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ginous hairs; branchlets — by an enlarged terete base ; 
petioles 1—1.5 cm. long, , their bases much dilated, connate; 
blades 7-10 cm. lon pus cm. broad very near the base, 
somewhat inequilateral, ovate with regularly tapering acutish apex, 
sub-cordate base and entire margin, bright green, above glabrous, 
with obscure veins, underneath ferruginous with prominent veins, 
floriferous portion, which is 7-12 cm. long, 5-7 cm. broad, 
pyramidal, moderately dense, lanceolate- bracted ; heads 3-5,8 mm. 
long, sessile and crowded at the ends of slender branchlets slightly 
longer than themselves, Sakti d by broadly ovate serrate 
branchlets about two fifths as long as the involucre; involucre 6 
mm. long, the scales oblong-oblanceolate, the apex rounded and 
ee: finely 5-nerved, with scarious margins, nearly glabrous; 
es black wit ag fine whitish angles, 3.5 mm. long, little 
ele g at the base; pappus 3.5 mm. long, copious, tawny, the 
iius scarcely ec up corolla-tube blackish, 1.25 mm. 
ong, from an abruptly dilated base, very narrow, the limb 2 mm. 
long, broadly campanulate, the lobes 1 mm. long, broadly ovate. 
Between Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.-June, 1892 (1419). The 
same as Jameson's 5095. Very near W. Pohliana, but that has a 
glabrous stem. 
` WILLOUGHBYA LONGIACUMINATA Sp. n 
Branches stoutish, finely many seis and, like the branchlets, 
petioles and veins on lower surface ferruginous- tomentellate ; 
petioles 1-2 cm. long, broadly margined, at the base slightly dilated 
and connate; blades 7-12 cm. long, 2.5—4 cm. broad near the base, 
ovate with rounded base, regularly long-acuminate and very acute 
apex, and entire margin, minutely ferruginous both sides, thickish, 
bearing three pairs of rib-like primaries from the lower fourth, the 
upper primaries mostly obscure, angularly reticulate with the for- 
lower shorter, the upper much longer than their leaves, pyramidal, 
somewhat loose, lanceolate-bracted, the peduncles one-half as long 
as the floriferous portion, the heads at length crowded, Dorene, 
4 mm. long and one-half as broad, subtended by a bract 1 m 
long and broad ; poelan scales obovate, cartilaginous, w hitish 
with green middle portion, finely many-nerved, the terminal por- 
tion thin, fimbrillate, tending to become recurved or spreading, 
the shorter pair about equalling the flowers; akene .5 mm. long, 
more than one-half as broad, very hairy; pappus 2.5 mm. long, 
coarse, tawny, equalling the corolla. 
Mapiri, July-Aug., 1892 (1504). 
