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alt. 1900m., 14 November, 1897, Conzatti & Gonzélez, no. 563 — 
(hb. Gray). This species appears to be most nearly related to 
V. Karvinskiana DC. and V. jaliscana Gleason. It is distinguished 
from both by its somewhat larger and considerably more numerously 
flowered heads, as well as by the tomentose pubescence on the stem 
and lower surface of the leaves. ne 
Elephantopus micropappus Klatt, Jahrb. Hamburg. wissensch. An- 
stalt. ix. pt. 2, p. 124 (1892). Dr, Klatt’s memorandum regarding this 
plant was grounded upon Ule’s no. 1184, collected “in campo bei 
Laguna [Brazil] Marz 1889.” The specimen examined and labelled — 
by Dr. Klatt and now preserved in the Gray Herbarium has noth- 
ing whatever to do with #&. micropappus Less. but is GoMPHRENA 
PERENNIS L. 
Phania Curtissii, n. sp., suffruticosa oppositiramea tomentella; 
caulibus teretibus obscure striatulis ; foliis oppositis graciliter petio- 
latis late ovatis supra puberulis subtus paulo pallidioribus tomentellis 
puncticulatis, caulinis late cordatis 1.5-2.2 cm. longis et latis grosse 
crenato-lobatis vel subtripartitis, petiolo ca. 1 cm. longo, foliis rameali- 
bus multo minoribus basi obtusis vel raro acutiusculis nec cordatis 
7-15 mm. longis 5-12 mm. latis, petiolo 3-4 mm. longo; capitulis 
parvis graciliter pedicellatis numerosis cymosis ca. 25-floris ; involuett 
squamis oblanceolati-linearibus acutis viridibus ca. 3 mm. longis sub- 
aequalibus ; corollis albis ; achaeniis nigris glabris deorsum decrescenti- 
bus 5-angulatis lucidis; pappi squamellis 5 saepissime 3-5-fidis 
ciliolatis dorso granuliferis. — Near Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, West 
Indies, 17 December, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, no. 239-(type, in hb. Gray). 
This species most nearly approaches P. matricarioides (Spreng.) Grised, 
but may be readily distinguished by the very different form of 1s 
leaves, which in most cases are fully as wide as long and on the maim 
stems are cordate. 
Stevia Bertanprert Gray. In this species, now known from several 
states of northern Mexico, it is easy to remark certain rather striking 
differences of pubescence and glandularity, though these do not see to 
be correlated with other distinctions of importance. In the typical form, 
occurring in Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, the branchlets, meee 
and petioles are minutely and often sparingly glandular-pulveral : 
rather than pubescent, and the involucral scales are rather conspleu- 
ously covered with sessile globular aureous atoms. From this very 
constant typical form the following varieties are easily distingaishot 
Var. podadenia, n. var., ramulis et foliis et petiolis laxe omsPel 
griseo-pubescentibus ; involucri squamis cum glandulis stipitabs ce 
pidulis. — 8, Berlandieri Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Am. Bot. ii. 84 (1881) 
