1922] BLAKE—ASTERACEAE 427 
ovate, those of the main stem 4-7.5 cm. long, 2—-3.8 cm. wide, acute, 
at base rounded or cuneate-rounded, serrulate (teeth small, 
4-7 pairs), slightly revolute-margined, papery, harshly tuberculate- 
hispidulous above, beneath equally green, densely gland-dotted, 
hispidulous along the veins, 3-nerved and prominent-reticulate, 
above impressed-veined and rugose; heads in umbelliform clusters 
of 5-9 at tips of stem and branchlets, on densely puberulous pedi- 
cels 3-12 mm. long, 21-flowered, campanulate, 9-10 mm. high, 4- 
6mm. thick; involucre 6-7 mm. high, about 5-seriate, graduate, 
the outermost phyllaries ovate, 1.5mm. long, with callous tip, 
puberulous and gland-dotted, the middle phyllaries oblong, rounded, 
brownish above, subscarious, vittate, sometimes ciliolate, obscurely 
puberulous above or glabrous, the inner obovate-oblong or oblong, 
rounded, vittate, yellow, scarious, glabrous, all appressed; rays 3, 
fertile, golden yellow, erectish, the lamina oblong, 3 mm. long; disk 
flowers 18, their corollas golden yellow, glabrous, 6 mm. long (tube 
2.2mm., throat cylindric, 3.2 mm., teeth o.6mm.); pales yellow, 
scarious, acute, obtuse, or bifid, glabrous, lacerate toward tip, 
4.5 mm. long; achenes of ray and disk similar, hispidulous, 2.5 mm. 
long; pappus of 20 linear-lanceolate acuminate paleaceous awns 
5 mm. long. 
Ecuapor.—Banks of old railway grade, Huigra, Province of Chimborazo, 
August 7, 1920, E. W. D. and M. M. Holway 856 (type in U.S. National Herba- 
rium no. 1058628); same locality, altitude 1525-1675 m., August 21, 1918, 
J.N. and G. Rose 22283. 
A member of the section EucALEA, related to C. umbellulata Hochr., which 
has glabrous achenes and only 6-9 disk flowers. The heads of this species 
impart a strong saffron color to the water in which they are boiled. 
Gynoxys hypomalaca, sp. nov.—Shrub 3 m. high; stem stout, 
subterete, cinerous-tomentulose; young branches angled, densely 
cinereous- or ochraceous-tomentose; leaves opposite; petioles 
closely ochraceous-tomentose, 1.5-2.7 cm. long; blades ovate or 
oblong-ovate, 7-12 cm. long, 2.8-4.5 cm. wide, acuminate, apiculate, 
at base broadly rounded, obscurely and remotely serrulate with 
inflexed glandular teeth, appearing entire, coriaceous, above deep 
green, sparsely pilosulous, quickly glabrate except along the puberu- 
lous costa and sometimes the veins, beneath densely and softly 
