136 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
84. V. truxillensis (HBK.), comb. nov. Herbaceous, branched, 
erect, the stem sparsely ascending-hispid. Leaves alternate, nar- 
row-oblong or lance-oblong, acute, rounded at base, entire, reticu- 
late-venose, 3-nerved, above densely beneath sparsely tuberculate- 
strigillose, scarcely paler beneath, 4.5 em. long, 1.3-1.5 em. wide, 
on petioles 1.5 mm. long. Heads terminating branchlets, the 
monocephalous peduncles 7.5-12.5 em. long, sulcate, densely 
hispid below the head; disk 0.8-1.2 em. high. Involucre 3-4- 
seriate, 8-9 mm. high, slightly graduated, the phyllaries lanceolate, 
acute, the outer greenish, densely tuberculate-hispidulous, not 
ribbed, the inner subscarious, subglabrate, mucronate, vittate. 
Rays “12-15,” linear-oblong, 15 mm. long, 3 mm. wide; disk- 
corollas pubescent below, 5 mm. long. Pales acuminate, sparsely 
hispidulous on back. Achenes not seen; ovary “ glabrous.” 
Awns persistent like the small lacerate squamellae. — Helianthus 
truxillensis HBK.! Nov. Gen. iv. 223 (1820). Harpalium 
truxillense (HBK.) Cass. Dict.-Sci. Nat. xxv. 438 (1822). — PERU: 
near the sea, Truxillo, Humboldt & Bonpland (typE: Par., 
drawing G.).—I am unable to identify any recent collections with 
this species, the type of which I examined at the Paris Herbarium 
in 1914. 
sometimes sparsely strigillose. Middle and upper leaves alternate, 
: oblong, sometimes Ovate-oblong or even oval-oblong, rather 
abruptly acute and mucronate at apex, rounded or rounded-cuneate 
o-seriate, graduated, 12-14 mm. high, the phyllaries oblong or the 
outermost oblong-lanceolate, acutish or the inner obtuse, callous- 
