280 Ign. ürban: 



Pedis c/faveolnis Klait! in Engl. Bot. ,lahrh. VIII flSS?) p. 40. 



Pectifi Sfrarhiana Borg, et Pauls.! Vrgef. Dansk-rrstind Oer 

 (1898) p. 110, — non Lc.ss. 



Hab. in Jamaica in Hope Grounds et Hope Gai-dons, m. Febr., 

 Jul. flor.: Fawcett n. 8802, Harris n. 8616; St. Thomas: C. Ehren- 

 berg n. 11; Water Island prope St. Thomas: Börgeson (mus. Haun.); 

 St. Croix: Benzon (nins. Hann.); Bonaire in savannis: Suringar; 

 Curayao ad Gasparito, m. Jan. fl. et fr.: Suringar; Ariiba: Suringar; 

 praeterea Columbia prov. Cauca locis apertis circa Call 1000 m. alt.: 

 Lehmann n. 3407, inter Tocaima et Ibagne: Stübel n. 194"". 



Obs. Huic si^eciei exemplaria a cl. Tonduz in Costarica siib n. l.->791 

 lecta et a cl. Fkrnald in Contrib. Gray Herb. n. XXI p. .500 ad suam /'. 

 Lessingii laudata associare praefero formani squamulis pappi plerisque v. 

 Omnibus non aristato-productis. 



14. Pectis Icptocephala Urb. annua v. perennans, diffuse ra- 

 mosa, saepe procumbens et interduni basi radicans, ramis nsrpie 

 20 cm. longis teretibus v. superne plus minus compressis, sub folioriun 

 commissura brevissimo bifariam pilosis, caeterum glabris et laevibus; 

 foliis linearibus 20 — 7 mm. longis, 1,3 — 0,5 mm. latis, apice acute v. 

 obtuso mucronatis v. setaceo-mucronatis, inferne v. ad basin paribus 

 2—4 setarum ciliatis, glandulis uniseriatini juxta marginem dispositis; 

 capitulis in apice ramorum ramulorumque solitariis et saepe ramulo 

 laterali excrescente superatis v. ex angulis dichotomiarum prodeun- 

 tibus et cymose dispositis, 10 — 30 mm. longo pedunculatis, 7 — 8 mm. 

 longis, 1,2 - 1,8 mm. crassis, postremo quoque anguste cylindraceis, 

 pedunculis minute v. obsolete pilosulis, bracteas 2 — 4 subulatas et 

 supra basin saepe 2 enphylla gerentibus; involucri phyllis 5, oblongo- 

 linearibus v. sublinearibus, apice obtusis v. rotundatis, 4 — 5 mm. 

 longis, 0,7 — 1 mm. latis, dorso obtuse carinatis, glandulis oblongis 

 parcis inspersis v. deficientibus; floribus 9 — 12 in quoque capituio, 

 5 radii 3,5 — 4 mm. longis, styli ramis parte integra duplo brevioribus; 

 floribus 4 — 7 disci 2 — 2,3 mm. longis; pappi squamulis in flor. radii 2, 

 in disci 5 (raro 4), superne setiformibus, iuferne lanceolato-dilatatis 

 et hoc loco saepe longitudinaliter incisis, plerumque inaequilongis v. 

 plerisque v. omnibus ad partem basalem lanceolatam reductis; achae- 

 niis 2,5 mm. longis, breviter patenti-pilosis, pappo (si bene evolutus) 

 paullo usque fere duplo longioribus. 



Pect/s ciliaris SukI Ohs. (1791) p. 307 (c.rcL syn. Sloan); Lcs.s..' 

 in Lmnaea VII jo. 708, — non Linn. 



Chthonia leptoccphala Cass. in Dict. Sc. nat. vol. XXVII (1823) 

 p. 206 (ex descr). 



