—,) 
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9. V. Hemsleyana, nom. nov. Herbaceous perennial, 1.6 m. 
high or less, the stems few, simple or branched in inflorescence, 
somewhat harshly tuberculate-strigillose or strigose. Leaves op- 
posite below or nearly throughout, oblong-lanceolate or ovate, acu- 
minate at both ends, serrate, 3-nerved and reticulate beneath, 
above green, tuberculate-strigillose and strigose, beneath very 
densely and canescently hispidulous-puberulous, along the veins 
hispid-pilose or strigose, 4.5-9.7 em. long, 1.3-3.5 cm. wide; 
petioles 2-4 mm. long. Heads few (1-5), 3-6 cm. wide, on often 
very long axillary and terminal peduncles; disk 11-17 mm. high, 
12-20 mm. wide. Involucre 4-5-seriate, 12-16 mm. high, the 
phyllaries blackish-green, the three outermost series oblong or 
oblong-obovate or -spatulate, more or less indurated, ribbed, and 
nearly glabrous below, above strongly hispid-pilose-ciliate, with 
herbaceous obtuse or acutish mucronulate usually strigose apex; 
inner two series much longer, obovate or obovate-spatulate, cilio- 
late and subsparsely strigillose, with ampliated rounded submem- 
branous often purplish apex; all tending to be rather loose at tip. 
Rays 14-16, 1.2-2.9 em. long, 5-7 mm. wide; disk-corollas hispi- 
dulous especially below, 4.8—(fruit)7.5 mm. long (tube 0.9-2 mm.). 
Pales stiffly short-pointed or acuminate, hispidulous along back, 
often with two teeth below apex, 6-8 mm. long. Achenes 
glabrous, 3.5mm. long. Pappus none. — Gymnolomia Ghiesbreghtii 
Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. ii. 162 (1881); Rob. & Greenm. 
Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xxix. 101 (1899). Not V. Ghiesbreghtii 
Gray (1883), which is a variety of V. flava (Hemsl.) Blake (see no. 
2).— MEXICO: Micwoacan: mountains near Morelia, Ghies- 
breght 382 (G.); wooded hills near Patzcuaro, 10 Nov. 1890, 
Pringle 3339 (G.); (Oaxaca) hills near Oaxaca City, 1830-2135 m., 
Aug.—Sept. 1894, (G.); Valley of Oaxaca, 1675-2285 
m., 20 Sept. 1894, Z. W. Nelson 1464 (G.); 30 km. 8. W. of City of 
Oaxaca, 2285-2900 m., 10-20 Sept. 1894, E. W. Nelson 1371 (G.); 
La Carbonera, 2135 m., 20 Sept. 1895, L. C. Smith 799 (G.); Cerro 
de San Felipe, 1900 m., 26 Sept. 1897, Conzatti & Gonzdlez 553 
(G.); without definite locality, July-Aug. 1900, Conzatti & Gon- 
zdlez 53 (G.). —It has seemed best to change the name of this 
Species to prevent confusion with V. Ghiesbreghtii Gray (1883), a 
name which has been in use for more than a generation for a species 
here reduced to V. flava (Hemsl.) Blake (see p. 47).—T. 2. Fia. 1. 
