6 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
lata. Receptaculum convexum apice excepto paleaceum, paleis ex- 
terioribus (eis flor. fem.) squamis involucri similibus sed minoribus 
introrsum sensim reductis; intimis scariosis lanceolatis acumi- 
natis ciliatis floribus multo brevioribus. Flor. fem. 10-11, hermaph. 
10-11 (in capitulo altero flor. fem. 10, hermaph. 11, altero flor. 
fem. 11, hermaph. 10). Flor. fem.: ovarium ovale apice sparse 
pilosum 1.2mm. longum; corolla tubulosa bilobata apice sparse 
pilosa nectario conspicuo annulari praedita 1.7 mm. longa. Flor. 
hermaph.: ovarium oblongo-obovoideum supra longe pilosum 0.7 
mm. longum; corolla 5-dentata supra pilosa clavato-tubulosa 2.7 
mm. longa basi nectario annulari praedita; antherae basi sagittatae 
apice appendice ovali-ovata obtusa munitae; stylus indivisus 
supra medium plus minusve hirtus. —Ecuapor: Tungaragua, 
1857-1859, Spruce 5826 (rypn couu.: Brit. Mus., Kew, Gray 
Herb.). — Long ago referred to Clibadium by Bentham (Gen. 
Pl. ii. 346), who considered it transitional to Ichthyothere, as a new 
species of which genus it was originally distributed. It has how- 
ever no special affinity with this genus. Clibadium Sprucei belongs 
to the section Euclibadium, where its nearest ally is the (from 
description) clearly distinct C. subsessilifolium Hieron. of Ecuador. 

Only the two or three innermost florets of the disk are without : 
pales. 
C. Trianae (Hieron.), comb. nov.—Desmanthodium Trianae — 
Hieron.! Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. 52 (1894). — This species, the type 
of which, Triana 1317, from Colombia, is represented in both the — 
British Museum and Kew Herbarium and by a fragment in the 4 
Gray Herbarium, is so clearly a Clibadium both in habit and tech- — 
nical characters that it is difficult to understand how it could have — 
been referred to Desmanthodium by Hieronymus. The small — 
heads densely aggregated in ternately arranged glomerules place — 
it between C. subsessilifolium Hieron. and C. glomeratum Greenm., — 
from both of which it is (from description) very distinct. The — 
female florets seem to be always 5; the hermaphrodite may be — 
either 6 or 7 in number. 
C 
. um, sp.nov. Frutexramosus sect. Euclibadii. Caulis — 
teres dense patenter hispidus et hispidulus pilis deorsum demum — 
deciduis basibus tuberculatis persistentibus. Folia opposita ovat® 
vel Suprema ovato-lanceolata acuminata basi acute cuneate trinet- 
via e basi serrata (dentibus acute mucronatis ca. 21-26-jugis sub- 

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