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( Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., U. S. Nat. Herb., and Phil. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Herb.) ; Cochabamba, March 5, 1920, Hoi way & Holway 3/1 

 (Gray Herb, and U. S. Nat. Herb.). 



Senecio Sprucei Klatt in Leopoldina 24:128. 1887. 



Peru: near Tarapota, coll. of 1855-56, Spruce 3926 (Gray 

 Herb.), co-type. 



Senecio stigophlebius Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras.6 8 :321. 1884. 

 Brazil: vicinitv of Itatiava. Julv 20-30. 1915. Rose & Russell 



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and 20549 (U. S. Nat. Herb., fragment and ph 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) 



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The plant of Hose and Russell accords with Sello's No. 2187, 

 a specimen of which is in the Gray Herbarium, which is the type- 

 number of the above species. 



Senecio Stuebelii Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 21:357. 1895. 



Colombia: wet mossy paramo, Paramo de Cruz Verde, near 

 Bogota, Department of Cundinamarca, alt. 3300-3400 m., Septem- 

 ber 20, 1917, Pennell 2055 (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., Gray Herb., 

 IT. S. Nat. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.); moist paramo, 

 southeast of Guadalupe, near Bogota, alt. 3300-3100 m., Sep- 

 tember 27, 1917, Pennell 2 J 55 (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., U. S. 

 Nat. Herb., Gray Herb., Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Herb., and Mo. 

 Bot. Gard. Herb.); Paramo de Choachi, near Bogota, alt. 3700 

 m., August 8, 1922, Killlp & Bro. Ariste-Joseph 11975 (XL S. Nat. 

 Herb.). 



Senecio subdecurrens Schz. Bip. in Bonplandia 4:55. 1850, 

 name only; Wedd. Chlor. And. 1:109. 1855-57, description. 

 S. formosus Rusby in Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4:393. 1907, not 



HBK. 



Colombia: Paramo de Buena Vista, Huila group, Central Cor- 

 dillera, State of Cauca, alt. 3000-3600 m., January, 1900, Pittier 

 1130 (U. S. Nat. Herb.). 



Ecuador: without number, coll. of December, 1876, Andre 



(Gray Herb.) ; also Spruce 6001 (Gray Herb.). 



Bolivia: without locality or date of collection, Bang 1958 (Mo. 

 Bot. Gard. Herb, and Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. Herb.). 



vlr. Bang's plant was distributed as "Senecio formosus HBK.," 



lame it may be found in herbaria 

 glomerosus Greenm., sp. nov. 



idens usque ad 3 m. altus; caulib 

 fulvo-tomentulosis; foliis alternii 



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olatis vel elliptico-lanceolatis 3-10 cm. longis 1.5-3 cm. latis 

 saepe acuminatis acutis integris juventate parce fusco-puberu- 



