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hairs above, canescent-tomentose beneath, crenate-serrate, 4-7.5 cm. 
long, 3-6 cm. wide, on puberulent-pilose wingless earless petioles 
1-1.5 cm. long; heads rather closely corymbed at tips of branches, 
the short peduncles densely pubescent; heads 1.2 em. high; invo- 
lucre triseriate, the outer scales ovate, densely pilose, half the length 
of the oblong less pilose inner ones, all acute and striate; rays few, 
yellow, oblong, 8 mm. long;°* disk-corollas 7 mm. long, pilose on tube 
and teeth, yellowish becoming darker; pales 9 mm. long, laterally 
somewhat toothed, pilose on back and tip; achenes 4.3 mm. long, 
1.9 mm. wide, blackish, more or less appressed-pubescent on sides 
and tip, bearing 2 slender slightly ciliate awns. 
Encelia mexicana Klatt, Engl. Bot. Jahrb. viii. 43 (1887), not Mart. 
Encelia fruticulosa Hieron. |. c. xix. 54 (1894), not Hopkirkia fruti- 
culosa papi Sys. iii. 444 (1826), fide Hieron. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
XXIx. 1900). 
ely Sodiroi Hieron. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 43 (1900). 
Specimen examined: CoLuMBIA: open savannas of the Rio Dagua, 
Cauca, alt. 800 m., 15 July 1883, Lehmann 2964 (G). Reported also 
by Hieronymus front Ecuador, along the Guallabamba R. (type 
— ty). 
S. PUBESCENS Triana. “Suffrutex erectus; ramis gracilibus, 
séuhe Nitin: minute puberulo-hirtis; foliis inferioribus oppositis, 
superioribus alternis ovato-lanceolatis acutis dentato-serratis, supra 
pubescentibus, subtus dense pubescenti-canescentibus, deorsum sub- 
abrupte in petiolum longum attenuatis, petiolo basi auriculato-am- 
plexicauli; involucri squamis striatis, dorso tenuiter pubescentibus, 
exterioribus ovatis, interioribus oblongo-lanceolatis, utrisque acutis; 
- capitulis pedunculatis, laxe corymbosis; acheniis atris, alatis, oblongis, 
undique decumbenti-pilosis. 
“Crescit altitudine 1400 metr. inter Tena et El Colegio, in devexis 
occidentalibus Andium Bogotensium. 
Simsia pubescens Triana, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. sér. 4. ix. 40 (1858). 
This species, not since recognized, appears to differ from S. Sodirot 
only in its auriculate-amplexicaul petioles and perhaps in the less 
pubescent scales of the involucre, and may be identical with that 
species, but in the absence of specimens it seems unwise to combine 
them. 
39 Described by pera as stylose, but neutral in the Lehmann plant 
which he refers to EL. Sod 
