160 New Species of South American Plants 



successively shorter, ovate, thick and rigid, the inner narrowly 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate, scarious. Rays sub-2-seriaUed, the 

 akenes short, oblong, minutely hispid, the pappus white, ser- 

 rate, the outer very sparse, of short bristles, the inner fairly 

 copious. Tube of the ray-corollas very slender, nearly as long 

 as the limb, which is linear-oblanceolate and minutely 3-toothed. 

 Style long-exserted, the lobes very long. Akenes of the disk 

 similar, but a little larger, the pappus similar, the receptacle 

 densely chaffy with white, very narrow and bristle-like scales. 

 Disk-corollas slightly exceeding the pappus, abruptly expanded 

 into the limb, which is lobed more than half way, the lobes 

 narrow. 



"On Rio Palace, highlands of Popayan, 1,500-1,600 M., 

 November, 1886." (Lehmann, No. 1146.) 



Liabutn stipulatum. 



White-flocose, except the involucres, the upper leaf-surfaces 

 sparingly so. Stems stout, erect, branching, a meter high, 

 strongly angled and sulcate, the upper internodes 10 cm. or 

 more long. Upper petioles (only the upper leaves seen) 4 or 

 5 cm. long, broad, margined, subtended by short, broad, rounded, 

 stipule-like appendages, the blades about 20 cm. long, and 

 two-thirds as wide, triangular-ovate, the base sub-truncate and 

 abruptly produced into the petiole, the summit short-acuminate, 

 the margin serrulate with minute salient teeth; two principal 

 veins ascending from near the base, the venation slender and 

 coarsely reticulate. Terminal corymb sessile in a pair of small, 

 narrow leaves, compound, very broad, its branches long-ped- 

 uncled. Heads mostly peduncled, the peduncles of variable 

 length, the heads 7 or 8 mm. long and of greater breadth, as 

 pressed, the flowers little exceeding the longer involucral scales. 

 Involucre broadly campanulate, its scales in about 5 or 6 series, 

 all lanceolate and acuminate, with green middle portions, the 

 outer successively shorter, the innermost narrowly lance- 

 linear, all appressed. Rays sub-two-serialled, yellow, slightly 

 exceeding the disk, two-thirds of their length very slender and 

 pilose, the upper third oblanceolate, minutely 3-dentate. Re- 

 ceptacle foveolate, coarsely hairy. Disk-corollas about 5 mm. 

 long, regularly infundibular, lobed a third of their length, the 

 lobes lanceolate, obtuse. Anther cells obtuse at the base. 

 Style-branches elongated, pilose. Akenes short, sparsely pilose. 

 Outer pappus almost absent, the innner short-plumose, nearly 

 white. 



"Rare in clearings, 3,500-5,000 feet. Collected at Las 

 Nubes, 4,500 feet, February 7." (Herbert H. Smith, No. 200.) 

 The same as Lehmann's 1147, from Popayan. 



