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BARNADESIA VENOSA Sp. n. 
Branches stout, the younger parts puberulent ; leaves 8-16 cm. 
long, 2-4 cm. broad, inequilaterally oblanceolate, tapering into a 
petiole dm mm. long, with acutely pointed apex, entire, finely 
reticulate, above dark-green and glabrous, with the veins obscure, 
‘underneath very pale or slightly yellowish, the veins prominent, 
the midrib and 5-8 pairs of strongly ascending and incurv 
primaries sparingly hairy; branchlets bearing 5-10 loosely 
corymbed heads, on slender peduncles 1-2 cm. long; involucre 
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curved apices, the inner deren! longer (becoming 3 cm. long 
and linear, erect, thick a igid), sericeous, narrowly scarious- 
margined and mi nutely inci “tipped receptacle aon ae 
with a peripheral circle of large fimbriate-margined fov ray 
flowers 8, fertile, the akenes 4 mm. long, densel DASE dorso- 
ventrally 'sigmoid- -curved, with very obliquely truncate base, 5-rib- 
.bed ; the pappus subequal, 1.5 cm. long, I-serialled, purple, white- 
plumose, connate at the white Hass, acute; the corolla bright pur- 
ple, "Rai its tube 2 cm. long, narrowly cylindrical, 5-angled, 
the filiform lip 1.5 cm. long, entire, the other 2.5 cm. long, 5 mm 
broad, oblanceolate, pa the teeth 2 mm. long, ovate, acute; 
the androecium completely tubular, very long-pilose within, equal- 
ling the corolla, the anthers 8 mm. long, narrowly linear, not cau- 
anther-appendages, cylindrical, of uniform thickness or very 
ting thickened upward, glabrous, the branches 1.5 mm. long, 
road, flattened, oval, with rounded apex twice the breadth 
of the sepik ; ‘disk- How er one, neutral, its akene-vestige 2 mm. lon 
and broad, cylindrical, straight with truncate base, densely pilose; 
pappus bristles equal, 1.25 cm. long, 1-serialled, connate at the base, 
which is produced downward into a beautifully crenated border, 
the lower half yellowish white, the upper purple, minutely puberu- 
lent, aristiform, rigid, acute, about 25 in number, becoming re- 
curved, the corolla purple, densely pilose, cylindrical, nearly uni- 
proe 2 cm. long, 3 mm. broad, the lobes 2 mm. long, ovate, acute, 
the base truncate and produced downward into a slight entire 
acute annulus; style a mere vestige. 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (1265). Also collected by Pearce at 
Muña, 7000-8000 ft. 
Plazia daphnoides Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 12. pl. 2. Vic. Cocha- 
bamba, 1891 (1147). 
SERIS (ONOSERIS) SAGITTATUS Sp. n. 
Plant 5-10 dm. high or more, the stem and lower leaf-surfaces 
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