426 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [DECEMBER 
Verbesina latisquama, sp. nov.—Shrub (?); branch stout, her- 
baceous, pithy, striate-subangulate, sordid-pilosulous with crisped 
hairs, glabrescent; leaves opposite; petioles stout, densely sordid- 
pilosulous, marginate above, the naked part 7-13 mm. long; blades 
ovate, 10-16 cm. long, 4.5—-8.5 cm. wide, sometimes with a short 
obscure lobe on one or both sides near middle, acuminate, at base 
cuneate-rounded and decurrent into the petiole, serrulate (teeth 
about 40 pairs, depressed, apiculate, o.5 mm. high), papery, above 
deep dull green, densely scabrid-hirsutulous (the hairs with lepidote- 
tuberculate not glandular bases) and along the veins very densely 
sordid-hirsutulous, beneath rather densely subtomentose-pilosulous 
with griseous matted hairs (probably finally deciduous) and along 
the veins densely sordid-pilosulous, triplinerved above the base; 
panicle terminal, ternately divided, pubescent like the stem, 
very many-headed, flattish, about 18cm. wide; bracts small; 
pedicels 4-10 mm. long, or obsolete; heads narrowly campanulate, 
the disk 9-10 mm. high, 4~-5 mm. thick; involucre 2 to 3-seriate, 
graduate, 4-5 mm. high, the outermost phyllaries oblong or obovate- 
oblong, 2-3 mm. long, 1.2-1.5 mm. wide, with subindurate base and 
subequal rounded herbaceous tip, ciliolate, somewhat glandular 
and puberulous, the inner similar but oval-oblong, thinner, 2 mm. 
wide; rays 2 or 3, pale yellow, fertile, the lamina oval, 6-7 mm. 
long, 3.5 mm. wide; disk flowers 8-12, yellow, pilose on tube with 
several-celled hairs, 6mm. long; pales minutely apiculate from a 
rounded ciliate apex, sparsely pilosulous on back, about 6 mm. long; 
achenes (very immature) glabrous; awns subequal, hispidulous 
above, about 4.5 mm. long. 
Ecuapor.—In shrubbery along roads, Cuenca, September 15, 1920, 
E. W. D. and M. M. Holway 994A (type in U.S. National Herbarium no. 
1058643). 
Allied to V. adenobasis described above, but with different pubescence and 
toothing of leaves, larger rays, and much broader phyllaries. 
Calea huigrensis, sp. nov.—Shrub 1-3 m. high; stem terete, 
densely hispidulous-puberulous and hirsute-pilose with several- 
celled spreading hairs, the long ones mostly deciduous or sometimes 
entirely wanting; leaves opposite; petioles hispidulous-puberulous 
and gland-dotted, corky-thickened at base, 4-7 mm. long; blades 
