( 384) 
lower cylindraceous portion nearly 2 mm. long, the upper broadly 
infundibular portion 3 mm. long, the lobes 1 mm. long and broad, 
ovate-obtuse; style-branches 1.5 mm. long; anthers nearly 2 mm 
long. (Vo. 2895.) 
The same as Mandon 279. 
Diplostephium liabioides sp. nov. 
Closely short ferruginous-tomentose, the upper leaf-surfaces be- 
coming glabrous; branches stoutish but weak, erect or ascending, 
purple, terete, densely leafy; leaves sessile by a narrowed, petiole- 
like base, 3-6 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. broad, oblong, obtusish, but 
minutely apiculate, sharply and rather coarsely and distantly ser- 
rate, thick, bright-green above, with the midrib impressed, deep- 
the heads short and stout; involucre eg ee 
about 9 mm. long, the outer scales successively shorter, the two 
outermost series abruptly shorter, broader, ovate, green, the others 
pappus of the ray-flowers 6 mm. long, of the disk-flowers 4-5 mm. 
long, purple, coarse, short-barbellate; rays white, the limb about 1 
cm. long, lines able decolate: emarginate ; ; i aad recurved; 
short-lanceolate ,flattened, obtuse, hirtellate toward the summit; 
gral corollas purple, 5 mm. long, broadly eunaibela the lobes 
mm. long, ovate; anthers nearly 3 mm. long, the appendages 
ahert, obtusish; style-branches 2 mm. long, flattened, acutish, the 
upper half long-pilose. 
“A low shrub with blue flowers, in forest-mould.” Unduavi, 
September, 1894. (Vo. 2496.) 
Diplostephium atropurpureum sp. nov. 
Shrubby; branchlets, lower leaf-surfaces, etc., densely and 
closely yellow-tomentose, the lower leaf-surfaces sparingly and the 
involucre more abundantly gray-scurfy also; branchlets leafy, 
angled; leaves 2.5-6 cm. long, 0.5~1 cm. broad, lance-oblong, 
tapering into a petiole-like base, obtuse, appearing acute by the 
revolute margins, entire, very thick, glabrous and finely wrinkled 
in drying above, with the midrib and primaries sharply ‘impressed, 
the midrib very stout and prominent underneath, with the vena- 
tion obscure; inflorescence terminal, loosely ee ae peduncles 
of the heads 1-2 cm. long, very stout, terete, with one to several 
small leafy bracts; involucre campanulate, squarrose, the obtuse 
scales thick and coriaceous, deep-purple, 1-nerved, the outermost 
short-ovate, the inner successively longer, the innermost 1 cm. 
or more long, linear; receptacle convex, foveolate, chaffy in the 
center, the scales narrow and fimbrillate; akenes uniform, 1.5 
mm. long, 1 mm. broad, obovoid, hispid, slightly compressed, ob 
