140 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
3 em. long, 5-9 mm. wide; disk-corollas sparsely pubescent below, 
5 mm. long (tube 1 mm.). Pales carinate, subobtuse, subglabrate, 
7-9 mm. long. Achenes (submature) subsericeous, 3.5 mm. long. 
Awns 2, ciliate, 3 mm. long; squamellae about 10, very unequal, 
laciniate, up to 0.5 mm. long. — Helianthus Sodiroi Hieron.! Bot. 
Jahrb. xxix. 41 (1900). — ECUADOR: dry hills near Piso, Sodiro 
34/3 (rypE: Ber., photog. and fragm. G.). — A good Viguiera in 
its technical characters. 
90. V. Motus Griseb. Suffrutescent (?), branched, erect, 2- 
2.5 m. high, the stem somewhat harshly and canescently short- 
villous, at length subglabrate, the thickened bases of the hairs 
persistent. Leaves alternate, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute 
to acuminate, cuneate to rounded at base, with a few serrations 
toward the apex, green and tuberculate-hispidulous above, be- 
neath densely and softly canescent-tomentose, 6-8.5 cm. long, 
1.5-3 em. wide; peticles tomentose, mostly 1.5-3 mm. long. 
Heads terminating softly tomentose-pilose branchlets and axillary 
peduncles, 5-5.5 em. wide; disk 12-13 mm. high, 16-18 mm. thick. 
Involucre 4-seriate, graduated, 10-12 mm. high, the phyllaries 
oval-oblong (outer) to oblong, subobtuse to acute, subherbaceous, 
densely canescent-tomentulose or the inner merely appressed 
canescent-pubescent, squarrose at apex. Rays about 16, oblong, 
(1.2)2-2.3 em. long, 4-8 mm. wide; disk-corollas strigillose par 
ticularly below, 5 mm. long (tube 0.8 mm.). Pales subobtuse, 
mucronulate, minutely hispidulous at apex, 8 mm. long. Achenes 
sparsely hairy on margin, minutely strigillose at apex, 3.8 mm. 
long. Awns 2.8 mm. long; squamellae about 6, laciniate, free, 
0.4 mm. long. — Griseb.! Goett. Abh. xix. 183 (1874). — ARGEN- 
TINA: Cuesta del Garabatal, between Siambon and Juntas, in the 
Sierra de Tucuman, 18 March 1872, Lorentz 502 (TYPE COLL: 
Ber., photog. and fragm. G.); Yacone near Salta, 27-28 March 
1873, Lorentz & Hieronymus (Ber.). 
1. V. LaNcEoLaTa Britton. Perennial, perhaps suffrutescent 
at base, branched, the stem stoutish or somewhat slender, rather 
densely tuberculate-hispid-pilose with rather spreading or incurv ed- 
ascending hairs and somewhat granular, the hair-bases persistent. 
Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, lanceolate, long-acuminate, 
cuspidulate, at base cuneate, crenate-serrate with about 6-16 pails 
of obscure appressed teeth or subentire, above green, subdensely 
