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marginatis 1-1-5 mm. longis. Flores pauci in axillis foliorum 
solitarii brevissime pedicellati; pedicelli ad 1-5 mm. longi puberuli 
Le tae 2 ovatis obtusis eer 1 mm. longis preediti. 
alyx (anthesi) 4-dentatus appresse pilosulus 3°5 mm. longus 
antes deltoideis appresse 5 pics et ciliatis 1 mm. longis). 
orolla rubescens cylindrico-urceolata 4-dentata extus sparse 
appresse BSC MRR glanduloso-hispida 9 mm. longa ca. 4 mm. 
imete rium culare. i 
filamenta purpurascentia oblonga medio sparse pilosa; loculi 
antherarum 1:7 mm. longi exaristati ; tubi 2-5 mm. longi. 
Fructus deest. 
Nee Rica: alt. 1550 m., La Palma, Prov. San José, August, 
Tonduz (‘12546 herb. nat. Cost.”: distr. J. D. Smith, 
7380) (hb. Brit. Mus., hb. Kew 
Distributed as V. pachyphyllum Hemsl., Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 
ii. 275 ge apr is very distinct in its much smaller (ca. 
x m.) oval obtuse leaves, smaller sessile flowers, glabrous 
calyx (sit the tooth ciliate toward apex), and densely shortly 
mer i us-pilose branchlets. Tonduz 12453, from Costa Rica, 
distributed by J. Donnell Smith under the number 7464 as 
V. alaternoides Hook., is identical with Endres 154, type of 
V. pachyphyllum Hemsl. 
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM.—III.* 
By James Brirren, F.L.S. 
CENTAUREA RIGIDA Banks & Sol. 
“ Centaurea rigida; calycibus simplicissimis spinosis: spinis 
erectis, foliis scabris: inferioribus pinn natifidis ; superioribus lan- 
ceolatis integris, ramis paniculatis,” Russell, Aleppo, ii. 263. Good 
specimens collected near Aleppo by Russell leave no doubt that 
not is identical with C. sagvicdaphttd Schultz 6% although the 
eets—there are two—now bear no name (I think a tee erased 
witch the plant was written up as C. myriocephala). The descrip- 
tion of the plant cited above seems to have been eine. in 
C. Prodr. vi. 604, only the name is cited (as “Russ. ex Steud. 
m5 
Boissier, who does not seem to have seen Russell’s book, ignores 
sartar In the Index to the Prodromus (pt. 2, vi.) Buek names 
the plant C. Russeliana, having noted that C. rigida had been 
retained i the plant so named by Willdenow. C. Russeliana, 
by the way, finds no place in the tadee Kewensis, wherein little 
account is taken of Buek’s names published in his Index. 
Were s C. rigida (Enum. Pl. Hort. ee Suppl. 61) is 
an obscure plant; it is thus desekited :—C. calycibus ciliato- 
sabépincats: foliis cblongis tomentosis sessilibus pa rea basi 
* For preceding notes, see Journ. Bot, 1907, 313; 1909, 41, 
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