130 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
Heads 5-6, terminal and from the upper axils, about 6 cm. wide, on 
peduncles 1.5-3 dm. long. Involucre campanulate, 1.8-2 cm. wide, 
2-3-seriate, the phyllaries slightly graduated, lanceolate, acute, 
appressed, densely pilose, 8 mm. long. Rays about 10, oval- 
oblong, pilose on back, about 2.5 cm. long, 8 mm. wide. Achenes 
glabrous except for the ciliate margins, compressed, 4-5 mm. long. 
wns 2, acuminate, 2mm. long; squamellae about 4 pairs, united 
at base, about 1 mm. long. — Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 3. 
228. t. 68 (1884). — BRAZIL: Minas Gerazs: fields near Caldas, 
Sept. 1864, Regnell III. 771 in part (Type couu.: tracing, G. [ex hb. 
Stockholm]); Uberava, Sept. 1848, Regnell III. 771 in part (TYPE 
COLL.: tracing, G. [ex hb. Stockholm]).— Not seen; description 
compiled from Baker, with the assistance of some tracings kindly 
sent by Dr. C. A. Lindman from the originals in the Royal Her- 
barium at Stockholm. 
81. V. Bakeriana, sp. nov. Perennis erecta pluricaulis, caulibus 
simplicibus vel ramosis tuberculato-hispido-pilosis interdum solum 
strigosis, foliis paucis subremotis infimis oppositis valde reductis 
mediis oppositis vel alternis superioribus alternis oblongis ad 
lanceolato-oblongis saepe serratis valde reticulato-venulosis strigil- 
losis vel strigosis rare pilosis, capitulis paucis 3-5.5 cm. latis, 
involucri 3-sub-4-seriati 9-11 mm. alti phyllariis dense tuber- 
culato-strigillosis, radiis ca. 14, corollis disci 4.5 mm. longis. 
Plant 4-6 dm. high, from a thick woody root; stems several, 
simple below the inflorescence or branched even from the base, 
striate, generally rather densely tuberculate-hispid-pilose with 
mostly spreading hairs, occasionally merely strigose. Leaves few, 
subremote, the 2-4 lowest pairs very much reduced, the middle 
opposite or alternate, the upper alternate, oblong to ovate- oF 
lance-oblong or oblong-oval, acute to acuminate, rarely obtusish, 
at base rounded or rounded-cuneate, subsessile or barely petioled, 
subentire or generally crenate-serrate or sharply serrate (mostly 
above the middle), about equally green both sides, above strongly 
reticulate-venulose, from harshly strigillose to strigose or rarely 
rather softly pilose, beneath venulose-reticulate, 3(—5)-nerved, 
rather softly hispid-pilose, the hairs longer along the veins, and 
more or less gland-dotted, 5-8.5 em. long, 1.5-3.2 em. wide; 
petioles tuberculate-hispid-pilose, 1 mm. long or less. Heads 1-4, 
terminal and axillary, 3-5.5 em. wide, on naked or bracteate 
