150 New Species of South Ameeican Plants 



late. Akenes light-brown, oblong, slightly compressed, nearly 

 I mm. long, minutely hispid. Pappus white, about 2 mm. 

 long and about equaling the corollas, slightly united at the 

 base. Corollas narrowly infundibular, the summit brown, 

 shortly 5-lobed, the lobes broadly triangular-ovate, acute, 

 lightly recurved. 



(' In clearing, 4,500 feet, December 18. " (Herbert H. Smith, 

 Colombia, No. 606.) 



Clibadium latifolium. 



Lightly scabrous. Branches slender, obtusely angled. Peti- 

 oles 2 to 5 cm. long, slender, nerved, channeled above, attached 

 by a broad base, the blades 8 to 15 cm. long, 4 to 10 cm. broad, 

 ovate, the rounded base abruptly produced into the petiole, 

 short-acuminate at the summit, lightly crenate-serrate, thin, 

 deep-green, a pair of principal veins ascending from near the 

 base, the venation very slender. Cymes in the upper axils 

 and terminal, forming a broad panicle, long-peduncled, the 

 heads somewhat crowded, subsessile, about 7 mm. long, the 

 campanulate involucre half as long as the disk. Scales broadly 

 ovate with rounded summit or sub-rotund, the margin minutely 

 fimbriate. Outer corollas about two-thirds the length of the 

 inner, narrowly and equally infundibular, 5-lobed, the lobes 

 short, rounded at the summit, the long style-branches strongly 

 recurved. Akenes obovoid, strongly compressed. Central cor- 

 ollas broadly cylindrical-campanulate, compressed and curved, 

 about 3 mm. long, the lobes about one- third of the total length, 

 erect, ovate, obtuse, fimbriate, the anthers black, exserted 

 about half of their length, slightly exceeded by the undivided, 

 strongly pilose style, their empty akenes oblanceolate", truncate 

 and bearing 2 or 3 very small, weak, white setae. 



"A shrub, 4 feet high, in open places in alluvial forest on 

 banks of river Buritaca, 2 miles from the sea; the flowers white; 

 September 25." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 2014.) 



Clibadium lanceolatum. 



Strongly scabrous, except the lower leaf-surfaces, which 

 are rather softly hairy. Branches slender, weak and flexuous, 

 nearly terete, striate, light-brown, the internodes about 7 cm. 

 long. Petioles slender, i to 2 cm. long, the blades 7 to 10 cm. 

 long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, regularly lanceolate-acuminate with 

 rounded base, finely serrate with mucronulate teeth, hispid on 

 the upper surface, the venation sparse and very slender. Cymes 

 long-peduncled at the ends of the branches and in the upper 

 axils, broad and loosely branched. Heads 5 mm. long and 

 broad, the scales almost equaling the flowers, broadly ovate, 

 the summit rounded but with a slight point at the center. 

 Pistillate corollas 2 mm. long, infundibular, curved, the ovate- 



