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at the end of the branches; peduncles 1-3 cm. long; involucre campanulate, 6-7 mm. high, 
6-7 mm. broad; bracts 5, elliptic to oblong-obovate, rounded at the apex, obtusely keeled, 
ciliate, more or less purple-tinged, glabrous; ray-flowers 5; ligules orange, oblong, 6-7 mm. 
long, 3-4 mm. wide; disk-flowers 10-20; corollas 5-6 mm. long; achenes 5 mm. long, villous; 
pappus-bristles many, 3-4 mm. long. 
Type Locatity: Valley of Mexico. 
DIETRIBUTION: State of Mexico to Puebla. 
33. Pectis repens Brand. Zoe 5: 241. 1906. 
A prostrate spreading perennial; stem 2-3 dm. long, sometimes rooting at the nodes, 
slightly puberulent; leaves fasciculate, 1-2 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, serrate, with several pairs 
of long bristles below the middle, mucronate, revolute-margined, with 2—4 rows of small glands; 
peduncles 1-3, terminal or from short leafy branches, 10-12 cm. long; involucre campanulate, 
8 mm. high; bracts 4 or 5, oval, obtuse, glandless, slightly pubescent at the purple apex, finely 
striate, scarious-margined, and keeled near the base; ray-flowers 5; ligules 8 mm. long, 
purple outside, yellow within; disk-floweas 15-25; corollas 6 mm. long, bilabiate with 
one of the lobes separated from the rest to near the middle; achenes 6 mm. long, crisp-pubescent; 
pappus of the ray-flowers of two awns, abruptly dilated at the base and about 20 shorter 
bristles; that of the disk-flowers of about 20 unequal bristles. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cofradia, Sinaloa. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
34. Pectis canescens H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 4: 263. 1820. 
Lorentea canescens Less. Linnaea 5: 135, 1830. 
Stammarium hyrsopifolium Willd.; Less. Linnaea 5: 135, assynonym. 1830. 
Chthonia canescens Cass.; B. D. Jackson, Ind. Kew. 1: 532, assynonym. 1893. 
A diffuse perennial, with a woody cespitose base; stem 1—2 dm. long, decumbent, canes- 
cent, pilose; leaves linear, about 2 cm. long, more or less hirsutulous, thick, with prominent 
midrib and revolute margins, often somewhat toothed, spinulose-tipped and with 3-6 pairs 
of bristles towards the base; glands inconspicuous, scattered; heads on solitary peduncles 
from the upper axils; peduncles 5-12 cm. long; involucre campanulate, 5-7 mm. high and 
nearly as broad; bracts 5-7, oblong or elliptic, rounded at the apex, usually puberulent; ray- 
flowers 5-7; ligules about 7 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; disk-flowers 15-20; corollas 6 mm. long; 
achenes 5 mm. long, hirsute; pappus of the disk-flowers of about 20 bristles, 5 mm. long; that 
of the ray-flowers similar but much shorter. 
TYPE LocaLity: Chilpancingo, Mexico. 
DiIsTRIBUTION: San Luis Potosi and Tepic to Guerrero. 
ILLUSTRATION: H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. pl. 393. 
35. Pectis saturejoides (Mill.) Schultz-Bip.; Seem. Bot. Voy. 
Herald 309. 1857. 
Inula saturejoides Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. 8, Inula no. 8. 1768. 
Inula Satureia Spreng. Syst. 3: 520. 1826. 
Lorentea saturejoides Less. Linnaea 5: 135. 1830. 
Lorentea auricularis DC. Prodr. 5: 102. 1836. 
Pectis auricularis Schultz-Bip.; Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 309. 1857. 
Pectis canescens villosior Coult. Bot. Gaz. 20: 52. 1895. 
A low diffuse perennial, with cespitose woody caudex; stem leafy, 1-2 dm. high, retrorsely 
canescent-hirsutulous; leaves linear, 1-2 cm. long, 1.5—2 mm. wide, spinulose-tipped, hirsutu- 
lous on both sides, rather thick, revolute-margined, with inconspicuous scattered glands 
and 4-6 pairs of bristles; heads solitary on axillary peduncles 4-7 cm. long; involucre 
campanulate, 6-7 mm. high, 7-8 mm. broad; bracts 7-12, linear, acute, hispidulous or rarely 
glabrate; ray-flowers as many; ligules oblong, 5-6 mm. long; disk-flowers many; corollas 5 mm. 
long; achenes 4 mm. long, hirsute; pappus of the disk-flowers of about 20 unequal hispidulous 
bristles, the longest 4-5 mm. long; that of the ray-flowers wanting or represented by a mere 
border. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Vera Cruz. 
DistTRIBuTION: Southern Mexico and Guatemala. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Houst. Reliq. pl. 19; Linnaea 5: pl. 2, f. 7-12. 
