(135) 
above, tomentose beneath. Inflorescence ample, usually dense, 
subulate-bracted, the peduncles slender, short or elongated, 
strongly striate. Heads 12-14 mm. long and nearly as broad, as 
pressed, the involucre broadly turbinate, two-thirds or three- 
f : 
mm. long, a little shorter than the pale-brown pappus, aun 
somewhat narrowed at the base and summit and terminating in 
nearly flat disk, obscurely costate, sparsely papillose. 
“Apolo, 4800 ft. alt., March 12, 1902 (No. 75) and Apr. 5, 1902 
(No. 139). These two are identical. Bang’s No. 1493 from 
Mapiri, published as T. divaricata Spr., has more numerous and 
slightly smaller heads, but is of the same species. 
Hieracium apoloensis sp. nov. 
Inflorescence and upper portions minutely short-pilose, the hairs 
divaricate, those of the involucre black. Stems erect, very 
slender, simple or nearly so, 20-50 cm. high, ribbed. Radical 
leaves ‘mostly erect, 4-15 cm. long, including the very slender 
petioles, which are longer t than the blades and pass imperceptibly 
into them, the blades linear-oblanceolate, acutish, entire, attenuate 
at the base, the very slender, crooked secondaries erect, the 
nearly so, aha corymbose or reduced to few or a vee head, 
the pe eduncles very slender. Involucre 6 or 7 mm. long, and 
about equalling the pappus, campanulate, the fone oe 
lanceolate, acuminate, the outer successively short a 
half or more longer than the pappus, which is fragile pe trek 
Akenes small, immature in the specimen described. 
“Hills near Apolo, 6000 ft. alt., Feb. 20, 1902” (Wo. 130). 
No. 1466, from the same place, Aug. 31, 1902, is a smaller form of 
the same. 
