A REVISION OF SALMBA 931 
9-11 mm. high, 1-2-1'7 em. wide. oe Stage 5-sub-6-seriate, 
graduated, the innermost phyllaries 4°5-5 mm. high; phyllaries 
egos scarcely striate, pale, chartaceous- s-subsoriaseous, the 
outer ovate, the inner oblong, all + strigillose, the inner very 
scaaeats scarious margined, 1-5-vittate, the 1-2 outer series with 
a l-ribbed spatulate to linear mucronate herbaceous tip which 
often exceeds the disk, the others abruptly acute, unappendaged. 
ays about 10, yellow, linear-oblong or linear, emarginate or 
3-denticulate, 5-9 mm. long, 1:2 mm. wide. Disk corollas + 
rhs reflexed at maturity, glabrous, 5 mm. long (tube 1:2 mm., 
narrow, acute, ngs se 75 m eee 
pei obovate-oblong, brownish, 3°7 mm. long, very a wly 
or ont beg on the outer nee Hie and obliquely show 
on the inner, the wing coalescent with the awn, the paleaceous 
corona laserin: 1:3 mm. high.—Greenm. Field Col. Mus. Bot. ii. 
270 1887, Papaasun Sartori ee sets ex — Leopold. xxiii. 
6174 (Brit. Mus., ia. NicaraGua: aa ng ve flowers 
yellow,” Chontales, Seemann, 106 (cotypes: Brit. Mus., Kew); 
chon 1867-68, Tate, 145 (cotype: Kew). Coesk Rica: 
“liane,” thickets, Las Vueltas, San José, alt. 635 m., December 
1898, Tonduz, 12, 739 (Brit. Mus., Kew); without definite Localiby, 
Endres, 90 (Kew w). Reported also by Greenman from Vera Cruz, 
Chiapas, and Campeche. 
rutex ramosus. Caulis tenuis sub- 
ae 2-3 cm. lata. Petioli ‘igillosi vix marginati 4-5 mm. 
longi. Capitula per speciem discoidea vix numerosa in es cae 
cymosis 3-5-cephalis pansies ot terminalibus quam oe mu sa 
6°5-7:'5 mm. altus 105-115 mm. dimetente. aorncale con- 
vexiusculum ca. 52-florum. ection 5-seriati gradati 3°5-4°5 mm. 
alti (squamis extimis sepe elongatis exclusis) squame valde 
indurate vix striate ovate ad oblongo-ovate ex sajesehon ex- 
striata 3-5 mm. os Pappus nina lacerato-fimbriatus 
cum ala exteriore brevi angustissime et interiore 1-6-mm. longa 
