424 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [DECEMBER 
Steiractinia rosei, sp. nov.—Shrub; stem stout, densely sordid- 
pilose with matted erectish or loose hairs with small tuberculate 
bases, glabrescent; leaves opposite; petioles pubescent like the 
stem, naked, 7-17 mm. long; blades ovate or the smaller lance- 
ovate, 8-14 cm. long, 3.5—-7 cm. wide, acuminate, at base cuneate- 
rounded, closely crenate-serrate or crenate-serrulate with depressed 
teeth, papery, above green, densely and harshly tuberculate- 
hispidulous, along the chief veins sometimes densely pilose, beneath 
rather softly and densely griseous-pilosulous or short-pilose, tripli- 
nerved above the base, impressed-veined and somewhat bullate 
above, prominulous-reticulate beneath; peduncles in threes at tip 
of stem and branches, pubescent like the stem, 3-8 cm. long, bear- 
ing 1 or sometimes 2 or 3 heads, usually naked; heads about 4 cm. 
wide; disk depressed-subglobose, in flower 8-12 mm. high, 8-15 mm. 
thick, in fruit 1.2-1.5 cm. high, 1.5—2 cm. thick; involucre about 
4-seriate, graduate, 9 to (fruit) 15 mm. high, the outermost phylla- 
ries suborbicular, herbaceous or with indurated base, acute or apicu- 
late to obtuse, strigillose and somewhat strigose, 7-9 mm. long, 
5-7 mm. wide, the middle ones very broadly obovate-oval, with 
rounded ampliate submembranous loose upper portion, ciliate, on 
back somewhat strigose or hirsute and strigillose, 8-11 mm. wide, 
the innermost similar but smaller and shorter, often nearly glabrous; 
rays 10, neutral, yellow, the lamina elliptic-oblong, when well 
developed 2.5 cm. long, 8mm. wide; disk corollas yellow, 5.8 to 
(in age) 7.8 mm. long (tube 1.5-2.8 mm., throat 3.5-4.2 mm., teeth 
sparsely hispidulous near tip, papillose along margin within, o.8 mm. 
long); pales narrow, acute, carinate, spinulose-denticulate above, 
about 8mm. long; achenes obovate-oblong, compressed, blackish, 
narrowly 2-winged, 3.8mm. long, sparsely hirsute-pilose, on the 
wings hirsute-ciliate, slightly contracted at apex into a collar about 
0.3 mm. high, this bearing the caducous pappus of about 30 slender 
unequal hispidulous awns 3 mm. long or less. 
Ecvuapor.—Huigra, Province of Chimborazo, August 4, 1920, E. W. D. and 
M. M. Holway 832. Vicinity of Loja, September 29-October 3, 1918, J. NV. 
Rose, A. Pachano, and G. Rose 23290 (type in U.S. National Herbarium no. 
1023389). 
Related to S. sodiroi (Hieron.) Blake, which has larger heads and outer 
phyllaries rather abruptly contracted into an indurated base. 
