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disk-corollas a little exceeding involucre, equaling produced 
rigid tips of lacerate chaff, limb exceeding tube, lobes cano- 
hirsute: ray-akenes obovate; pappus-teeth confluent with 
wings, incurved-lanceolate, shortly-awned, connate, the lat- 
eral equaling corolla-tube: disk-akenes oblong-turbinate, 
subtriquetrous, costate, puncteolate; pappus a squamellate 
cup, exaristate or occasionally 1-awned.—Coban, alt. 4,300 
feet, February, 1886. (Ex Pl. cit. 853. 
Encelia pleistocephala.—Branches angulate, purplish, pubes- 
cent toward inflorescence: leaves alternate, scabrid above, 
upwardly barbellate, equaling corolla: abortive akenes oc- 
casionally triquetrous, unequally 2-3-aristate.— noma- 
ous inflorescence recalls several Verbesine; but technically 
distinct by neutral rays.—Rocks near Coban, alt. 4,300 feet, 
February, pony. (Ex Pl: eit. 41212) 
_ Gonolobus velutinus Schlecht., var. ¢alyeinus. — Indument 
pilose, uniform throughout. of young leaves and follicles 
dense: leaves caudate-acuminate, hairs of upper surface from 
muriculate points: calyx-lobes nearly equaling corolla, 
Toundish with caudiculate barbate apex, otherwise nearly 
smooth.—In 2458 Bourgeau, cited by Hemsl., Biol. Centr. 
Am., leaves are as in description velutinous, calyx-lobes 
Smaller and not produced.—Pansamala forest, alt. 4,000 feet, 
April, 1887. (Ex Pl. cit. 1124. 
ventricose, 1 5-17 lines long, 4-5 lines wide at throat, 
less than half way ; posterior lip retuse, rectangular: ipa 
€rous stamens half as long as the fertile.-—The oe Ly x 
ated ZL. lanceolata Benth., also collected by Mr. von Tir 
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