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Franseria recurva sp. no 
Scabrous throughout, wake leaves minutely, the deep-purple 
branches strongly so. Branchlets elongated, stoutish, erect or 
strongly ascending, densely leafy. Tees nearly sessile, strongly 
recurved, 12-25 mm. long , 6-15 mm. broad, triangular-ovate i in 
acemes small, dense, terminating the branchlets. Involucres of 
the staminate heads 4 or § mm. broad, gray-green, about 8-lobed, 
the lobes triangular, acute, narrower than the acute triangular 
ate with strongly incurved aaa tips, vertically flattened and 
concave at the base on the upper surface. 
“Arequipa, 7500 ft. alt., Aug. 8, 1901” (No. 2527). 
Encelia pilocarpa sp. nov. 
Finely gray tomentellate throughout, the stems much-branched, 
the branches spreading, sharply angled, the leaves alternate, the 
basal ones ae seen. Petioles 4-8 mm. long, slender, the blades 
2-4 cm. long, 8-20 mm. wide, ovate, obtuse, entire, 3-nerved, the 
venation oe Peduncles long and slender, the heads 10-14 
pale, about a half longer than the disk-florets, which are 4 or § mm. 
long, the tube haga half as long as the limb, the lobes ovate. 
Aken . long, about half as wide, obovate, densely long- 
pilose, foe emarginate, Nee of set 
“Two feet high. Arequipa, Peru, 7500 - alt., Aug. 8, 1g01”’ 
(No. 2526). 
Bidens longipetiolata sp. nov. 
Leaves grayish-puberulent, more so underneath, otherwise 
glabrous. sae chlets numerous, slender, widely spreading or 
recurved, strongly costate, purplish. Petioles 1-4 cm. long, 
oe ae blades 4-8 cm. lo ate 
cute, the rounded base abruptly and shortly produced into the 
petiole, finely crenate-serrate, the slender secondarie r 
on a side, strongly upcurved, the venation inconspicuous. 
Peduncles solitary in the axils, elongated, very slender, often with 
minutely lacerate or erose. Rays about 15 mm. long, obovate, 
