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Stem subterete, 2 mm. thick, really leafy from the bottom, 

 but a few of the lowest leaves have been shed. Leaves up to 3x1 cm., 

 but usually somewhat smaller, drying greyish, the veining prominent 

 on their underside. Inflorescences 2-2.5 x 2.5-3 cm., the heads in the 

 axils of leaves reduced to about 1 cm. more or less in length. 

 Peduncles 3-6 mm. long, tomeiitose. Involucre 12 x 12 mm.; outer- 

 most leaves about 2-3 mm. long, intermediate 4-9 mm., innermost 

 10 mm. long. Corollas sparsely papillose with a narrowly infundibular 

 tube 6.5 mm. long, double the length of the linear lobes. Style-arms 

 2.5 mm. long. Achenes 2.5 mm., pappus 6 mm. long. 



Affinity with V. bracteata Wall. ; differing chiefly in the lowly 

 habit, smaller heads with fewer florets, narrower achenes and shorter 

 pappus. 



142. Verxoxia (§ Xipholepis) dranexsis S. Moore, sp. nov. 



Ramuli elongati sat tenues subdistanter foliosi eximie longi- 

 trorsum striati scabridi. Folia subsessilia oblongo-lanceolata acuta vel 

 obtusiuscula basi obtusa margine integra vel distanter denticulata 

 papyracea utrinque scabriuscula. Capihda circa 23-flosculosa in 

 paniculas axillares vel pseudoterm males quam folia breviores longior 

 -esve ordinata. Pedunculi proprii involucro saepe circiter ajquilongi 

 uti pedunculus pubescentes. Involuerum campanulatum 6-seriale 

 phyllis exterioribus parvulis subulatis patentibus recurvisve ceteris 

 anguste oblongo-lanceolatis omnibus pungenti-acutis pubescentibus. 

 Flosculi breviter exserti punicei. Achenia oblongo-turbinata callo 

 basali prominente pra3dita 10-costata pubescentia. Pappi setae 1-2- 

 seriatre (paucis exterioribus abbreviatis) breviter barbellataj albae. 



Dran, 3,000-4,000 ft, 



Probably a tall shrub, the specimens about two spans in 

 height. Leaves 9-13 x 1.5-2.3 cm., grey when dry; midrib prominent 

 on the lower side but thin ; reticulation well seen on both faces ; 

 petioles 2 mm. long, broad, excavated on the upper side. Panicles 

 10-20 x 4-5 cm., their linear or subulate bracts 5 mm. more or less 

 in length, at most 1 cm. Involucres 8x7 mm. ; leaves of the outer 

 two rows 2-3 mm. long, of the middle rows 4-6 mm., of the inmost 

 row 7 mm., all pale straw with a green tip. Corollas infundibular 



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