70 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
pressed-triangular, obtuse), 3-nerved, above dull green, softly 
appressed-pilose and gland-dotted, beneath paler, densely pilosu- 
lous with very short spreading hairs and gland-dotted, 4-9.3 cm. 
long, 1.3-3 em. wide; petioles scarcely margined, pubescent like 
the leaves, 6-13 mm. long. Heads few, about 5 cm. wide, on mono- 
cephalous rather densely pilose peduncles 3-11 cm. long, terminal 
and axillary; disk 1.3—(fruit)1.8 em. high, 2—(fruit)2.8 em. thick. 
Involucre 2-seriate, subequal, 10.5 mm. high, the phyllaries nar- 
rowly oblong, subobtuse to subacute, pilosulous, subindurated and 
costate to middle, herbaceous above and slightly broader, appressed 
or loose at apex. Rays about 16, yellow, oblong, emarginate or 
bidenticulate, minutely puberulous on back, 1.6-2.3 cm. long, 
7-8.5 mm. wide; disk-corollas yellowish, puberulous below and 
on veins and teeth, the tube scarcely distinct, the throat ampliated 
at its base, 6.5 mm. long (tube about 0.4 mm. long). Pales nar- 
rowed above, subacute, tuberculate-strigillose at apex, 1.2 cm. 
long. Achenes black, subsparsely appressed-pubescent, thickened, 
4 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide. Awns 2, ciliolate, subequal, slightly 
widened below, 3 mm. long; squamellae about 8, fimbriate, con- 
nate below, the marginal longer, 1 mm. long. — GUATEMALA: 
Retalhuleu, Dec. 1875, Bernoulli & Cario 1520 (rrp: K., fragm. 
G.).— Strongly suggesting Simsia grandiflora Benth. in ap- 
pearance. 
25. V. GRAMMATOGLOsSA DC. Plant 1.6-5 m. high, with her- 
baceous branches, densely often canescently hispid-pilose with 
slightly tuberculate-based hairs. Leaves opposite throughout or 
alternate above, ovate, acute to acuminate, at base cordate to 
rounded or the uppermost cuneate, rather obscurely appressed- 
serrate, above green or greenish, densely pilosulous with incurved 
somewhat tuberculate-based hairs, beneath densely appressed-- 
sericeous, glandular between the scarcely enlarged bases of the 
hairs, 4.4-8 cm. long, 2.2-5 em. wide; petioles hispid-pilose, 
1-2.2 cm. long. Heads in cymose panicles of 2-8 on axillary and 
terminal branches, 2.8-5 cm. wide, on peduncles 1.8-21 cm. long; 
disk 1—1.4 em. high, 1.5-2.1 em. thick. Involucre 3-seriate, grad- 
uated, 8-10.5 mm. high, the phyllaries linear-oblong to narrowly 
lance-oblong, the outer sometimes narrowly ovate-oblong, obtuse 
(outer) to acute, somewhat indurated and ribbed below, with 
mostly longer herbaceous tip, somewhat 3-nerved above, densely 
