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40. Pectis capillipes (Benth.) Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 
DDD GS lie 
Lorentia capillipes Benth. in Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1852: 70. 1852. 
A suffruticose perennial; stem branched, erect, 7-12 cm. high, scarcely puberulent; leaves 
linear, ridged, 1.5-2 cm. long, about 2 mm. wide, with strong midrib and several bristles at 
the base; glands many; heads solitary in the forks; peduncles slender, 3—5 cm. long; involucre 
turbinate; bracts 5, oblong, obtuse; ray-flowers 5; pappus of the disk-flowers of 5 or 6 
stouter bristles, somewhat dilated at the base, and many shorter ones; those of the ray-flowers 
somewhat fewer. (Description adapted from that of Bentham.) 
‘TYPE LocaLity: Chinotega, Segovia, Guatemala. 
DISTRIBUTION: Guatemala. 
41. Pectis pusilla Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 282. 1907. 
A prostrate or ascending annual; stem 2—3.5 cm. long, branched, retrorsely short-pilose, 
4-angled above; leaves linear, 7-15 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. wide, with 5—7 pairs of bristles along 
the margins from the base to near the apex; glands in a single row on each side or some 
scattered; heads solitary at the ends of the branches; peduncles 1—2 cm. long; involucre sub- 
cylindraceous, 6-6.5 mm. high, 3-3.5 mm. broad; bracts 5, oblong-linear, acute or obtuse, 
obtusely carinate on the back, glandless; ray-flowers 5; ligules oblong-elliptic; disk-flowers 
about 10; corollas 3.5—-4 mm. long, the limb 4-toothed; achenes 3.5 mm. long, short-pilose; pap- 
pus of 25-35 bristles, very unequal, 0.5-4 mm. long, the longer often somewhat dilated at 
the base, scabrous-hispidulous. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Petite Riviére de Bayonnais, Haiti. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
42. Pectis juniperina Rydberg, sp. nov. 
An intricately branched annual, forming cushions; stem branched at the base, about 1 dm. 
high, puberulent; leaves linear or linear-subulate, 1-1.5 cm. long, arcuate, spreading, with 
thick midrib and margins, attenuate, bristle-tipped, with 3—5 pairs of bristles towards the base; 
glands inconspicuous, in a single row along each margin; heads solitary at the ends of the 
branches; peduncles 1—2 cm. long; involucre 5-6 cm. high, about 3 mm. broad, narrowly 
turbinate-campanulate; bracts 5, oblong-oblanceolate, rounded and mucronate at the apex, 
keeled below; ray-flowers not seen; disk-flowers 5 or 6; corollas 5 mm. ea achenes 4 mm. 
long, ina ravine pappus-bristles 30-40, about 4 mm. long. 
Type collected between Laguna del Bufeo and Laguna Alcatraz Grande, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 
December 16, 1911, J. A. Shafer 11013 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
43. Pectis puberula Greenman, Proc. Am. Acad. 40: 49. 1904. 
A slender annual; stem 1—2 dm. high, puberulent, often purplish; leaves linear or lance- 
linear, 1-3 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, acute, with a single row of glands on each side and 1-4 
pairs of bristles near the base, glabrous on both sides, but slightly hirtellous on the margins 
and the midrib beneath; heads on solitary axillary peduncles 3-4 cm. long; involucre about 4 
mm. high and 3 mm. broad, turbinate; bracts 8, obtusely keeled, blunt, glabrous; ray- 
flowers 8; ligules 2 mm. long; disk-flowers about 15; corollas 3 mm. long; achenes 2.5 mm, 
long, puberulent; pappus of the disk-flowers of many, of the ray-flowers of 2 slender bristles, 
about 2 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Lodiego, Sinaloa. 
DISTRIBUTION: Sinaloa. 
44, Pectis Palmeri S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 24: 58. 1889. 
A diffuse annual; stem 1-2 dm. high, dichotomously branched, glabrous; leaves linear, 
about 4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, glabrous, with 1—2 pairs of basal bristles; glands rather con- 
spicuous, in a single row along each margin; heads solitary in the forks; peduncles 3-8 cm. long; 
