 



Leaves lanceolate, 1.4 to 2.2 cm. wide; petioles 1 to 2 mm. 



long 46. V. angustifolia. 



Leaves lance-elliptic, 1.5 to 4 cm. wide; petioles 3 to 6 mm. 



long 47. V. cymbipalea. 



Tips of the pales not recurved. 



Leaves strigillose beneath 50. V. ortegae. 



Leaves hispidulous or pilosulous beneath. 



Leaves very rough above; pedicels spreading-pubescent. 



48, V. abscondita. 



Leaves smooth or smoothish above; pedicels apressed-pubes- 



cent 49. V. perymenioides. 



1. Verbesina crocata (Cav.) Less.; DC. Prodr. 5: 617. 1836. 

 Bidens crocata Cav. Icon. PI. 1: 66. pi. 99. 1791. 



Spilanthes crocata Sims in Curtis's Bot. Mag. 39-40: pi. 1627. 1814. 



Platypteris crocata H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 4: 201. 1820. 



Tepic to Veracruz and Oaxaca; type from Mexico, without definite locality. 



Shrubby, sometimes scandent, 2 to 5 meters high, hispidulous or hirsutulous ; 

 stems •with 4 herbaceous wings; leaves opposite, ovate in outline, the lower or 

 sometimes all deeply pinnatifid, usually 10 to 23 cm. long, the petioles broadly 

 winged; heads few to numerous, long-peduncled, orange-red, 1.5 to 3 cm. thick; 

 involucre graduate. "Capitaneja," "nahuitiput" (Urbina). 



The plant is reported to be used a remedy for wounds. 



2. Verbesina ovatifolia A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 19: 15. 1883. 

 Known only from the type locality, Chiapas. 



Suffrutescent (?), 2.6 to 3.3 meters high, scabrous; leaves ovate, acute, subses- 

 sile, denticulate; heads subcymose, short-pcduncled, about 1.2 cm. high; phyl- 

 laries small, ovate or oblong, appressed. (Description compiled.) 



3. Verbesina sphaerocephala A. Gray in S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 



428. 1887. 



Jalisco and Colima; type from Guadalajara, Jalisco. 



Suffrutescent, 2 meters high, hispidulous to pilosulous; stem narrowly 4-winged; 

 leaves opposite, ovate or rhombic-ovate, 7.5 to 14.5 cm. long, 3 to 6 cm. wide, 

 acute or acuminate, subsessile, serrate, rough above, hispidulous or pilosulous 

 beneath; heads few at apex of stem and branches, short-pediceled; involucre 7 to 

 11 mm. high, graduate, the phyllaries mostly oval or oblong, all but the inner- 

 most with blunt squarrose herbaceous tips. 



4. Verbesina langlassei Robinson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 44: 621. 1909. 

 Known only from the type locality. Sierra Madre of Michoacdn or Guerrero. 

 Similar to V. sphaerocephala; leaves lance-oblong, 8 to 13 cm. long, 2.5 to 3.2 



cm. wide; heads rather numerous, cymose-panicled at tips of stem and branches; 

 involucre about 6 mm. high, the outer phyllaries broadly obovate, herbaceous, 

 scarcely squarrose. 



5. Verbesina klattii Robins. & Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 34: 538. 1899. 

 Verbesina heterophylla Klatt, "Arbeit. Bot. Mus. Hamb. 1892-93: 3. 1893." 



Not V. heterophylla A. Gray, 1883. 



Known only from the type locality, mountains near Pdtzcuaro, Michoacan. 



Suffrutescent, 1.5 to 3.5 meters high, hirsutulous; stem rather broadly winged; 

 leaves alternate, ovate or rhombic-ovate in outline, 10 to 22 cm. long (including 

 the broadly winged petiole), 4 to 11 cm. wide, the larger 3-lobed, denticulate, 

 rough above; heads few, short-pediceled, large; involucre 1 to 1.2 cm. high, the 

 phyllaries ovate to suborbicular, obtuse or obtusish, herbaceous, subequal; rays 

 about 1.4 cm. long. 



