( 237) 
oblong, 5-10 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, remotely ee 
ie Warrowed to a subsessile base, glabrous above, or floccose 
when young, densely fulvous-tomentose beneath; the upper eee 
gradually reduced to 2-3 cm. in length; involucre white-floccose ; 
Cc a 
the bristles slightly ciliate, the outer series 4 mm., the inner 9 mm 
ong. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Bolanos, northern Mexico.” 
Distribution: Jalisco, western Mexico. 
12. STOKESIA L’Herit. Sert. Angl. 16. 1785 
Heads many-flowered, on terminal peduncles; involucre de- 
pressed-hemispheric, its scales imbricated in several series, the outer 
with foliaceous spreading tips, the inner membranous, appressed; 
corolla 5-cleft, the central ones nearly regular, the marginal ones 
much larger and appearing ligulate; achenes 3--4-angled, truncate ; 
Herba 
leafy stem; leaves alternate, the ane ae the upper sessile 
and clasping ; heads large; corollas 
A monotypic genus of the See United States. 
STOKESIA LAEVIS (Hill) Greene, Erythea 1: 3. 1893 
Carthamus laevis Hill, Hort. Kew. 57. pl. 5. 1760. 
Stokesia cyanea L’Herit. Sert. Angl. 17. 1788. 
Type locality: ‘+ Carolina.” 
Distribution: the coastal plain of the southeastern United States, 
from South Carolina to Louisiana. 
13. ORTHOPAPPUS gen. nov. 
ads 4-flowered, aggregated into glomerules Saal pate by 1-2 
bract-like leaves; involucre of eight scales arranged in decussate 
pairs, the two outer pairs much shorter than the inner, and the 
alternate pairs conduplicate; corolla as in Hlephantopus L.; 
achenes 1o-striate; pappus of about 30 uniform bristles, very 
slightly enlarged at the base. Herbaceous; principal leaves basal, 
the cauline sears or bract-like; inflorescence spicate or the lower 
glomerules pedunc 
Type, peer angustifolius Sw 
The generic name refers to the straight uniform bristles of the 
pappus, a feature which distinguishes it from the nearly related 
genera Hlephantopus and Pseudelephantopus. 
