536 ROBINSON. 
reductis linearibus pedicellos (2-7 mm. longos) obscure puberulos 
longitudine paullo superantibus; capitulis parvis ca. 12-floris; in- 
volucri vix imbricati squamis 7-10 linearibus acutis minute puberulis 
crassiusculis maturitate stellatim patentibus ad 5 mm. longis; flos- 
culis 6.8 mm. longis; corolla tubiformi granulata sursum paullo am- 
pliata 3.6 mm. longa, limbi dentibus deltoideis brevibus patentibus; 
antheris apice cum appendice ovata membranacea munitis; achaeniis 
gracilibus deorsum attenuatis ca. 3.2 mm. longis 5-angulatis costulis 
secundariis 1-2 inter costas primarias hine inde interjectis; pappi 
setis sordidis ca. 30 vix barbellatis tenuibus corollam aequantibus.— 
CuBa: moist banks, on the trail from Camp La Barga (alt. 450 m.) 
to Camp San Benito (alt. 900 m.), Oriente, 22-26 February, 1910, 
J. A. Shafer, no. 4105 (rypx, in herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.; photograph 
and fragment in Gray Herb.). 
Evupatortum ScHULTzII Schnittspahn, Zeitschr. d. Gartenbauver- 
eins z. Darmst. 1857, p. 6. This species appears to have four dis- 
oe forms, which may be briefly characterized as follows: 
a typicum, pedicellis dense cum glandulis capitatis numero- 
Bae puberulis, pilis paucis non capitatis hine inde interspersis; 
involucri squamis albidis, intermediis elliptico-oblongis apice ro- 
tundatis glabris vel subglabris non ciliatis— Represented in the Gray 
Herbarium as follows: material cultivated in the Darmstadt Botanical 
Garden and authoritively labeled by Schultz himself; also VERA 
Cruz: Mirador, Liebmann, no. 41, Sartorius (without number); 
Zacuapan, Purpus, no. 2372; Cutapas: C. & E. Seler, no. 2219; 
Costa Rica: Ojo de Agua, Hoffmann, no. 394, Rodeo de Pacaca, 
Pittier, no. 3285, slopes of Rodeo, at 1100 m. altitude, Pittier, no. 
1600; Guaremata: Cubelquitz, Depart. Alta Verapaz, alt. 350 m., 
von Tuerckheim, no. 7888. 
Forma erythranthodium, forma nova, formae typicae simile sed 
differt conspicuiter involucri squamis pulchriter purpureis.— GuaTE- 
MALA: Coban, altitude 1350 m., von Tuerckheim, no. II. 2090 (TYPE, 
in Gray Herb.). 
Forma velutipes, forma nova, formae typicae simile diffett pedi- 
cellis velutino-tomentellis vix vel solum obsolescente glandulosis.— 
GuATEMALA: San Lucas Toliman, Sololé, altitude 1560 m., 2 February, 
1915, Prof. E. W. D. Holway, no. 170 (rypr, in Gray Herb.); Depart. 
Guatemala, alt. 1525 m., J. D. Smith, no. 2373; on the volcano of 
Tecuamburro, Depart. Santa Rosa, alt. 2135 m., Heyde & Lux, no- 
4515 (distrib. of J. D. Smith). 
Var. ophryolepis, var. nov., pedicellis dense cum glandulis meee 
