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alternate, ovate or oval-ovate, sessile, acute, at base broadly 
rounded, crenate-serrate (teeth about 13 pairs, deltoid, depressed, 
scarcely mucronate), green both sides, 5-nerved, tuberculate- 
hispidulous with incurved hairs and gland-dotted, along veins 
sparsely tuberculate-hispid, the lower 6.5-10 cm. long, 2.2-5 em. 
wide, the uppermost smaller. Peduncle 2.1 dm. long, densely 
tuk late-glandular-hispidul below the head and _ sparsely 
hispid; head 8.2 em. wide; disk 1.8 cm. high, 3.5 em. wide. In- 
volucre 3-seriate, slightly graduated, 2.3 em. high, the phyllaries 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, appressed, herbaceous, at base 
slightly costate, 3-5-nerved, densely and minutely tuberculate. 
Rays about 24, yellow, oblong, bidenticulate, glandular on back, 
3.3 cm. long, 5.5-7 mm. wide; disk-corollas yellow, glandular- 
tuberculate, 6.3 mm. long (tube 1.3 mm.). Pales narrow, acumi- 
nate, subdensely tuberculate, striate-lineate, 1-1.2 cm. long. 
Achenes (immature) oblong, appressed-pilose, 8 mm. long. Awns 
2, paleaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, unequal, 2—2.8 mm. 
long; squamellae 1.6 mm. long, denticulate-fimbriate, united to 
apex on each side of achene, but free from the awns. — V. grandi- 
flora Chod.! Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. 2. ii. 392 (1902), not Gardn. 
(err. iden.).— PARAGUAY: Campo Apépu, near the River 
Tapiraguay, Sierra de Maracayi, Aug. 1898-99, Hassler 4367 
(TYPE COLL.: B. M., G., K.). — T. 3. Fra. 11. 
78. V. macropoda, sp. nov. Herbacea simplex vel parce ramosa 
monocephala, caule glabriusculo vel sparse pubescente, foliis 
paucis remotis inferioribus oppositis late ovatis saepe reductis 
integris vel subdentatis supra crispe pilosis et puberulis subtus in 
margine et ad venas laxe pilosis, superioribus alternis oblongo- 
ovatis vel lanceolatis, involucri 3-seriati 1.5 cm. lati phyllariis. 
oblongo-lanceolatis dorso puberulis margine dense piloso-ciliatis, 
radiis ca. 20, corollis disci 5.5 mm. longis. 
Plant probably about 0.6-1 m. high, the stem subglabrous or 
sparsely pubescent. Leaves few and remote, the lower opposite, 
often reduced, broadly ovate, 3-5-nerved, acute, sessile, wi 
broad subamplexicaul base, entire or subdentate, above puberulous: 
and crisply pilose, beneath on margin and along. veins loosely 
pilose, 4-8 em. long, 2-3.2 cm. wide ; the upper often alternate, 
oblong-ovate or lanceolate. Peduncle more or less pubescent, 
1.7-3.3 dm. long; disk 1.5-2 em. high, 2.5-3.5 em. thick. In- 

