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«¢ A slender shrub, ro to 12 ft. high, with white flowers; scarce 
in gravel and mould near the river.” Coroico, August 14, 1894. 
(Wo. 23780.) 
peinanbie latipaniculatum sp. nov. 
Younger portions of stem, peduncles and midribs puberulent; 
ence: cae very ite haat leaves 2 dm. or more 
long, 6-5 cm. the bases long-acuminate and petiole-like, 
sub-confluent, pee Boimiate: pees coarsely and sharply serrate, 
thin, deep-green, somewhat scurfy both sides; peduncles of the 
lower axillary corymbs 1.5 dm. long, the corymbs rather lax, 1 
broad; peduncles of the heads 0.5-1 cm. long, purplish, thickened 
alf br 
lanceolate, acute, purplish; corolla 4 mm. long, narrowly infun- 
dibular, purple; pappus equaling the corolla, white, fine, copious ; 
akene oblanceolate, slender, nearly 2 mm. long, black, smooth, 
sharply angle 
‘© A slender ee 6 to 10 feet high, with rose-colored flowers, 
in rich shaded mould.” Sacramento, Yungas, August 20, 1894. 
(Vo. 2386.) Species near ZL. canthinum. 
Bupa cones sp. nov. 
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ems weak, much-branched, the branches 
widely aa or  droopi ng, apparently reclining, striate; petioles 
1.5-4 cm aes slender and weak, little dilated at the base; blades 
3-7 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. broad, ovate, mostly aaa rounded 
or ae at the base, obtuse or acutish at the apex, coarsely 
serrate with short blunt teeth, deep-green a grayish-green 
underneath, thin, trinerved, the venation coarse, reticulate, rather 
prominent underneath; heads few, very loosely corymbed, on 
green, strongly 3-nerved, acute; corolla nearly 4 mm. long, nar- 
rowly infundibular, the margin much broader than the tube; style- 
branches exserted 2-3 mm.; pappus white, fine, copious, nearly 
equaling the corolla; akene m. long, tapering from the summit 
to an acute base, black, glabrous, strongly and sharply angled. 
‘A few feet high, the flowers light red; scarce, in dry gravelly 
soil.” Coripata, Yungas, March 25, 1894. (Vo. 2774.) 
Eupatorium gynoxioides sp. nov. 
Very finely and closely puberulent; stems stout, purplish, the 
upper internodes about 3 cm. long; upper leaves only seen, their 
petioles 3 cm. oe purple, stout, narrowly margined and keeled; 
blades 1-1.5 dm. long, 4-6 cm. broad, ovate, abruptly acute at the 
base, shortly and cae acuminate at the apex, obsoletely and very 
