( 313) 
rowed leaf- = broadly dilated at the insertion; blades 1-1. 
-9 road, somewhat angularly ovate, the subtruncate 
base abruptly eid ine the widely margined petiole, acuminate 
and acute at the apex, coarsely serrate, membranaceous, dark-green 
above, pale underneath, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves originating a 
short distance above the base, the remaining secondaries about 10 
pairs, slender; heads several at the summit, the slender, strongly 
scabrous peduncles about 2 cm. long; outer subfoliaceous bracts of 
the involucre varying from 1.25-2.5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. broad, 
apex, eas nerved; scales of the disk 1.25 cm. longs closely folded, 
keeled, the acuminate apex lightly recurved; akene 4 mm. long, 
oblanceolate, strongly flattened and narrowly winged; pappus 
cupulate, triangularly toothed, the lateral tooth bearing a seta 
mm. long; corolla 1 cm. long, the lower, narrow-cylindrical por- 
mm 
the base sagittate; style-branches slightly flattened, 2 mm. long, 
tipped with linear appendages nearly 1 mm. long. 
500, ‘** CENTROPOGON SURINAMENSIS,” is described as a new spe- 
cies, C. Bancu, by A. Zahlbruckner, in Bull. Torrey Club 24: 
372. 1897. 
738, ‘* CENTROPOGON sp.,” and 738a, ‘* C. SURINAMENSIS,” are C. 
Manponis A. Zahlb. 
707, ‘* GAULTHERIA CONFERTA,” is 
Gaultheria barosmoides sp. 
Stems creeping, stout, the i ae ascending, 15-2 
pages ferruginous, at length deciduous hairs; petioles 1-2 
. long and almost as broad; blades 6-12 mm. long, 4- 
mm. broad, oval or slightly ovate, the base rounded, the summit 
brown; pedicels extremely short, stout; flowers "about . lon 
calyx three-fourths the length of the corolla, divided eee to ihe 
base, the lobes broadly ovate, acuminate, coriaceous; corolla ovoid- 
conical, the teeth very small, oval, obtuse; stamens 3 mm. lon 
the filament broad, dilated at the base, the anther = bearing at 
the summit 4 hair- like awns about half its own leng th; ovary 2 
mm. broad, deeply 5-lobed, the stout style nearly ni its length ; 
fruit 9g mm. long, subglobose, drying black. The same as xo. rgo5. 
