418 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [DECEMBER 
1. Monopholis hexantha, sp. nov.—Shrub (or tree?); branches 
flexuous, striate-angulate, 4mm. thick, obscurely  griseous- 
puberulous with matted hairs; branchlets of the year fuscous, 
sordid-puberulous with loose several-celled subglandular hairs; 
internodes 1-2 cm. long; leaves alternate, often with fascicles of 
reduced leaves in their axils; petioles slender, naked, puberulous, 
7-13 mm. long; blades lance-ovate or the smaller lanceolate, 6— 
12 cm. long or more, 1.8—5.5 cm. wide, acuminate, at base acutely 
cuneate into the petiole, serrulate (teeth depressed, less than 1 mm. 
high, 2-4 mm. apart) or the smaller entire or subentire, pergamen- 
taceous, above green, harshly tuberculate-hispidulous with mostly 
deciduous hairs, beneath densely and softly griseous-tomentose- 
pilosulous with crisped hairs and gland-dotted, triplinerved above 
the base, bullate-rugulose above, prominulous-reticulate beneath; 
panicles terminating the branchlets, many-headed, flattish or 
rounded, 9-13 cm. wide, sordid-puberulous, the lower branches 
subtended by reduced leaves, the upper bracts linear, minute; 
pedicels 5 mm. long or usually less, often suppressed; heads dis- 
coid, 6 or 7-flowered, cylindric, 6-8 mm. high, 1.5-3 mm. thick; 
‘involucre graduate, about 3-seriate, 3.5-4.5 mm. high, passing 
gradually into the receptacular pales, the phyllaries linear-oblong 
to elliptic or sometimes elliptic-obovate, obtuse or rounded, 
subherbaceous-indurated, greenish-white, sordid-ciliate, somewhat 
glandular-puberulous, the outermost with narrow thinner some- 
times purplish-tinged margins; corollas apparently pale yellow, the 
tube sparsely pilose with several-celled hairs, 1.8 mm. long, the 
throat broadly campanulate, glabrous, 0.8-1 mm. long, the 5 teeth 
lance-ovate, acute, spreading or reflexed, glabrous, 1 mm. long; 
pales linear-elliptic, obtuse, somewhat puberulous and ciliolate, 
about 5 mm. long, similar to the inner phyllaries but longer, their 
margins somewhat thinner, inflexed and inclosing the achenes, tri- 
angular or rhombic in cross-section; achenes linear-fusiform, 3.5- 
4-5 mm. long, 0.6 mm. wide, lenticular or trigonous in cross-section, 
shortly subrostrate, blackish-brown, with callous whitish carpopod, 
glabrous, finely papillose; pappus awn rhombic-lanceolate or oblong, 
flat, acute or obtuse, usually sparsely denticulate, 1.2-1.6 mm. long, 
about 0.3 mm. wide. 
