96 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
0.5-3.5 em. long. Heads in cymose panicles of 3-5 or more at ends 
of branches, 3.5 em. wide, on pedicels 6 cm. long or less; disk conie, 
7-13 mm. high, 9-12 mm. thick. Involucre 2-seriate, 4-7 mm. 
high, the phyllaries lanceolate or lance-ovate, with indurated pale 
vittate and ribbed body and shorter narrower loose or spreading 
herbaceous apex, sparsely strigose and strigillose. Rays about 12, 
oval, 5-10 mm. long, 2-5 mm. wide; disk-corollas puberulous 
especially below, 3 mm. long. Pales stiffly short-acuminate, more 
or less puberulous and gland-dotted, 4-5 mm. long. Achenes 
glabrous, 2 mm. long. Pappus none. — Zaluzania pinnatilobata 
Sch. Bip.! Flora xlvii. 219 (1864). Gymnolomia pinnatilobata (Sch. 
Bip.) B. & H. ex Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. ii. 163 (1881); 
Rob. & Greenm. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xxix. 90 (1899). — 
MEXICO: Pursia: Tehuacan, May 1842, Liebmann 384 (TYPE 
COLL.: drawing and fragm. G.); dry limestone hills, Tehuacan, 
1675 m., 20 Dec. 1895, Pringle 6252 (G.); San Luis Tultitlanapa, 
July 1908, Purpus 2515 (G.)y“Oxxaca: 9.6 km. above Domin- 
guillo, 1370-1675 m., 30 Oct. 1894, ZH. W. Nelson 1638 (G.). 
44. V. zaluzanioides, sp. nov. Fruticosa ramosa, caule et ramis 
canescenter pilosulo-tomentosis, foliis saepe alternis figura tt- 
angulari-ovatis obtusis vel acutis pinnatim ca. 5~7-lobatis, lobis 
deltoideis vel quadratis obtusis integris vel denticulatis, supra 
obscure viridibus subtus dense canescenterque pilosulo-tomentosis 
in petiolum marginatum abrupte contractis, capitulis cymoso- 
paniculatis. 
Frutescent, branched, the stem and branches densely and canes- 
cently pilosulous-tomentose, in age subglabrate. Leaves chiefly 
alternate, ovate or triangular-ovate in outline, blunt to subacute, 
at base subtruncate, passing into the margined petiole, pinnately 
about 5-7-lobed (the lobes quadrate or deltoid, blunt, entire or 
with 1-3 rounded teeth, the lowest pair hastately spreading), above 
dull green, densely and rather softly incurved-puberulous with 
gland-based hairs, beneath densely and softly canescent-pilosu- 
lous-tomentose, triplinerved and finely reticulate, 2-4.5 em. long, 
1.5-3 em. wide across the basal lobes, the lamina 6-10 mm. broad 
between the lobes; petioles margined, 7-15 mm. long; upper 
leaves gradually vediaed but retaining the same shape. Heads 
in cymose panicles of 3-6 at ends of branches, about 14 mm. wide; 
pedicles mostly naked, pubescent like stem, 3 em. long or less; 
