STANDLEY TREES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO 15§5 



51. Verbesina fastigiata Robins. & Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 34: 558 1899 

 Mexico, without definite locality. 



Tomentulose, the young parts white-woolly; stem rather broadly winged- 

 leaves alternate; petioles winged; blades palmately 3-lobed, 8 to 20 cm.' long 5 to 

 14 cm. wide, scabrid above, loosely canescent-tomentose beneath; heads numerous, 

 m flattish fastigiate cymose panicles; involucre about 3-seriate, the phyllaries 

 narrow-ovate, acute; pales erect-tipped; rays small. (Description compiled.) 



52. Verbesina greenmani Urban, Symb. Antill. 5: 265. 1907. 



Verbesiria pinnatifida Cav. Icon. PL 1: 67. pi. 100. 1791. Not V pinnatiiida 

 Swartz, 1788. 



Western Mexico, from Sinaloa to Oaxaca; type from Mexico, without definite 

 locality. 



Shrubby, up to 6 meters high; stem pubescent to nearly glabrous, rather broadly 

 winged; leaves opposite, large, mostly 15 to 32 cm. long (including the broadly 

 winged petiole), 7 to 19 cm. wide, ovate in outline, coarsely 3-lobed to pinnatifid, 

 rough above, green or griseous beneath; heads numerous, in fastigiate cymose 

 panicles; involucre about 3.5 mm. high; rays about 3 mm. long. "Capitana," 

 "huichin" {Ramirez). 



53. Verbesina montanoifolia Robins. & Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad 34: 559 

 1899. 



Verbesina montanoifolia leptopoda Robinson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 43: 40. 1907. 



Michoacan; type from PAtzcuaro. 



Shrubby, up to 5 meters high; stem narrowly 4-winged, puberulous; leaves 

 opposite; petioles broadly or narrowly winged at least above, 1 to 3 cm. long; 

 blades broadly ovate in outline, 4.5 to 16 cm. long, 3 to 13 cm. wide, sinuately 

 3 or 5-lobed or the upper unlobed, serrate, rough above, beneath hispidulous or 

 pilosulous and densely reticulate; heads numerous, in fastigiate cymose panicles; 

 involucre about 3 mm. high; rays 3 to 6 mm. long. 



54. Verbesina trilobata Robins. & Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 32: 46. 1896. 

 Oaxaca; type from Monte Alban. 



Shrubb}^, 1.6 to 3.3 meters high; stem wingless, nearlv or quite glabrous; leaves 

 opposite; petioles winged at least above, about 2 cm. long; blades rhombic-ovate 

 in outline, 8 to 12 cm. long, about 4.5 cm. wide, 3-lobed, .serrulate, rough above, 

 griseous-hispidulous or hirsute beneath, not prominently reticulate; heads in 

 fastigiate cymose panicles; involucre 3 to 4 mm. high, the phyllaries chiefly 

 linear-lanceolate, acutish; rays 4 to 8 mm, long. 



55. Verbesina sublobata Benth. PI. Hartw. 76. 1841. 

 Chiapas. Guatemala; type from Sunil. 



Shrub about 1.5 meters high; stem densely and sordidly subtomentose-pilo.se, 

 wingless; leaves alternate, ovate in outline, up to 22 cm. long (including the 

 broadly winged petiole), 14 cm. wide, sinuately lobed, callous-denticulate, rough 

 above, sordidly pilose-tomentose beneath; heads numerous, in large rounded 

 panicles; involucre .about 3 mm. high, the phyllaries linear to oblanceolate, 

 acuminate; rays white, about 2 mm. long; achenes rather narrowly winged. 



56. Verbesina turbacensis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 4: 203. 1820. 

 Verbesina verbascifolia Walp. Bot. Zeit. 9: 63. 1851. 



Verbesina nicaraguensis Benth. in Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 



1852: 97. 1852. 

 Verbesina microcephala Benth. in Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 



1852: 98. 1852. 

 Michoac<4n or Guerrero to Veracruz and Oaxaca. Guatemala to Costa Rica; 

 Colombia and Venezuela; type from Turbaco, Colombia. 



