144 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
28 Feb. 1902, Weberbauer 464 (Typ of V. punensis: Ber., photog. 
and fragm. G.); between Culluay and Obrajillo, in the Andes, 
U.S. Expl. Expedition under Wilkes in part (U.S. no. 48974, in part). 
BOLIVIA: Sorata, 2600-3000 m., March-April 1859, Mandon 34 
(TYPE COLL. of H. calvus: G., K.); Achacache, Prov. Omasuyos, 
foot of Mt. Avichaca, 4000 m., June 1859, Mandon 36 (H. Man- 
donit var. Sch. Bip. !: G.); La Paz, 3050 m., April 1885, Rusby 
1683 (G., U.8.); 1. ¢., 3700-3750 m., 1906-07, Buchtien 1510 (G.); 
1. c., March 1910, Buchtien 198 (G.); 1. ¢., 3650 m., March 1913, 
Buchtien (Mo.); Palea to La Paz, 3700 m., 5 June 1909, Pflanz 48 
(coTyPE of V. Pflanzii: Ber., photog. and fragm. G.); Huanca- 
pampa, 3650-3800 m., April 1910, Pflanz 372 (coryrn of V. 
Pflanzti: Ber., fragm. G.). — Closely related to the last, from 
which it is distinguished chiefly by the smaller and relatively 
broader ovate rather than lanceolate or lance-ovate leaves which 
are merely acute at apex. Local name “ ss-akka,’’ according to 
Pflanz. — T. 2. Fia. 20; T. 3; Fra,:12. 
94. V. SzyszyLowiczir Hieron. Herbaceous (?), erect, much 
branched, the branches erect; stem stout, leafy, densely and 
minutely glandular and tuberculate-hispid, bearing about 30 
cymose-panicled heads. Leaves alternate, ovate to ovate-lance- 
olate, acuminate, rounded at base, entire, 3-nerved and very 
strongly venose beneath, green both sides, glandular-dotted and 
sparsely tuberculate-strigose and -strigillose, 4.5-6.8 cm. long, 
1.7-3.5 cm. wide, subsessile. Heads rather long-peduncled, about 
4 cm. broad; disk 13-16 mm. high, 15-19 mm. broad. Involucre 
3-seriate, scarcely graduated, 14-17 mm. high, the phyllaries 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, blackish-green, scarcely 
indurated, somewhat glandulose, densely hispid-strigose. Rays — 
about 12, oblong, 15 mm. long, 2.8 mm. wide; disk-corollas strigil- 
lose below and on teeth, 5 mm. long (tube 1.1 mm.). Pales very 
narrow, subacute, slightly strigillose at the colorate apex, 9 mm. 
long. Achenes sparsely strigose, 4.2 mm. long. Awns 2 or 3, 
slender, unequal, up to 2.8 mm. long; squamellae about 6, lacini- 
ate, united to the middle, 0.8 mm. long. — Hieron. ! Bot. Jahrb. 
mexvi. 489 (1905). — PERU: between Chota and Cutervo, June 
1879, Jelski (distr. Szyseylowice) 797 (rypE: Ber., photog. and 
gm. G.).— T. 2. Fig. 21. 
