66 A. Sodiro. 
culis dense hirto-tomentosis, 2-——5 (7) mm longis); involucris cylindraceo- 
campanulatis, calyculatis (calyeuli squamulis vel bracteolis c. 8 lineari-ob- 
longis, obtusis, usque ad 4 mm longis, vix ultra 4 mm latis, fuscescentibus, 
apicem versus magis obscuris, dorso plus minusve hirto-tomentosis); invo- 
lucri squamis subaequilongis, oblongis, obtusiusculis vel acutiusculis, c. 7. mm 
longis, usque ad 2?/, mm latis, dorso fuscescentibus parce puberulis vel 
subglabratis, plus minusve scarioso-stramineo-marginalis; floribus 10—13; 
radii femineis ligulatis 4—3; corollis 13 mm longis, tubulo 5!/ mm longo, 
ligula 7!/ mm longa, usque ad 3!/, mm lata, 4-nervia, apice breviter 
3-dentata; floribus disci hermaphroditis c. 40, corollis 40 mm longis, tu- 
bulo 4 mm longo, limbo 6 mm longo, laciniis 2 mm longis inclusis; achae- 
niis immaturis c. 3 mm longis, glabris; pappi setis c. 80, lutescenti-albidis, 
c. 8 mm longis. 
Species G. laurifoliae (Kunth) Cass. affinis, differt foliis BEN, laminis basi 
rotundatis, vel subcordatis apice obtusis nervis laterélibu s pluribus ornatis et inter ner- 
vos laterales ae reticulato-venosis venulosisque, sanat squamis parce pube- 
rulis vel subglabratis ete 
Crescit in regione arborea superiore montis Corazón (S. n. 60/8). 
216. 6. ehimborazensis Hieron. n. sp. 
Arbor 4—6 m alta; ramis divaricatis; ramulis quadrangulis, dense 
ferrugineo-velutino-tomentosis; foliis oppositis (internodiis in specimine us- 
que ad 6 em longis), petiolatis (petiolis crassis, supra canaliculatis, subtus 
bisuleatis, carinatis, c. 2—2!/ cm longis); laminis oblongis, basi rotundatis, 
apice breviter acuminatis, integerrimis, chartaceis, pinninerviis (nervis late- 
ralibus crassioribus utrinque c. 40—15, subtus et supra prominentibus), 
inter nervos laterales reticulato-venosis venulosisque (venis venulisque utrin- 
que prominulis, sed subtus tomento indutis parum conspicuis) supra nervo 
mediano tomentoso excepto glabris, opacis (glauco-viridibus?), subtus dense 
lanato-tomentosis; laminis maximis in specimine 15 cm longis, 6 cm latis; 
inflorescentiis in apice ramorum corymboso-paniculatis, ramosis; partialibus 
lateralibus ex axillis foliorum supremorum nascentibus, longe pedunculatis 
(pedunculis sulcato-sexangulatis, dense velutino-tomentosis); capitulis in 
ramulis ultimis inflorescentiae saepe ternis, pedunculatis (pedunculis viX 
ultra 5 mm longis, bracteolatis, bracteolis lineari-oblongis, acutis, dorso 
plus minusve pubescentibus, 2—3 mm longis, !/,—9?/, mm latis); capitulis 
bracteolis pedunculi quasi calyculatis; involucri  cylindraceo - - campanulati 
squamis 7—8, subaequilongis, c. 8 mm longis, 2—3 mm latis, apicem 
versus ciliatis et ipso apice obtuso penicillatis, ceterum fere glabris, me- 
na herbaceis, plus minusve subhyalino-scarioso-marginatis ; floribus femi- 
neis radii 3—5; corollis c. 46 mm longis glabris, tubulo c. 5 mm longo 
ligula 41 mm longa, 3 mm lata, 4-nervia, apice 3-dentieulata; floribus her- 
maphroditis disci 141—412, corollis c. 10 mm longis, glabris, tubulo € 
3 mm longo, parum in limbum 7 mm longum (laciniis lanceolatis c. 2 mm 
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