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Specimens of this species have not been examined, but the scanty 
description corresponds so regs with the generic characters of 
Eremosts that it is included h 
Type locality: Depart. ae aes alt. gigt ft. 
9. OLIGANTHES Cass. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1817: 10. 1817; 
8: 58. 
ae H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 44. 1818. 
1-8-flowered, aggregated in dense corymbiform panicles 
are twisted towards the apex. Shrubs or small trees, with usually 
broad eal leaves and dense panicles resembling those of 
Etrem 
Type, ‘0. triflora Cass. 
A genus of tropical America, containing several species which 
vary greatly in the structure of the pappus and which were formerly 
included in five different genera. As limited by Bentham and 
Hooker the genus is too close to Prptocoma. 
Heads 1-flowered. 1. O. discolor. 
Heads 8-flowered. 2. O. oxylepis. 
1. OLIGANTHES DIscoLor (H.B.K.) Sch.-Bip. Linnaea 20: 
502. 1847 
Dialesta discolor H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 45. 1818. 
Stem closely cinereous ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, to cm. long, 5 
cm. wide, acuminate, entire, narrowed at the base, rugose and gla- 
brate above, tomentulose beneath, especially on the veins, and with 
umerous short hairs; heads 1-flowered, densely aggregated on 
outer obtus ae ovate, the inner oblong, acute; achenes glabrous, 1.5 
mm. long; outer pappus of about 5 short ovate fimbrillate scales, 
the inner of flat twisted scales 2.5 mm. long. 
Type locality: ‘* in calidis prope Honda Novo-Granatensium.” 
Distribution: Costa Rica, Pittzer 4970, south to Colombia. 
2. OLIGANTHES OXYLEPIS Benth.; Benth. & Hook. Gen. Pl. 2: 
233. 1873 
Heads 8-flowered; leaves dentate. No specimens seen. 
Type locality: Yucatan. 
