A REVISION OF SALMBA 929 
Guadalajara, Jalisco, September 11th, 1891 (Brit. Mus., Kew) ) is 
intermediate but nearer var. acwminata. Watson’s type (same 
locality, October, 1889, Pringle, 2999) has not been examined. 
PALEACEA (Hemsl.), n.comb. Shrub with slender sub- 
ve 
y to narrowly ovate, acute acuminate, truncate to 
rounded-truncate at base, serrate with very depressed. strong 
mucronate teeth, green both sides, very tuberculate- 
harshly hispidulous along the venation and sparsely gland-dotted, 
triplinerved, 6-97 cm. long, 2-4-5 em. wide, on tuberculate- 
strigillose marginless petioles 1-2-2 cm. long. Heads three to 
eight, 2-2 cm. wide, on axillary and terminal naked monocephalous 
tuberculate- feeonigays 7 peduncles 0:8-4-5 em. long, much shorter 
than the lea Disk 1:1-1:2 cm. high, rgd em wide 
voluere 5- aah 6. ae raduated, 8 mm. high, the outermos 6 phyt- 
laries oblong- haere ray fr ap rpot herbaccous throughout 
or indurated at the ex e base, the tips loose; next two series 
gradually longer, brbag deol sieigiions strongly ioaciranee. 
chartaceous-coriaceous, with darker scarious margin and abrupt 
short mucronate spreading herbaceous tip; the others gradually 
longer, oblong, acutish, like the last but without herbaceous tip, 
passing gradually into the outermost pales. Rays about 38, pale 
yellow, sterile, with short included style, oblong, emarginate, 
: ide. isk 
8 mm. long. Achenes brownish- black, eeney eee — 
oblong, 3 mm. long, 9n the outer angle with an awn 0° ong, 
to the 1'8 mm, long awn.—Otopappus epaleaceus Hemsl.! Biol. 
Centr. Am. Bot. ii. 191 (1881).—Morrxos: laya-fields near 
Xantepec, alt. 1372 m., October 8rd, 1902, Pringle, 8731 (Brit. 
a Kew). Mexico, ‘without locality, 1846, Baites, 7 (type: 
w). 
IV. Oroparrus Benth. 
t the achenes. Ra 8 none or present and ligulate, fertile, 
see narrowly ae ng, about 10-18. _ Disk corollas reves 
