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ACHYROCLINE RAMOSSISSIMA (Sch. Bip.) Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Club, xix. 148. Name only. Stems more or less procum- 
bent at the base, the leafy branches erect, slender, flexuous, 
15-30 cm. long, branching, luteo-lanate; leaves narrowly lin- 
ear to linear-lanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, closely sessile, above 
bright yellowish-green and pilose, underneath densely luteo- 
lanate; panicle broad and lax, the heads crowded at the ends 
of the branchlets into compound glomerules which are about 
I cm. in breadth; heads about 4 mm. long, lanceolate in the 
bud, narrowly campanulate when expanded; scales ovate, 
ers 
about 5, the pappus and corolla about equalling the involucre; 
akenes 0.6 mm. long, oblong with sharply contracted apex, 
light brown, glabrous. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (99). 
ACHYROCLINE VENOSA, sp. n. Suffruticose, sparingly branched 
from near the base, the branches erect, strict, simple, 3-5 dm. 
dle, the secondary veins prominent; infloresence loosely pan- 
iculate, the branches from the upper axils, the heads closely 
glomerate at the ends of the branchlets, the ultimate glomer- 
ules about 7 mm. broad, yellowish-white, floccose at the base 
and am ong the heads, which are 4-5 mm. long, at first lanceo- 
late and acutish, at length cylindrical or even slightly cam- 
panulate; scales 9, ovate, acute, strongly concave, very thin 
and transparent, 3 mm. long by a little more than 1 mm. 
broad; flowers 5, equalling or very nearly equalling the scales; 
akenes (not mature) very small, elliptical-obovoid; corolla nar- 
rowly funnel-form, yellowish; style-branches stout, about one- 
fourth the length of the corolla. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891. Specimen unique, sent as part of 
99. Мау be called ода. At first regarded as Gnaphalium. 
Gnaphalium spicatum, Lam. Encycl. ii. 757. Vic. La Paz, 10,000 
ft., 1889 (42). — Rusby 1594 and 1595. 
Gnaphalium cheiranthifolium, Lam. Encyc. ii. 752. Vic. La Paz, 
10,000 ft., 1890 (192). — Rusby 1593 and 1597. 
GNAPHALIUM WEDDELLIANUM, Rusby (G. capitatum (Wedd.) Griseb. 
