16 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
culate below, above dull green, somewhat harshly and very densely 
tuberculate-hispidulous and strigose-pilose, beneath dully cinereous 
and densely hispidulous-pilosulous, gland-dotted between the hairs, 
2.7-4.4 cm. long, 24 em. wide, those of inflorescence smaller; peti- 
oles tuberculate-hispid-pilose, 2-5 mm. long. Heads 1.8-2.4 em. 
wide, leafy-bracted at base (bracts 6-11 mm. long), on hispidulous 
and more or less hispid-pilose monocephalous peduncles 2—12.5 em. 
long, naked or few-bracted; disk 7—(fruit) 12 mm. high, 9-(fruit) 
17 mm. wide. Involucre (excluding the outermost foliaceous 
bracts) about 4-seriate, scarcely graduated, the outer 1-2 series 
herbaceous above the constricted base, obovate, obtusish, reticu- 
late and pubescent like the leaves, the inner shorter, slightly 
graduated, oblong, obtuse, chartaceo-coriaceous, mucronulate, 
puberulous toward apex. Rays about 11, oblong, gland-dotted 
and sparsely pilose on back, 6-8 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; disk- 
corollas sparsely pubescent on the teeth, 3.5 mm. long (tube 
1 mm.). Pales indurated, narrowly keeled, sparsely pubescent 
toward the acute apex, 6.5 mm. long. Achenes rather strongly 
compressed, blackish, glabrous, 4.5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide (in- 
cluding the broadish chartaceous-crustaceous sparsely ciliolate 
wing), 1-2-nerved on the sides, the nerves sometimes produced 
into teeth and narrowly wing-margined, strongly 2-awned, the 
awns continuous with the wings, ciliate on edges and back, unequal, - 
1-2.5 mm. long, sometimes with a pair of ear-like ciliate lobes at 
base. — Oyedea lippioides Baker! in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 3, 208 
(1884).— Braz: Minas Gerars: Pohl 571 (corypes: K); SAO 
PaULo: near Jundiahy, Burchell 4900 (corypr: K, fragm. G). : 
Cuur.: hb. Ferreira, ex Escola Polytechnica of Lisbon, 1874 (K)- 
Ill. NEW AND NOTEWORTHY COMPOSITAE, 
CHIEFLY MEXICAN. 
By 8. F. Buaxe. 
lp Sete sik. EREMosis (DC.) B. & H. Gen. Pl. ii. ao 
(1836) = cas — Monosis DC. sect. Eremosis DC. Prod. v. 7 : 
Brainces Gs c sect. Trianthaea DC. 1. c. 23 (1836), in part 
In hie revisit Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. iv. 227 (1906). 
raised DeC ~ “ee North American Vernonieae in 1906 GleasoD — 
andolle’s section Eremosis of Monosis, which has bee? 




