1922] BLAKE—ASTERACEAE 419 
Ecuapor.—Cuenca, September 10, 1920, E. W. D. and M. M. Holway 973 
(type in U.S. National Herbarium no. 105864 
Monopholis pallat is(Hieron.) Blake.—Chaenocephalus 
a teat Hieron. Bot. Jahrb. Engler 29:47. 1900. 
Known only from the type collection made by Soprro (no. 38) in the 
Pallatanga Valley, Ecuador. Fragments are in the U.S. National Herbarium. 
Hieronymus describes the heads as 9 or ro-flowered, but I have found 12 
flowers (all tubular) in each of two heads dissected. 
3. Monopholis holwayae, sp. nov.—Branches stoutish, flexuous, 
striate-ridged, sordid-puberulous with crisped hairs; internodes 
2-5.5 cm. long; leaves alternate; petioles pubescent like the stem, 
naked, 7-15 mm. long; blades ovate, 8-18 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, 
acuminate, acutely cuneate into the petiole, remotely crenulate- 
serrulate and somewhat repand or subentire, pergamentaceous, 
above deep green, densely and harshly tuberculate-hispidulous, 
along the veins sordid-puberulous, bullate in age, beneath rather 
densely and softly griseous-pilosulous-tomentose and gland-dotted, 
sordid-pilosulous along the chief veins, triplinerved above the base, 
prominulous-reticulate beneath; panicles terminating the branch- 
lets, flattish or convex, many-headed, 8~10.5 cm. wide, sordid- 
puberulous with crisped subglandular hairs; pedicels usually 
obsolete, sometimes up to 2mm. long; heads discoid, 8 to r1- 
flowered, cylindric, 9-10 mm. high, 2.5-3.5 mm. thick; involucre 
graduate, about 3-seriate, 4-5 mm. high, the phyllaries linear- 
elliptic or the inner oblong, obtuse, subindurate below and with 
thinner hyaline-subherbaceous greenish-yellow tip, sordid-ciliate, 
sparsely glandular, passing into the pales of disk; corollas appar- 
ently pale yellow, the tube sparsely long-pilose with several-celled 
hairs, 2 mm. long, the broadly campanulate glabrous throat 1 mm. 
long, the lance-ovate acute reflexed glabrous teeth 1.5 mm. long; 
pales elliptic, obtuse, sordid-ciliate, dorsally sordid-pilose and 
somewhat glandular, about 7mm. long, the inner with inflexed 
margins more or less closely enveloping the achenes, the outer 
flattish; achenes similar to those of M. hexantha but with more 
acutely fas er base, 4.5 mm. long; pappus awn 1.3-1.5 mm. long. 
Ecuapor.—Cuenca, September 15, 1920, E. W. D. and M. M. Holway 989 
id ih in U. S. N ational Herbarium no. lpg nig 
rs. Mary M. Hotway, who accom- 
calla Professor Sesto on his South ce trip. 
