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lesser ones, slender, strongly ascending, connecting near the mar- 
gin; panicle sessile, 5-7 cm. long, 7-9 cm. broad very dense; 
heads subs essile; involu ucres 5 mm. long and ae ae the 
3 mm. long; corollas 3-4 mm. long, the lobes 1 mm. long, strongly 
recurved; anthers 1 mm. long, exserted, the thickish style-branches 
projecting nearly i mm. (Jo, 2267. 
Baccharis saliens sp. nov. 
Coarsely ferruginous-tomentose, except the upper leaf-surfaces; 
branches very stout, erect or strongly ascending, striate; petioles 
0.5-1 long, stout, narrowly channeled above; blades 3.5-5 
ng, I.5-2.5 cm. broad, ovate, rounded at the base, abruptly 
short-pointed and acutish or obtusish at the apex, finely and very 
sharply and slenderly dentate, the teeth at length divergent; thick 
and rigid, deep-green, 3-nerve by the lowest pair of secondaries, 
which connect with the second pair a little above the middle of the 
leaf and about one-third of the way from the margin to the midrib, 
finely and strongly reticulate, glabrous above with the principal 
veins plane or lightly impressed, ferruginous underneath upon the 
7¢ g, 4-6 cm. broad, pyramidal, dense, the heads sessile; 
involucre 6 mm. long, broadly campanulate, the scales in about 
ne ovate or lanceolate, acuminate or penne the 
lobes very short; pistil — nearly 2 mm., the lobes of the 
style dark, 0.5 mm. long, e 
‘‘ Scarce in wet forest- ae climbing; flowers white.” Un- 
duavi, September, 1894. (JVo. 2493.) 
? ACHYROCLINE ALATA DC, Prodr. 6: 221. (Specimen without 
number.) Apparently the same as AZandon 158, but the heads 
much smaller than in Brzdges’ specimen from Bolivia. 
? ACHYROCLINE CELosIoIDES (H.B.K.) DC. Prodr. 6: 221. 
(Gnaphalium celosiotdes, U.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 78. pl. 729.) 
(Specimen without number.) ‘+ Growing a few feet high, in 
very dry rock, the flowers white; scarce.” Coripata, April 10, 
1894. (Vo. 2022.) 
ACHYROCLINE RUFESCENS DC. Prodr. 6: 220. (Specimen with- 
out number.) The same collected by Pearce in the Andes of 
Ecuador, 12,000~13,000 ft. 
ACHYROCLINE VAUTHERIANA DC. Prodr. 6: 220. (Wo. 2278.) 
(The same as Gardner 4261?) 
