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to the base, into oblong blunt shortly 2-cleft lobes: corolla slightly ex- 
serted, the narrow galea pilose, the somewhat cleft saccate lower lip about 
1 mm. long. — Hipateo, damp alpine meadows at 3080 m, altitude, 
Sierra de Pachuca, July 21, 1901, and Aug. 22 1902 (C. G. Pringle, 
nos. 9674, 8666, Rose & Hay, no. 5581); Mt. Popocatapetl, alt. 
3630 m., Aug. 7 and 8, 1901 (Rose & Hay, no. 6022). A beautiful 
plant somewhat resembling C. Schaffneri, but with shorter stems, much 
larger red flowers, and densely pilose calyx. 
Utricularia lobata. Scapes 2 to 5 cm. high, bearing 1 or 2 lance- 
subulate bracts, 1-2-flowered; bladder-bearing branches very short, 
basal or wanting; the scattered bladders barely 1 mm. long: leaves 
wanting or solitary and radical, narrowly spatulate, 3-nerved, 1 to 1.3 
em. long: pedicels at most 1 mm. long, subtended by 3 or 4 slightly 
longer subulate bracts: calyx of 2 elliptic-oblong lobes 3 to 4 mm. long: 
corolla violet with yellow centre, the upper lip erect, slightly dilated and 
subtruncate above, 3 or 4 mm. long; lower lip 7 to 9 mm. long, deeply 
3-lobed, the middle lobe broad, more or less cut ; spur subulate, arcuate, 
equalling or slightly exceeding the lower lip: fruit not seen. — Mexico, 
springy soil, Sierra de las Cruces, alt. 3080 m., Sept. 2, 1901 (0. @. 
Pringle, no. 8607). Related to U. resupinata, B. D. Greene, but differ- 
ing among other characters in its deeply lobed lip. From U. verapazen- 
sis, Morong, distinguished by its narrower longer leaf, and its much 
shorter pedicels subtended by subulate, not blunt, bracts. 
Pectis erecta. Perennial, with a slender ligneous caudex: stems 
erect, simple or branching above, pulverulent, 8 to 15 cm. high: leaves 
linear, 1.5 to 3 cm. long, 1 to 2 mm. broad, pale green, firm, subulate- 
tipped, mostly ascending, with 2 to 4 irregular lines of pellucid dots 
beneath, and with 2 to 5 pairs of whitish cilia at base: peduncles fili- 
form, erect, 3.5 to 6 cm. long, with 2 to 5 lance-attenuate bracts: heads 
1 to 1.5 em. broad, several-flowered ; involucre turbinate, 5 to 6 mm. 
high, of 5 oblong or narrowly obovate blunt finely ciliate upwardly 
flattened bracts: rays oblong, 5 to 7 mm. long, yellow becoming 
crimson: ray-pappus of 2 or 3 elongate (4 or 5 mm. long) dark up- 
wardly barbed aristiform pales more or less connate at base, with 4 to 
8 much shorter unequal whitish attenuate pales: disk-pappus similar but 
the pales more numerous, the elongate dark ones 6 or 8: achenes 
slightly setulose.—Nricaracus, Grenada, Department of Grenada, 
Feb. 28, 1903 (0. F. Baker, no. 2556). In habit resembling Pectis 
diffusa, Hook. & Arn. of the § Pectothriz, but with the pappus more 
nearly of P. depressa, Fernald, of the § Hupectis. 
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