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A REVISION OF SALMEA 197 
Sect. 1. Evusatmea Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 375 (1861), 
incl. sect. Pseudocalea Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 155 (1866). 
Receptacle linear-conic. Achenes marginally ciliate. Heads 
not aye ie 
m, 
in anthesis. Involucre 2:5-4 mm. high, the phyllaries about 3- 
seriate, sai lerig er subindurate and ee chartaceous- 
coriaceous, with s us margin, varying from val and rounded 
to ovate- Rapes ee a acumin ated to the chtonuals apex, ciliolate, 
ens L. ae 
833 (1753). Salmea scandens (L.) DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp, 141 
1813) ; Pras Bot. Mag. xlvi. t. 2062 (1819) Urb. Sym. Antill. 
v. 256 (1907), g.v. for synonymy (excl. syn. Bidens Lae cna 
ill., which = Zeamenia costaricensis Benth.; see Journ. Bot. 
lil 3. (1915 Salmea ewpatoria DC. 1. c. 141 (1813). Spil- 
anthes nitida Llay. in Llav. & Lex. Nov. Veg. i. 28 (1824). Bilona 
Gentine Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. xlvii. 88 (1827). S. parviceps 
Cass. 1. c. 88 Saeel: 8S. oppositiceps Cass. J. c. a ey 827). 8. 
salieifolis Brongn. ex Neum. Rev. Hortic. ser. 3, i. 87 (1847), ex 
char. ey nitida (Liav.) Sch. Bip. ex Klatt, Leopold. a 145 
(1887), as syn. Verbesina scandens Klatt, Leopold. 106 
(1889). rae variable year prea from the West ‘Tailed ¢ bs Vera 
ruz and Guerrero, south to Bolivia; also Ibitimi, Paraguay, 
Salata 760 (hb. Kew ; reformed 2 Salmeopsis Claussenii Benth. 
Baker, Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 3, 217). Divisible on involucral 
eee into two varieties. 
Var. GENUINA. Squamis involucri ovatis ad ovato- sugeror 
acutis ad’: acuminatis. The typical and widespread form, to 
belong Linnzus’s types (Houstown, Vera Cruz, in hb. “Brit. 
us. 
Jax OBTUSATA. ee see — ovalibus apice rotundatis. 
VeRA Cruz: Valley of Cordova, Dec. 20th, 1865-66, aie aaer 
1551 (hb. Kew). uae TEMALA : site Ween Paz, near Coban 
1342 m., March, lk ngage 392 (type, Brit. Mus.; the Kee 
[eee of this mber ar. genuina) ; Coban, alt. 1350 m., 
ebruary, 1908, Tiirekheim, TL. 993 (Brit. Mus.). 
2. S. Panmert Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xxvi. ss borden — 
apparently not scandent, glabrate or strigillose in infloresce: 
ee apm erect or divergent-ascending. ae + oblong-ovate 
to or rarely oval, acute, at base rounded to cuneate, coria- 
ae gree Sia triplinerved, oe. pallidretculate slightly 
repand-dentate, light green and glabrous both sides (sometimes 
with a few hairs on aetna nd nerves), 4°5-9'8 cm. long, 1:6-4-5cem 
wide; petioles 25-7 mm, long. Disk 8-9 mm. high, 5-6 mm. 
