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broad, ovate, mostly inaequilateral, aa oreaes and obtuse, 
m. 
divided ae middle into a a slender, strongly nerved portion, 
and an upper campanulate portion which is lobed more than half 
way; anthers about half as long as the campanulate portion of the 
corolla; style-branches very long, terete, grayish-puberulent. 
“Climbing over bushes; Cargadira, 8000 ft., July 30, 1902” 
(No. 1604). 
Grindelia obovata sp. nov. 
Glabrous except for a very minute puberulence on the young 
stems and upper surfaces of the young leaves. Branches rather 
mm. broad, and two-thirds as oe oo squarrose, the scales 
acuminate and acute, many of them purplish. Rays about 15-20 
broadly ovate, obtuse. Pappus entire, coarse, the longest nearly 
equalling the disk-flowers. Akenes not seen. (Dissection mate- 
rial scanty.) 
“ Arequipa, Peru, 7500 ft. alt., Aug. 8, rg01”’ (No. 2535). 
Diplostephium foliosum sp. nov. 
Yellow-tomentose, except the upper leaf-surfaces. Stems simple 
or nearly so, erect, 2-5 dm. high, stoutish, densely leafy. Leaves 
2 
the venation obscure eads several at the 
sub-sessile corymb, stoutly p led, the linear bracts of the 
peduncle appe Bo a er involucral scales; mm. long, 
turbinate or panulate involucre nearly equalling the 
pappus. Scales of re ee lanceolate, acuminate, obtusish, 
