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6-9 ¢ 2-3 cm. broad, oblong, entire, acute at the base, 
shoals, Sorceely pointed and obtusish at the apex, thin, dark-green 
abo : 
inconspicuous both sides; peduncles of the small panicles much 
elongated, angled, the branches bracted, the bracts 2-5 mm. long, 
lance-ovate, acuminate, thin; peduncles of the heads 3-5 mm. 
long; involucres campanulate, 47mm. long, the a in one series, 
linear-oblong, acuminate, thin, dark- -green ; pe 1.5-2 mm. 
long; pappus 5 mm. long, white, fine, copious erolle 7mm. long, 
the tube slender, the limb broadly es re ae lobed. 
“‘Climbing 10 to 15 feet upon trees, in forest-mould and clay, 
the flowers of a dirty yellow, Coroico, ie — (No. 2437.) 
Species near S. yungasensis and S. floce 
Senecio baccharidiflorus sp. nov. 
Younger portions, inflorescence and lower leaf surfaces closely 
and densely tomentose; stems slender, apparently climbing, terete, 
striate; petioles 1 cm. long; blades 4-8 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, 
oblong or oblanceolate, the lower obtuse or rounded at the base, 
the upper acute, abruptly short-pointed and acute at the apex, ser- 
rulate, the teeth acute, and divergent; thick and coriaceous, glabrous 
above with the midrib and 12-15 pairs of Slender, crooke d se cond- 
densely floccos pressed sc 
I- erailed: broadly ovate, the apex rounded or with a short obtus on 
purple tip, thick, with scarious margins; rays wanting; mature 
akene scarcely 1 mm. long, obovoid, lightly compressed, 4-angled; 
pappus 3 mm. long, fine, white, copious, short-barbellate; corolla 
3 mm. long, stout, broadly infundibular, lobed more than one-third 
of the way, the lobes ovate, obtusish, tuberculate-thickened on the 
face at the apex; anthers long and narrowly caudate at the base, 
the appendages oblong, obtuse ; style thick, the branches 1.5 mm 
long, flattened, papillose, the appendages acuminate and penicillate. 
*¢ A climber with white flowers, growing in rich forest-mould.” 
Unduavi, September, 1894. (Vo. 2494.) 
SENEcIO sp. near S. pruntfolius, the inflorescence too immature 
to admit of a diagnosis. Mr. Bang says: ‘* Grows in rich forest- 
mould, climbs to a height of about 8 feet and has green flowers.” 
Coroico, September, 1894. (Vo. 2459.) 
SENECIO, species probably undescribed, but I have too little material. 
0. 2023.) 
SENEcIO, may possibly be S. rkzzomatus Rusby. (No. 1890.) 
? GYNOXIS BACCHAROIDES Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. 48: 455. (Speci- 
men without number.) Apparently the same as Mandon 8&4. 
