kONGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 32. N:0 5. 2? 



nervis secundariis utroque latere vulgo 4 — 5. Inflorescentia scorpioideo-cymosa, contracta, 

 oligocepliala, bracteis foliaceis, eadem forma ac folia at siepe minoribus, calathidia vulgo 

 superanlibus. Calathidia sessilia, solitaria, civciter 25-flora. Involucra urceolato-campanu- 

 lata, vulgo 7 — 8 mm. longa, circiter 6 mm. crassa; squamte 4 — 5-seriatfe, adpressje, apicem 

 versus sfepe violascentes, lanceolatce, acutffi, infimae 2 mm. longse, circiter 0,66 mm. lat£e, 

 media3 4 — 5 mm. longaä, 1,5 mm. lataj, superiores (interiores) circiter 7 mm. longa?, 1,5— 

 1,66 mm. latffi, omnes dorso sericeo-pubescentes, margine ciliata?. Corolla circiter 7 mm. 

 longa, tubo glabro circiter 5 mm. longo, sursum sensim dilatato; lobis limbi coerulei 

 circiter 2 mm. longis, vix 0,5 mm. latis, sublinearibus, acutis, apicem vei-sus dorso glan- 

 dulis sessilibus, liyalinis, copiosis ornatis, ceterum glabris. Antherce generis, paullulum 

 exserta?, circiter 4 mm. longa?. Rami styli subulati, dense hirtelli, diu (an persistenter?) 

 tubo autherarum inclusi. AcJwnia turbinata, brevia, circiter 1,5 mm. longa, longe denseque 

 albido-sericea ; pappus albidus, setis interioribus 6 mm. longis, rigidis, caducis, exteriox^i- 

 bus 1 — 1,5 mm. longis, sat latis. 



Måtto Grosso: Serra da Cbapada, pr. Säo Jeronymo (Supra rupes et in fissuris ru- 

 pium; locis apricis, ventosis. 18 ^Ve 94. Malme 1700.). 



Arcte affinis V. nitenti Gardn. (Baker, 1. c. pag. 78), qute non nisi e descriptione 

 mihi est nota; forsan sit ejus varietas. Differt foliis multo minoribus, pro rata paullulo 

 latioribus, calathidiis minoribus, floribus paucioribus etc. 



V. rigescens Malme n. sp. 



Ic. : tab. nostr. I tig. 4. 



Lepidaploa axilliflora, herbacea (v. suffruticosa), usque ad 1 m. älta. Caulis sub- 

 siraplex, usque ad apicem foliatus, teres, striatus v. leviter sulcatus, glaber, pra?sertim 

 apicem versus saspe purpurascens, inferne usque ad 5 mm. crassus, internodiis vulgo 

 2 — 3 cm. longis. Folia sessilia, utrinque viridia v. subtus paullulum glaucescentia, rigida, 

 linearia v. anguste lanceolata, ssepe canaliculata, integerrima, margine hand revoluta, media 

 (10 — )ll — 13( — 14) cm. longa, 6 — 7 mm. lata, omnia utroque apice acuta, supra et subtus 

 glabra, nervis venisque utrinque exsculptis tuberculisque parvis scabridulis. Inflorescentia scor- 

 pioideo-cymosa, läxa, ampla, ramis saspissime simjDlicibus, scorpioideis, vulgo pleiocephalis; 

 bracteis foliaceis, vulgo linearibus, angustissimis, calathidia multoties superantibus. Cala- 

 thidia sessilia, solitaria, rarius gemina, circiter 15-flora. Involucra basi ovoidea, medio 

 constrictula, 8 — 10 mm. longa, 3 — 4 mm. crassa; squama? circiter 5-seriata?, omnes ad- 

 pressae v. infimte squarrosula?, infima? lanceolata3-triangulares vix 0,5 mm. lata?, medit^ 

 ovatee 3,5 — 4 mm. longa?, 1,5 — 2( — 2,5) mm. lata?, breviter mucronatte, supei'iores (inte- 

 riores) lanceolatse 7 — 9 mm. longa?, 1,5 — 2 mm. lata^, acuta? v. acuminatfe, omnes apicem 

 versus purpurascentes, prtesertim media? margine longe et sat dense ciliata?, dorso pilis 

 p. p. maxima brevibus et basi incrassata nigris, adpressis parce vestita?. Corolla circiter 

 8 mm. longa, tubo circiter 3,5 mm. longo; lobis limbi violaceo-purpurei circiter 3 mm. 

 longis, anguste lanceolatis v. sublinearibus, acutis, apicem versus dorso pilis brevibus, atris 

 parcissime ornatis. Antherce exserta?, circiter 4 mm. longse, basi profunde (0,5 mm.) 

 sagittata?, apice longe appendiculata?. Achenia 2—2,5 mm. longa. turbinata, manifeste 



