BLAKE.— ENCELIA AND RELATED GENERA. 391 
and margin above; achene blackish or dark-mottled, ovate-oblong, 
subobcordate, appressed-pubescent, 5-6 mm. long, 2.56 mm. wide, 
bearing 2 awns 4-5.5 mm. long. 
Be Simsia grandiflora Benth. Vidensk. Medd. Kjébenh. for 1852. 92 
(1853). 
Encelia grandiflora Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. ii. 184 (1881). 
Specimens examined: NicarRaAGUA: very common on the high pla- 
teaus toward the Pueblos, Niquinohomo, Dept. of Granada, 13 Feb. 
1903, Baker 2419 (GN); waste land near Granada, alt. 40 m., Jan. 
1870, P. Levy 355 (Bot. Mus. Copenhagen); Costa Rica (?): sunny 
pastures near Ojos de Agua,— 352 & 382 (G, ex herb. Klatt). There 
seems to be no place of this name in Costa Rica, and the town so called 
in Honduras may have been intended. Bentham’s type (Oersted 100) 
came from Volcan el Viejo, Nicaragua. 
A A. Achene 5 mm. long; bracts not strongly ribbed; Central American. 
17. S. potycepHata Benth. Base not seen; stem and the numer- 
ous branches densely glandular and pilose-hispid; middle leaves ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, truncate or subcordate at base, 
crenate-dentate, glandular-hispid both sides, 4-7 em. long, 3.5-5 em. 
wide, on nearly marginless densely glandular-hispid petioles 1.5-2.5 
em. long, with slightly enlarged bases; heads numerous, cymose- 
paniculate, on glandular-setose peduncles 1-7 cm. long; disk 11-13 
mm. high, 12-17 mm. broad; involucre nearly as tall, its scales tri- 
seriate, subequal or the outer a little shorter, glandular-hispid, oblong- 
ceolate, bluntish, only slightly striate-ribbed; rays 5-7 mm. long, 
yellow; disk-corollas 6 mm. long (tube 1.5 mm.), yellow, glandular 
below, pubescent on the teeth; pales 8-10.5 mm. long, pubescent 
above, greenish toward the apex; achenes blackish, appressed-pubes- 
cent chiefly on margin and middle, 5 mm. long, 2.6-3.5 mm. wide, the 
awns 3.2 mm. long. 
a he polycephala Benth. Vidensk. Medd. Kjébenh. for 1852. 93 
Encelia polycephala Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. ii. 184 (1881). 
pecimens examined: GuaTeMALA: Cerro Redondo, Dept. Santa 
Rosa, alt. 1372 m., Oct. 1894, Heyde & Lux 6160 (FGN); Chupadero, 
Dept. Santa Rosa, alt. 1600 m., Oct. 1892, Heyde & Lux 3810 (FG). 
— — Even the lower leaves ey contracted to broadly margined clasping 
ases. 
megacephala Sch. Bip. in herb., herbacea supra 
andulari-pubescens et praecipue in inflorescentia piloso- 
o 
18. § 
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