68 
Vic. Mapiri, 8000 ft. Sept., 1892 (1574). Same as Mandon's 
I3I. 
GYNOXIS GLABRIUSCULA Sp. n. 
Branches blackish or dark brown, at first white-tomentose, but 
early glabrate, dilated at the nodes; petioles 1.5-3 cm. long, 
stoutish; blades 4-8 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, ovate, the base 
mostly rounded, tapering regularly to an obtusish or acute point, 
the margin distantly and minutely toothed ; thickish, glabrous both 
sides, reticulate with inconspicuous veins; inflorescence open, 
corymbose, AFA tamegtone sparingly leafy-bracted ; heads short- 
peduncled, 1.5 cm. long and broad, campanulate; scales 8 mm 
long, broadly hh blunt, purple upward, thick, appressed ; recep- 
slightly exceeding the pappus, “which is in one circle, scabrous, 
acute; akene 2 mm. long, obovoid, SIT: angled (mature 
ones not in essential organs not m 
Near snow-line, Mt. Tunari, 1891 RR The same as a 
specimen collected in Bolivia by Bridges. 
Werneria villosa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Ac. 5: (1861) 139. Espirito 
Santo, 1891 (1220). Same collected in Peru by the Wilkes 
Expl. Exp., but Mandon's 86 and 87 and Lechler's 2111 are 
apparently distinct. 
MurisiA Birontina Mandon, Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 12: 79. Name 
only. 
A cirrhiferous climber ; branches stoutish, coarsely Spent: nar- 
rowly and thinly winged by the decurrent lea aves, yellow 
tose; leaves sessile, decurrent, terminating in a branched a 
regia 4-7 pairs, ngon opposite, pre internodes 1.5— 
. long; sessile, 4—7 long, 1-3 cm. broad, inequila- 
aie ovate, the base Ri et rounded or dh -cordate, the apex 
mucronate, entire, flaccid, above very dark and. minutely tomen- 
ng 
linear, tapering regularly from the base to the acute apex; rays 
deep crimson, glabrous, about 7 or 8 cm. long; disk-corollas 4 
cm. long, exceeding the coarse straw-colored pappus about 5 mm.; 
style-branches long-exserted, slender, slightly. clavate. 
Espirito Santo, 1891. (1253) — Mandon's no. 6 and. Rusby's 
1549. 
