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ee. Leaves narrowed to base, not clasping, ff. 
ff. ee a ate or ovate-lanceolate, long- 
Cuma fo as eee 91. V. lanceolata. 
ff. Leaves Saas or ashen anes or lanceolate, 
merely acute, 
gg. Involucre 8-9 high, 3-4-seriate; 
phyllaries has cantaiet Peru See - V. truzillensis. 
gg. Involucre 12-— mm 4-5-seria 
phy —— pees or obbeiacianaselnte: 
cuador, h 
hh. daveiiors: 4-seriate, 14-16 mm. high.. .83. V. chimboensis. 
olucre 5-seriate, 12-14 mm. high........ 85. V. aurea. 
i. coer dmc A ovate, "merely pom or short- 
umina 
it. lnvebaare 13-13 mm. high; achenes nearly 
Or quite GiADTOUR | ee a oe es V. Lehmannii. 
a. Involucre 6-9 mm. high; i sparsely 
but distinctly pubescen +; 3 
jj. Leaves not veconnatetleaiabe: phylistice 
strongly spreading or reflexed; sq 
mellae lanceolate, deeply lacerate, k 
free or slightly unmited............... 87. V. media. 
jj. — more or less venose-reticulate be- 
ath; phyllaries sbi slightly spread- 
mie squamellae narr a nely 
fimbriate, often united te WpeE co. 88. V. Brittonii. 
83. V. cHIMBOENSIS Hieron. Frutescent, 1-2 m. high, bearing 
3-4 heads, branched, the stem leafy, pilose, at length subglabrate, 
the thickened bases of the hairs persistent. Leaves alternate, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, mucronate, cuneate at base, entire, 3- 
nerved, venose, tuberculate-strigillose and scabrous above, beneath 
pale, subcanescent, somewhat harshly pilose and more or less 
glandular, 5-6.5 cm. long, 1.5-1.8 em. wide, on petioles 2 mm. long. 
Peduncles 7-20 em. long, terminating branchlets, monocephalous; 
heads 3.5 em. wide; disk 1-(fruit) 1.8 em. high, 1.2-(fruit) 2.2 cm. 
in diameter. Eavoluere 4-seriate, graduated, 1.4-1.6 cm. high, the 
phyllaries oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, loose at apex, in- 
tuberculate-pilose especially above, the innermost thinner in 
texture. Rays about 12, narrowly oblong, 1.5—‘ 2.5” cm. long; 
disk-corollas appressed-puberulous below, 5.5 mm. long (tube 
1mm.). Pales subacuminate, sparsely puberulous near tip, 8 mm. 
long. Achenes sparsely appressed-pubescent, 44.5 mm. long. 
Awns very unequal, 2-3.2 mm. long; squamellae about 8, free, 
lacerate, 0.5-0.7 mm. long. — Hieron.! Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 38 (1900). 
— ECUADOR: dry hills near San Miguel de Chimbo, Sodiro 
33/1 (Type: Ber., photog. and fragm. G.). 
