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mucronulate, blackish-green and subherbaceous except for the 
somewhat thickened and ribbed but not pale base (which is nearly 
glabrous), densely tuberculate-strigose, less so near apex. Rays 
14-25, oblong, 1.2-3.5 em. long; disk-corollas appressed-puberulous 
on veins, teeth, and below, 5.5 mm. long (tube 1.2 mm.). Pales 
acutish, glabrous or practically so, 8 mm. long. Achenes (sub- 
mature) appressed-silky-pilose, 3.5 mm. long. Awns slender, 
1.8-2.8 mm. long; squamellae about 8, truncate, equal, fimbriate, 
connate toward base, 0.8 mm. long. — Hieron. Bot. Jahrb. 
xxviii. 608 (1901). Helianthus aureus HBK.! Nov. Gen. iv. 224 
(1820). Harpalium aureum (HBK.) Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. xxv. 438 
(1822); DC. Prod. v. 584 (1836).— ECUADOR: in shrubby 
growth, Huataxi, Aug. 1859, Spruce 5974 (B. M., G., K.); Prov. 
Alausi, Jameson 15 (K.); Alausi, Bonpland 3225 (rypz: Par.); 
near Guaranda, May 1844, Jameson (K.); along streams, Guaranda, 
western slopes of Mt. Chimborazo, 2670 m., 8 July 1876, Ed. 
André (G.). — T. 2. Fic. 18. 
86. V. Lenmannut Hieron. Suffrutescent, up to 3 m. high, the 
branches weak and hanging. Stem pilose-hirsute and strigillose, 
the lepidote bases of the hairs persistent. Leaves alternate, ovate, 
acute, mucronate, rounded at base, entire, somewhat venose be- 
neath, above dull green, from glandular and tuberculate-strigillose 
to incurved-hispid-pilose, beneath paler, pilose and subglandular, 
3-7 em. long, 1.5-3 em. wide; petioles hispid-pilose, 24 mm. 
long. Heads about 4, terminating strigose few-bracted peduncles 
(up to 1.5 dm. long), 4 em. wide; disk in fruit 1.5-1.7 em. high, 
1.8-2 em. thick. Involucre 4(—5)-seriate, graduated, 12-13 mm. 
high, the phyllaries lanceolate, acutish to subacuminate, mucron- 
ulate, with indurated blackish-brown 3-nerved glabrous (but 
marginally ciliate) base and longer rather loose herbaceous 
blackish-green densely tuberculate-hispid-pilose apex. Rays 20, 
narrowly elliptic-oblong, 23 mm. long; disk-corollas appressed- 
puberulous on throat and limb, 6.5 mm. long (tube 1 mm.). Pales 
acute, blackish-green at the denticulate tuberculate-hispidulous 
apex, 9 mm. long. Achenes (immature) subglabrous, 4 mm. long. 
Awns rather easily deciduous, slender, 3-3.7 mm. long; squamellae 
about 6, disjunct, subelliptic, deeply lacerate, 0.3-0.5 mm. long. 
—Hieron.! Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 607 (1901). — ECUADOR: thick 
shrubbery near Banos, base of Mt. Tunguragua, 1500-2000 m., 
June, Lehmann 7965 (type: Ber., photog. and fragm. G.). 
