1922] BLAKE—ASTERACEAE 423 
Perymenium ecuadoricum, sp. nov.—Shrub(?); stem (above) 
and branches herbaceous, 4mm. thick, harshly spreading- or 
ascending-hispidulous, or sometimes strigillose; leaves opposite; 
petioles naked, 7-20mm. long, tuberculate-strigillose, hirsute- 
ciliate; blades ovate, 5—10.5 cm. long, 2.5—5 cm. wide, acuminate or 
acute, at base truncate-rounded or rounded to cordate, crenate- 
serrulate throughout (teeth about 32 pairs, obtuse, about 1 mm. 
high), thick-papery, above deep green, bullate-rugulose, harshly 
tuberculate-hispidulous, beneath densely and almost softly griseous- 
hirsutulous-pilosulous and along the veins hirsute, triplinerved, the 
veins and veinlets impressed above, densely prominulous-reticulate 
beneath; peduncles ternately arranged, terminal and from the upper 
axils, strigillose or erect-hirsutulous, 3.5-9.5 cm. long, bearing 2-4 
heads on pedicels 1-5 cm. long, the bracts mostly very small, rarely 
leaflike; heads 2.5-3 cm. wide; disk subglobose, 7-8 mm. high, 
8-10 mm. thick; involucre 4-seriate, graduate, 7-8 mm. high, the 
phyllaries broadly oval or the outermost oblong-ovate, with some- 
what indurated base and shorter or subequal herbaceous or . 
membranous-herbaceous rounded appressed tip, strigillose and 
ciliate, the inner glabrous above on back; rays 12, golden yellow, 
fertile, the lamina oblong-elliptic, 13mm. long, 4.5mm. wide; 
disk corollas yellow, papillose-hispidulous on teeth, 4.8 mm. long; 
pales obtuse to acute, minutely spinulose-denticulate on keel and 
toward apex, about 4mm. long; disk achenes oblong, 2 mm. long, 
somewhat thickened but compressed, transversely rugulose, sparsely 
hispidulous above, often narrowly winged above on the inner side 
and there produced into an ear about 0.5 mm. high, sometimes also 
with a shorter tooth on the outer angle; pappus fragile, of about 
ro unequal slender hispidulous awns 0.8 mm. long or less, and 
I awn twice as long. 
Ecvapor.—Huigra, Province of Chimborazo, August 3, 1920, Z. W. D. and 
M. M. Holway 828 (type in U.S. National Herbarium no. 1058652); same 
locality, August 18, 1918, J. N. and G. Rose 23820. 
Closely related to the Peruvian P. jelskii (Hieron.) Blake (Wedelia jelskii 
Hieron. Bot. Jahrb. Engler 36:488. 1905), of the type of which ample frag- 
ments are now in the National Herbarium. In that species, however, the 
leaves beneath are pale green rather than griseous, and much less densely 
pubescent, and their petioles are only 4-7 mm. long, while the stem is rather 
sparsely strigillose. 
