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2, 372 (excl. syn. Carphephorus coridifolius DC., which is clearly dis- 
tinct). ikania ericoides Mart. ex Bak. 1. c. (1876). 
Brickellia coridifolia (DC.), comb. nov. Carphephorus coridi- 
Jolius DC. Prod. vii. 267 (1838). This species, resting solely upon 
the original material collected on the Serro do Frio, Minas Geraés, 
Brazil, in 1833, Vautier, no. 314, was placed by DeCandolle in the 
genus Carphephorus doubtless because he found the receptacle chaffy 
at least to some extent. Dissection of a head from a cotype in the 
Gray Herbarium shows the receptacle to be chiefly free from chaff. 
At only one point two narrow scales, like the inner ones of the invo- 
lucre, were crowded in among the flowers, and formed, as it were, a sort of 
re-entrant part of the involucre. In all other respects the plant agrees 
technically with Brickellia. Mr. J. G. Baker, in treating the Hupatorieae 
for the Flora Brasiliensis, doubtfully reduces the species to a synonym 
of Brickellia pinifolia (Gardn.) Gray —a species above reduced to 
B. brasiliensis (Spreng. ) Robinson — but the plant, when compared 
with B. brasiliensis is obviously distinct. The involucral scales for 
instance are very different, being in C. cordifolius nearly twice as long 
as in B. brasiliensis. They are furthermore much more attenuate, dis- 
tinetly 3-ribbed, and dorsally glandular-puberulent, while in B. brasili- 
ensis they are glabrous and minutely many-striate. In involucre the 
plant agrees much better with Brickellia than with the North Amer- 
ican genus Carphephorus. Moreover, the limb of the corolla is very 
short as in Brickellia instead of being rather deeply cleft as in Carphe- 
phorus. The affinities of the species appear to be with B. brasiliensis, 
though without doubt the plant is specifically distinct. The species 
being little known it seems worth while to put on record the traits 
brought out by recent examination. Capitulis 8-floris turbinato-cam- 
panulatis 1.2 em. altis ca. 1 cm. diametro; involucri squamis lanceo- 
latis vel anguste oblongis acutis dorso convexis tomentellis striatulis 
ca. 3-seriatis valde inaequalibus ; receptaculo parvo plano cum paleis 
paucissimis marginalibus irregulariter munito; pappi setis ca. 30 
barbellatis corollas aequantibus; corollis 7-8 mm. longis vix sursum 
ampliatis, dentibus limbi 5, 0.5 mm. longis ; styli ramis clavellatis ; 
antheris anguste oblongis vix connatis apice breviter et late appen- 
diculatis basi integris; achaeniis immaturis 2 mm. longis papillo- 
sis deorsum deerescentibus 5-costato-angulatis cum nerviis obscuris 
- Intermediis. 
- BRICKELLIA DiFFusa (Vahl) Gray, Pl. Wright. i. 86 (1852). Hupa- 
torum diffusum Vahl, Symb. Bot. iii. 94 (1794). To the synonymy of this 
species should be added Hupatorium trichosanthum A. Rich. Fl. Cub. 
Fanerog. ii. 41 (1853), the type of which was recently examined by 
