Nova genera ot species I. 461 



Stamina corollae &ub limbo inserta. Styli rami parte iiitegra ferc duplo 

 breviores, in 2/4 superiore manifeste papillosi. Achaenia immatura. 



Hab. in Trinidad in fruticetis et sylvis ad Arima, m. Mart. flor.: 

 Eggers ed. Rensch n. 1121. 



Mikania oopctala Urb. (n. sp.) ramis lineis 6 prominentibiis plus 

 minus hexangulis, superne minute pulvorulento-puberulis, mox glabrcs- 

 centibus; pseudostipulis nuUis; foliis 2 — 0,7 cm. longe petiolatis, ovatis 

 V. ovato-ellipticis, basi subabrupte et cuneatim in petiolum protractis, 

 apice vix v. satis longe acuminatis acumine obtuso, 15 — 5 cm. longis, 

 7 — 2 cm. latis, margine integris v. obsolete crenulatis, pinnatinervibus, 

 membranaceis, supra glabris v. ad nervös obsolete pilosulis, subtus bre- 

 vissime et dense pubescentibus v. tomentosulis, laevibus; inflorescentiis 

 terminalibus et lateralibus, corymbosis, ramulis in cynias 3- raro 5- 

 cephalas excurrentibus , bracteis superioribus sicut prophylla lanceolato- 

 linearibus v. linearibus ad ramulos plus minus sursum adnatis; capitulis 

 arcte sessilibus; involucri squarais 6 — 7 mm. longis, apice obtusis v. 

 rotundatis; pappi setis 68 — 80 ad apicem parum v. manifeste incrassatis; 

 coroUa 5 — 6 mm. longa, ad v. supra medium in limbum campanulatum 

 abrupte dilatata, lobis ovatis obtusiusculis, limbo integro duplo longio- 

 ribus, erectis v. subincurvis; achaeniis 4 — 5 mm. longis glabris glan- 

 duloso-punctatis, plane maturis obtusangulis, in angulis ipsis leviter 

 longitrorsum sulcatis. 



Mikania amara Spreng. Syst. III (1826) p. 421 (p.p.); Poepp.! 

 PI. cub. in sched. (in aliis herb, ut videtur siib M. volubili distributa); 

 — non Willd. 



Mikania attenuata A. Rieh, in Sagra Cub. XI (1850) p. 43 (ex 

 descr); — non DC. 



Mikania trinitaria Oriseb.ii^^Plm^r-(i8mf-yr^4r3-{p^^Pl. Wright.f 

 p. 512 et Üat. p. 147; Sauv. Cub. n. 1207 p. 78; — non DC. 



Eupato7"ium irinitarium Maxa Cat. Periant. in Anal. Soc. esp. 

 Hist. nat. XIX (1890) p. 270 (cum var. volubilis Maxa). 



Volubilis. Rami juniores pilis brevissimis crispulis plus minus ob- 

 sessi, internodiis usque ad 15 cm. longis, ramulis serialibus obviis et plerura- 

 que evolutis. Folia nervis supra vix prominulis, lateralibus plus minus 

 arcuatis, obsolete anastomosantibus. Corymbi 4 — 7 cm. longi, interdiun 

 in panniculam amplam collecti; rhachis et ramuli breviter v. brevissime 

 l^ubescentos ; bracteaeeupliylloideae ovato-oblongae usque lanceolatae, 2 — 1 cm. 

 longae, caeterae lanceolato- lineares v. lineares; prophylla 3 — 5 mm. longa. 

 Involucri squamae anguste oblongac v. oblonge -lineares subaequilatae , aequi- 

 longae v. subinaequilongae , 5 — 7-nerves, exteriores dorso brevissime v. 

 breviter puberulae, interiores praeter apicem glabrae. Pappi setae subbi- 

 scriatae liberae manifeste spinuligerae sordide albidae v. rufescentes. Corollae 

 lobi ad apicem brevissime puberuli. Stamina corollae sub limbo inserta. 



