1596 COXTEIBUTIOXS FROM THE NATIONAL HEEBARIUM 



17. Galea manicata (Schlecht.) Benth. & Hook.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. 

 Bot. 2: 206. 1881. 



Tetrachyron manicatum Schlecht. Linnaea 19: 744. 1847. 



Veracruz; type from temperate Mexico, without definite locality. 



Shrub up to 4 meters high, nearly glabrous; branchlets angulate; leaves lance- 

 olate, 7 to 12 cm. long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. wide, acuminate, sessile or short-petioled, 

 auriculate-clasping at base, serrate; heads yellow, turbinate, radiate, numerous 

 in flatfish terminal panicles; ra\-s about 12; pappus of 4 unequal paleaceous 

 awns, half as long as the achenes or less. 



18. Galea orizabaensis Klatt, Leopoldina 23: 145. 1887. 



Tetrachyron orizabaense Schultz Bip.; Klatt, Leopoldina 23: 145. 1887, as 

 synonym. 



Volcdn de Orizaba, altitude 2,440 to .3,050 meters. 



Branches villous, pentagonal; lower leaves petioled, the blades 12.5 cm. long, 

 7.5 cm. wide, sinuate-undulate, pilose on the nerves beneath; rays 4 or 5; pappus 

 awns 4, linear-lanceolate, shorter than the achene. (Description compiled.) 



19. Galea rupestris T. S. Brandeg. Zoe 5: 258. 1908. 

 Puebla; type from Boca del Monte. 



Small shrub; branches glabrous, striate; leaves petioled, the blades ovate, 

 about 5 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide, acute, serrulate, coriaceous, pilose on the 

 nerves beneath; heads radiate, numerous in a flatfish terminal panicle; achenes 

 about 3 mm. long; pappus of about 7 to 10 unecjual awns and squamellae, 1.2 

 mm. long or less. 



20. Galea pachyphylla (Klatt) Blake, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 22: 647. 1924. 

 Aspilia pachyphylla Klatt, Leopoldina 23: 143. 1887. 



Actinomeris pachyphylla Schultz Bip.; Klatt, Leopoldina 23: 143. 1887, as 

 synonym. 



Altamirania pachyphylla Grecnm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 39: 106. 1903. 



Aspiliopsis pachyphylla Greenm. Bot. Gaz. 37: 222. 1904. 



Oaxaca; type from Santa Gertrudis. 



Suffrutescent, nearly glabrous throughout; leaves short-petioled, the blades 

 cuneate-obovate or oblanceolate, 5 to 12 cm. long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. wide, acute, 

 serrate, coriaceous, feather-veined; heads about 8 in a subternate terminal 

 panicle, radiate; achenes 3 to 4 mm. long; pappus of 2 or 3 awns 1.5 mm. long, 

 and on each side between them 1 or 2 lacerate squamellae about half as long. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 

 Galea cacosmoides Less. Linnaea 5: 157. 1830. 



Known only from the type locality, near Jalapa, Veracruz. 



Leaves obtuse or acute at base, sharply serrate, subglabrous, lucid above; 

 heads cylindric, radiate, about 12-fiowered. (Description compiled.) 

 Galea liebmannii Schultz Bip.; Klatt, Leopoldina 23: 145. 1887. 



Known onh* from the type locality, Gualulu, Mexico. 



Leaves petioled, the blades ovate-elliptic, 5 cm. long, 1.8 cm. wide, coriaceous, 

 glabrous above, ferruginous and gland-dotted beneath; heads cylindric, 6- 

 fiowered, short-pediceled, umbellate-cymose; phyllaries somewhat refiexed at 

 apex; pappus squamellae 10, short. (Description compiled.) 

 Galea sessiliflora Less. Linnaea 5: 158. 1830. 



Chrysosphaerium gnaphalioides Willd.; Less. Linnaea 5: 158. 1830, as synonym. 



Mexico, without definite locality. 



Shrub; leaves at base very obtuse and subcordate; heads cylindric, discoid, 

 10-flowered. (Description compiled.) 



