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Thyrsanthema nutans (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Plant. 369. (Chap- 
talia nutans, Hemsley). Yungas, 1890 (237). 
Proustia pungens, Poepp. in Less. Syn. 110. Talca Chugiaguilla, 
April, 1890. Distributed as 797. 
Perezia multiflora (Н. & B.) Less, Linnea, 1830, 1$. Vie. La 
Paz., 10,000 ft., 1890 (736). Also from Vic Cochabamba, 1891, 
without number (7 36a). 
Perezia caerulescens, Wedd. Chlor. And. i. 39. Songo, Nov. 1890 
(915). = Mandon 20. 
ing, 10-15 cm. long, including the petiole, scarcely 1 cm. broad, 
sides glabrous; stems several, slender, scapose, monocephalous, 
1-5 dm. long, many-bracted, the bracts 5-10 mm. long, subu- 
late with clasping base, acuminate, spinulose-dentate; involucre 
campanulate, about 15 mm. high, 10 mm. broad, pappus one- 
fourth longer than the involucre, the scales lanceolate, acuminate 
and cuspidate, rigid, appressed, the outer successively shorter, 
the middle portion bright green, the broad margins white, 
scarious, the outer denticulate; receptacle slightly convex, 
foveolate; rays about 15, blue or bluish, oblong, the apex con- 
tracted, tridentate; disk-corollas 12 mm. long, shorter than 
the tawny pappus; appendages of the anther black, 2 mm. 
long, oblong obovoid, papillose. 
Capi, March, 1890, and Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (777). = Man- 
don 24, fide Britton. Very distinct from P. pungens (Н & В.) 
Less., for which Mandon’s specimens were distributed. 
Jungia floribunda, Less. Linnza, 1830, 38. Yungas, 1890 (673). 
= Rusby 1708. 
HIERACIUM BANGII, sp. п. Roots fibrous, densely fasciculate, the 
stem erect, stout, 1 meter or more high, hollow, angled, below 
densely hirsute with retrorse hairs, above more sparingly hir- 
sute, the hairs born on a spiculiform base ; leaves 7-15 cm. long, 
3-6 cm. broad, obovate or spatulate, the apex rounded but 
slightly mucronate, the base strongly clasping, thin and mem- 
branaceous, above sparsely strigose and minutely scabrous, 
underneath sparsely strigose, pale, with strong and coarse 
whitish midrib and veins; inflorescence loosely paniculate, the 
branches distant, elongated and weak, very sparingly bracted 
the few heads irregularly crowded at the ends; involucre cam- 
