198 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
Mikania ternata (Vell.), comb. nov. Cacalia ternata Vell. Fl. Flum. 
(text) 336 (1825), viii. t. 56 (1827). Mikania dentata Spreng. Syst, 
iii. 422 (1826) presumably, but scarcely of Schlecht. Linnaea, xi. 12 
(1837), which notwithstanding the sign of affirmation employed by 
Schlechtendal can from character hardly have related to the plant 
described by Sprengel. MM. apiifolia DC. Prod. v. 202 (1836). 
Kanimia corymbiifolia, sp. nov., herbacea perennis erecta rigi- 
dula glaberrima 6-7 dm. alta usque ad inflorescentiam corymbosam 
simplici, internodiis infimis brevibus (2-15 mm. solum longis), supre- 
mis usque ad 6 cm. longitudine ; foliis oppositis erectis appressis linear- 
ibus crassiusculis rigidulis integerrimis 3-nerviis obtusis sessilibus 4-7 
em. longis 1-3 mm. latis superioribus gradatim minoribus ; inflorescentia 
trichotoma 3-11 cm. lata planiuscula 4—20-capitulata ; bracteis anguste 
linearibus plus minusve alternis 8-12 mm. longis; capitulis (quoque 
cum bracteola unica arcte suffulto) 1.3 cm. altis 4-floris erectis ; involucri 
squamis ovato-oblongis crassiusculis acutiusculis 2-3 mm. latis ; cor- 
ollis 7 mm. longis, tubo gracili 3 mm. longo, faucibus brevissimis, 
limbi dentibus lineari-oblongis ; achaeniis immaturis 4.5 mm. longis 
summa parte 10-costato-angulatis; pappi setis ca’ 44 rufis 6 mm. 
longis scabridis. — Moist meadows near a brook in the Serradio near 
Cuyabé, Mattogrosso, Brazil, February, 1889, R. Pilger, no. 220 of Dr. 
Gray Herbarium. A species markedly distinct in habit from its con- 
geners, resembling in its thickish firm ribbed narrow leaves some spe- 
cies of the African genus Corymbium. 
Kanimia violascens, sp. nov., scandens ubique a hirsutia densa 
sordida violascenti tecta; caule flexuoso torto multi-angulato, inter- 
nodiis 6-9 em. longis; foliis oppositis petiolatis ovalibus grosse cre- 
natis profunde cum sinu angusto cordatis ca. 4 cm. longis ca. 3.5 cm. 
latis apice rotundatis crassiusculis bullato-rugosis ; petiolo 1.5-2 cm. 
longo ; corymbis trichotomis axillaribus erectis ad 2 cm. longe pedunca- 
latis cum bracteis foliaceis suborbicularibus munitis ; bracteolis parvis 
ovalibus ; pedicellis 4-8 mm. longis ; capitulis 1.2-1.5 em. altis 4-floris ; 
involucri squamis oblongis apicem versus carinatis plus minusve at- 
tenuatis sordide villoso-tomentosis ca. 9 mm. longis ; corollis 7 mm. 
longis, tubo gracili glabro 4 mm. longo, faucibus campanulatis glabris ; 
dentibus limbi 5 deltoidei tiusculis apicem versus hispidulis ; achae- 
niis 5.5 mm. longis nigris basin versus decrescentibus, costis pleramque 
7-8 (rariter in eodem capitulo achaenio uno vel altero 5-costato) albidis 
minutissime scabridis, pappi setis ca. 75 rufidulis corollam aequanti- 
bus; styli ramis gracillimis filiformibus longe exsertis et recurvatis 
