( 388 ) 
Achyrocline polycephala sp. nov. 
feotems weak, much elongated, has branched, densely and 
rather lon ell wish-t ; lea -9 cm. ong I-3 cm. 
broad, oblong, sessile by a narrow ia acute, above deep-green, 
papillose, pubescent when young, underneath densely yellow-to- 
mentose, the venation inconspicuous; flowers densely panicled in 
rather large glomerules; heads 3 mm. long, the pane oval, obtuse, 
hyaline, green at the base; scales less than o. . long, oval; 
corolla 3.5 mm. long, narrowly Aether ne the lobes 
brown, spreading, about as long as the a 
‘“‘In dry gravelly soil, climbing 5 or He the flowers white.” 
Coroico, July 11, 1894. (Wo. 2236 
Species very near A. deflexa. Superficially much like the last, 
but the corollas quite distinct. 
Achyrociine tomentosa sp. nov. 
Stems rather stout, woody at the see terete, striate, softly and 
closely gray-tomentose, much branche ae branches mostly iota 
or strongly ascending, aa ous, 2-3 cm. ong; leaves 3-6 cm. long, 
0.6-1.5 cm. broad, the floral smaller, blade proper regularly 
and rather angularly lanceolate, tapering into a petiole-like base 
which is not, or little, dilated at the insertion, acute at the apex, 
bright-green but grayish-tomentose above, densely yellow-tomen- 
tose underneath, the midrib inclined to a purple color, rather prom- 
inent both sides, specially oe the venation obscure ; panicles 
leafy, broad and open, mostly 6-8 cm. long and rather broader, the 
heads densely clustered at the ends of the branches, the ultimate 
clusters 4-5 mm. broad, yellow-tomentose at the base; head 3 mm. 
long, the scales broadly ovate, acute, hyaline; akene and corolla 
together less than 2 mm. long, the akene short, broad, dark-purple 
or blackish, one-half as ‘long as the broadly cylindraceous corolla. 
‘© A small plant, a few feet high, with white flowers; rather 
scarce in very dry soil on rocks.” Coripata, April 10, 1894. 
(Vo. 2124.) 
? GNAPHALIUM CHEIRANTHIFOLIUM Lam. Encyc. 2: 752. (Jos. 
2011, 2041 p.p. and 2633.) 
GNAPHALIUM CYMATOIDES Kunze; DC. Prodr. 6: 225. (Wo. 
2040. 
GNAPHALIUM sPpicatum Lam. Encyc. 2: 757. (Vo. 2896.) 
Luciria AFFinis Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 230. (Specimen without 
number.) The same as Mandon 168. 
? Lucitia squarrosa Baker, in Mart. FI. Bras. 6: 114. (Spec- 
imen without number.) Apparently the same as Glaziou 8129 
and 17046.) 
