29 A. Sodiro. 
73. Diplostephium spinulosum Wedd. Chlor. And. I. p. 200, ex deser. 
Species non satis nota el ex descriptione manca cl. WEDDELLI non 
salis recognoscenda, quare descriptionem hic renovo. 
Fruticulus probabiliter usque ad !/; m altus, ramosus; ramulis juventute 
dense lutescenti-cinereo-tomentosis, tomento deciduo mox glabratis, sulcato- 
striatis, denique ramisque subteretibus vel dissecatione irregulariter suleato- 
striatis, peridermate einereo-fuscescente obtectis, glaberrimis, juventute foliosis, 
denique foliis delapsis nudis ; foliis alternis (internodiis in ramulis vix ultra 2 mm 
longis, in ramis usque ad 5 mm longis), sessilibus, cuneatis, apice obtusiusculis 
vel acutiusculis, mucronatis, integris, 8S—13 mm longis, 2—3 mm infra apicem 
latis, crassiusculis, coriaceis, uninerviis, supra glabris viridibus glanduloso- 
punctulatis (glandulis immersis) et marginem revolutum versus spinuloso- 
tuberculatis, subtus cinereo-tomentosis; capitulis in apice ramulorum termina- — — 
libus, peduneulatis (pedunculis c. 4 cm longis, bracteolatis; bracteolis triangulari- 
elongatis, acutis, spinuloso-mucronatis, scariosis, uninerviis, fuscescentibus, usque 
ad 5 mm longis, ad involucri bracteas transeuntibus, iisque similibus); involucris 
c. 12 mm longis, anguste campanulatis; squamis c. 35—40, 5—6-seriatis, 
scariosis, substramineis, apicem versus interdum purpurascentibus, acutis, 
praesertim interioribus margine longiuscule denticulato-ciliatis; intimis c. 10 mm 
longis, 4 mm latis, exterioribus sensim decrescentibus; receptaculo c. 1!/; mm 
diam.; floribus radii femineis ligulatis c. 20—25; corollis c. 40 mm longis, 
tubulo apicem versus parce glandulis globosis consperso, c. 2 mm longo, 
ligula 4-nervia (nervis parum perspicuis 8 mm longa, 3/, mm lata, apice 
obsolete 2-dentieulata; floribus hermaphroditis disci 46—18 tubulosis; €o- 
rollis c. 6 mm longis, tubulo 2 mm longo, limbo basi puberulo 4 mm longo, 
laciniis !/, mm longis erectis apice papilloso-mucronatis dorso glandulis 
globosis paucis obsitis inclusis; antheris breviter caudatis; achaeniis valde 
immaturis c. 2 mm longis, villosis; pappi setis in floribus radii c. 20—30, 
c. 5—6 mm longis, additis paucis brevibus; in floribus disci e. 25 infra 
medium flexuosis, e. 7—8 mm longis, additis c. 45 brevibus vix 4 mm 
longis; selis omnibus carneo-albidis. 
Crescit in collibus aridis prope Riobamba, mense | Septembri florens 
(S. n. 64/3, Sept. 1893). 
74. D. lavandulifolium Kunth in Humb. Bonpl. Nov. gen. et spec. 
amer, IV. p. 76 (97), t 
Crescit in ostia Imbabura, Cayambe etc., alt. s. m. supra 4000 m 
(S. n. 43/2). 
75. D. rupestre (Kunth; Wedd. Chl. and. I. p. 206. 
Crescit in rupibus supremis Andium (S. n. 13/1). 
76. Conyza chilensis Spreng. Nov. Prov. 4848 p. 14; syn. Conyza — 
myosotifolia Kunth in Humb. Bonpl. Nov. gen. et spec. amer. IV. (! 820) 
p. 54 (69). 
Crescit in pascuis aridis areillosis prope Quito (S. n. 15/4). 
