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lanceolate to oblong-obovate, 2 to 5. cm. long, 0.5 to 2 cm. broad, acute, 
dentate to subentire, green above, slightly paler beneath: heads 10 to 12 
mam. high, including the rays 8 to 4 em. in diameter, terminating the stem 
aud branches on long mostly naked peduncles : involucre narrowly cam- 
na 
us 
panulate, 2~3-seriate ; the outer involucral bracts herbaceous, lanceolate, _ 
acute, usually exceeding the inner; the inner bracts of the involucre 
oblong, ciliate, often purplish: ray-flowers commonly 6, neutral; rays, 
including the short tube, 12 to 18 mm. long, 5 to 9 mm. broad, dark 
purple: disk-flowers about 20; pappus lacerate-coroniform with an 
occasional short awn on the inner angle of the achene, persistent: mature 
achenes slightly obovate, 3 to 4 mm. long, hirsute-pubescent with 
upwardly subappressed hairs. — Mexico. State of Chiapas: Valley of 
State of Durango: 13 August, 1897, Dr. J. N. 
Rose, no. 2260 (hb. Gr., and hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; also same 
locality and date, Dr. J. W. Rose, no, 2245 in part (hb. Gr. and hb. 
U. S. Nat. Mus.). 
_ The species here proposed is related to Aspilia purpurea, Greenman, 
from which, however, it is readily separated by the longer leaves, and the 
Spreading pubescence on the stem. ; 
Viguiera morelensis, n. 
appressed hirsute-hispid, also 
alternate, lanceolate, 3 to 
sp. Stem erect, branched above, upwardly 
finely puberulent, reddish-brown: leaves 
7 cm. long, 1 to 2.5 em. broad, acuminate, 
Sega “ revolute-margined, narrowed below into a 
subpetiolate base, S-nerved, appressed-hirsute and somewhat rugose 
_ above, hirsute-pubescent beneath especially on the conspicuously 
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