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GALIUM COCHABAMBENSE Sp. n. 
Stems very slender, whitish, stove quadrangular, sulcate, 
retrorsely hispid; leaves sessile, 1.25-2.25 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 
mm. broad, linear- eng acute, Suo I-nerved, retrosely hispid 
on the margin and less so on the midrib; peduncles terminal, 
Pr 2, 430f 3 See, the pedicels divaricate, stoutish, 3-5 
m. long; "ober 1.5 mm. long, the lobes broad, ovate, rounded ; 
fruit not se 
Vic. Se 1891 (1145). 
VALERIANEAE. 
Valeriana andina Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 17: 264. Near 
snow-line, Mt. Tunari, 1891 (1030) — Rusby's 878. 
Valeriana Boliviana Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 17: 263. Vic. 
Sorata, May, 1892 (1300) — Rusby's 871, 875, 1237, etc. 
Valeriana, apparently an undescribed species near V. scandens, but 
plant too young. Vic. Sorata, May, 1892 (1319). 
COMPOSITAE. 
Vernonia laurifolia DC. Prod. 5: 30, fide Dr. L. Radlkofer. Mapiri, 
July-Aug., 1892 (1534) — 617 and (?) Rusby's 1617. 
Vernonia arborescens Swz. Fl. Ind. Occ. 2: 1320. Espirito Santo, 
1891 (1207). 
Vernonia, apparently V. missionis Gardn. Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot, 
6: 422, in a young state. Between Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.— 
June, 1892 (1420) = Traill’s 453 from upper Brazil. 
VERNONIA BANGII sp. n. 
Lepidoploa scorpioideae verae.) Summit of stem only seen, 
Robust, apparently erect, simple, corymbosely branched above, 
the inflorescence in my specimen nearly 3 dm. high and broad : 
puberulent throughout, except the upper leaf-surface, which 
is scabrate; stem finely angled; upper leaves on stoutish 
petioles 2-3 cm. long, the blades 1.5-2 dm. long, by 5-7 
cm. broad, narrowly and regularly ovate, with rounded or ob- 
scurely produced base, regularly tapering to the acute apex 
and with the lightly revolute margin distantly | serrate, the 
heads closely sessile, rather loosely arranged along the eade: 
ener angled ultimate branchlets, dull grayish yellow, about 7 
high and broad; involucre hemispherical, 4 mm. high and a 
