106 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
55. V. BranpDEGEI Blake. Herbaceous, erect, cymose-panicu- 
lately branched at apex of stem and of the few branches into 6- 
10-headed panicles. Stem slender, purplish, hispidulous. Leaves 
opposite (alternate in inflorescence), ovate, acuminate, rounded 
or subcordate at base, regularly serrulate, dull green above, slightly 
paler beneath, above tuberculate-hispid and slightly glandular, 
beneath hispid-pilose, 2.3-2.8 em. long, 1.1-1.4 em. wide, on hispi- 
dulous scarcely margined petioles 3.5 mm. long. Pedicels 1-12 mm. 
long, hispidulous; heads only 9 mm. wide; disk 5.5-6 mm. high, 
3-4 mm. wide. Involucre 2-seriate, 3.5 mm. high, graduated, the 
phyllaries lanceolate, subacute, callous-unguiculate, strigillose, 
3-ribbed and vittate, pale below, the short apex subherbaceous, 
lance-deltoid, the inner series subtending the rays. Rays 5, oval, 
3-3.5 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide, hardly surpassing the disk; disk- 
corollas about 12, strigillose especially below and on the teeth, 
4mm. long (tube 0.7 mm.). Pales acute, black-lineate, hispidulous 
on back, 4.5 mm. long. Achenes silky-villous, 1.5 mm. long. 
Awns 2, lanceolate, scarious, about 2 mm. long; squamellae about 
4, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, irregularly lacerate, about 1 mm. 
long; whole pappus somewhat deciduous. — Blake, Proc. Am. 
Acad. li. 519 (1916). Aspilia hispida Brandegee! Univ. Calif. 
Publ. Bot. iv. 94 (1910). Not V. hispida Baker (1884). — MEX- 
ICO: Pursia: Coxcatlan, 2440-2745 m., Sept. 1909, Purpus 4126 
_ (Type coi: B. M., G.). — T. 3. Fie. 7. 
56. V. anomala, sp. nov. Herbacea ? ramis et caule juventate 
sordide pilosis pilis laxe patentibus, foliis oppositis ovatis basi late 
rotundatis, in petiolis 1.3-2.6 cm. longis insidentibus, capitulis 
in paniculis 20-40-cephalis trichotomis laxis terminalibus disp0- 
sitis, involucro sordide rufescenti-piloso, acheniis glabris papposis. 
Herbaceous ?, the stem and branches slender, in age grayish, 
subglabrate, in youth purplish-brown, like the inflorescence s0I- 
didly pilose with lax hairs. Leaves mostly opposite, ovate, 
acuminate, broadly rounded at base, regularly crenate-serrulate 
(teeth about 18 pairs, cuspidate), 5-nerved, somewhat harshly 
strigose, the hairs tuberculate at base, 6-8.5 cm. long, 2.5-5 em. 
wide; petioles slender, unmargined, sordidly pubescent, 1.3-2.6 em. 
long. Heads 20-40, in trichotomous terminal lax panicles, about 
1.5 cm. broad; peduncles very slender, 2-4 em. long; disk 8 m™- 
high, 46.5 mm. thick. Involucre 2-seriate, 3.5 mm. high, the 
