930 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
onger; awns united to the paleaceous corona, composed of ca. 6 
dontculata to a squamelle united nearly to apex into 
cup, tracted at base. — Opposite- leaved shrubs with 
eellaw am malate heads. Leaves penninerved, triplinerved, or 
-nerved, acuminate, obscurely or obviously dentate, petioled. 
Heads pees small to medium, in few- ae headed axillary and 
termina L eyipee panicles.—Otopappus Benth. in B. & H. Gen. Pi. 
ii. 380, no. 408 (1873); in Hook. Ie. xii. ‘W, t. 1153 (1873); SS 
Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. ii. 191, t. 49 (1881). Zexmenia Llav. s 
Otopappus (Benth.) O. Hoffm. in Engl. & Prantl, Peiaaseeiede : 
pt. 5, 238, f. 1160 (1890). 
Key To SPEcIEs. 
Leaves snc ovate, cuneate to rounded at base, mostly 
nerved, merely strigose or strigillose both 
th above 
sl ies smoo 
Leaves cmp! distinctly repand- dentate ; pedicels 
tly 1-2 em. long 1. verbesinotdes. 
Leaves etoinery asa. serrulate ; pedicels seks 
-7 mm. long 2. trinervis. 
Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, truncate to subcordate at 
ase, mostly nies triplinerved, tuberculate- 
trigose and very scabrous at least above, 
i 8. 
Heads radi 
Leaves easy strigillose along the veins beneath 
. microcephalus. 
Leaves densely spreading- se ese beneath 
4, Pringlet. 
Heads discoid. 
Leaves densely sok Pe beneath. 
Leaves 3-5-5 em. lon 5. xanthocarphus. 
Leaves 65-17 e1 cm fie 
Involucre 3 inm. high 6. speech 
e 6-7 m 7. robust 
Inyoluer . high 
Leaves merely pilosulous along veins beneath 
8. glabratus. 
1. O. veRBESINOIDES Benth. in Hook. Ic. xii. 47, t. 1153 (1873). 
Branching, straggling or scandent shrub; the stem slender, 
ong-acuminate, cuneate-rounded at base, sh ly subremotely 
repand-dentate or sometimes merely denticulate, 3- or etim 
necsine | iiphnerved, green both sides, shiny above, sparsely 
culate-based, 8-18 cm. long, 2-6: 3 cm. wide: on scarcely margine 
strigose petioles = eee ae Heads cymose-panicled in 1’s-5’s 
on terminal and strigillose or pilosulous peduncles usually 
much shorter jue et! leaves, the slender pedicels mostly 1-2 cm. 
long; heads 1:5-2°3 cm. wide. Disk t Saleh 
