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the veinlets finely and conspicuously reticulate; peduncles stout; 
corymbs 0.6-1.2 dm. broad, open, the branchlets densely flowered, 
bracted with lanceolate or linear bracts; peduncles of the heads 5- 
& sa long, slender; scales of the involucre 8 mm. long, 3 mm. 
broad, oblanceolate, SS faintly striate, the margins scarious; 
akenes 5 mm. long; pappus 7mm. long, copious; corolla stoutly 
infundibular, a little longer than the akene, the lobes short, broadly 
ovate ; anthers exserted 3 mm.; style- -branches 4 mm. long, twisted. 
(No. 2 
a ecees Hieronymi sp. nov. 
Tomentose and slightly ferruginous; stems and branchlets very 
stout, purple; petioles 3-4 cm. long, very stout, the upper half 
broadly winged by the decurrent blade; blades 1 dm. or more long 
and broad, triangular-ovate, cordate, the base decurrent, abruptly 
very short-pointed, membranaceous but thickish, dark-green and 
scabrous above, yellowish-gray-tomentose underneath, 3- -cOs- 
tate, the lateral ribs originating near the base of the midrib, finely 
reticulate; | corym ry irregul ze, dense, very stoutly 
oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, dark purples green; akene 2 mm. 
long; pappus 7 mm. long, copious, coars , dark k-brown; corolla- 
tube 3.5 mm. long, the lobes (greenish) 2. . mm. cieae: ovate, ob- 
tuse; style-branches 1.5 mm 
«s Prostrate in wet, clayey oil, the flowers bluish-green; scarce.” 
Coripata, Yungas, April 28, 1894. (Vo. 2769.) 
Sotmpaco potyciossa DC. Prodr. 5: 332. (Vos. 20¢g9 and 
2980.) ‘+ A few feet high, growing in yellow clay, coca planta- 
tions and other cultivated places, the flowers yellow.” Near 
Coripata, March 15, 1894. 
Diplostephium Mandoni sp. nov. 
Shrubby, the branchlets crowded, stout but weak, oe very 
leafy; leaves sessile by a penawed, petiole-like base, 3-5 cm. long, 
6-12 mm. broad, smaller toward the base and summit of the beanie 
let, lanceolate, obtusish or barely acute, coriaceous, deep-green and 
glabrous above, with the venation deeply impressed, thickly yellow- 
tomentose with the venation concealed ee ee ne ads subsessile 
among the crowded terminal leaves; involucre 1 . long, broadly 
campanulate, many-serialled, the scales eee cree ee very 
thick, strongly recurved, purple, gray-pilose, the inner linear, the 
outer successively shorter, the outermostl anceolate; akenes i ona 
1 mm. long, turbinate-obovoid; pappus similar in both flowers, 5- 
ma. long, flexuous, purple, the outer very short indeed, scarcely 
perceptible ; corolla nearly 1.5 cm. long, 2 mm. broad, the apex 
narrowed abruptly, slightly 3-toothed; exserted portion of style 3 
mm. long, its branches 1.5 mm. long; disk-corollas purple, the 
