122 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
Gay, Fl. Chil. iv. 290 (1849); Reiche, FI. Chil. iv. 93 (19085). 
Helianthus corymbosus Poepp.! ex DC. 1. ¢., as syn. (1836). H. 
Cumingit H. & A.! Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 315 (1841), as syn. Vigui- 
era Poeppigit Gray! Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 6 (1883). Helcanthus 
araucanus Phil. Anal. Univ. Chil. xc. 39 (1895), fide Reiche, l. ¢. 
Flourensia corymbosa var. lanceolata (Meyen) Reiche, |. ¢. 93 
(1905); var. araucana (Phil.) Reiche, 1. c. 94 (1905). Vigusera 
corymbosa (DC.) Blake, Proc. Am. Acad. xlix. 349, footnote (1918). 
— CHILE: Cordillera de Santiago, R. A. Philippi (drawing, G.); 
Rio Claro Inferior, Feb. 1896, F. Philippi (B. M.); Colchagua, 
Bridges (K.); Taleareque, 1870, E. C. Reed (K.); Valle de Yeso, 
E. C. Reed (K.); Cordiliéres de Maule, 1855, Germain (B. M., G., 
K.); Maule Province, 1831, Cuming 849 (rypE of H. Cumingi: 
K.); Bafios de Cauquenes, Dec. 1901, Elwes (K.); Cordillera de 
Linares, Philippi (Ber.); stony fields near Antuco, Jan., Poeppig 
III. 222 (rypx cout. of F. corymbosa: Ber., Prod.); without defi- 
nite locality, Meyen (types of H. lanceolatus and H. revolutus: 
Ber.), C. Gay (G., K.), Bridges 1165 (K.), Oct. 1871, E. C. Reed 
15 (G.). ARGENTINA: Mendoza, Gillies 72 (B. M.), 81 in part 
(B. M.). — Local name “yerba buena”; also, according to Reiche, 
“boton de oro del monte.’”’ — T. 2. Fia. 15. 
Series C. Grandiflorae, ser. nov. Herbae perennes, capitulis 
solitariis vel paucis magnis vel majusculis saepissime longe pedun- 
culatis ramos et caulem terminantibus, involucri 2—4-seriati subae- 
qualis phyllariis lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis parum induratis, 
foliis paucis saepe ovalibus vel oblongis inferioribus oppositis 
minoribus infimis valde reductis superioribus magnis alternis. — 
Species typica V. grandiflora Gardn. — Herbaceous perennials of 
Brazil and Paraguay, with two outlying species in Peru; heads 
medium or large, long-peduncled; lower leaves opposite, the lowest 
reduced and often scalelike, subremote, thickened and strongly 
venose, 5—7-nerved, the middle and upper thinner, much large; 
and alternate. Species 72-82. 
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b. Leaves Sb. Upete™ peered es tae 79. V.obtusifolia. 
80. V. discolor. 
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