148 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
1.5-1.8 cm. wide; petioles 5-8 mm. long. Peduncles glandular- 
pubescent, 0.5—-4.5 em. long; heads 2.3-2.8 em. wide; disk 8-9 mm. 
high, 12-13 mm. thick. Involucre 3-seriate, slightly graduated or 
subequal, 6 mm. high, the phyllaries lanceolate, acute, striate, 
ribbed, strigillose, gland-dotted, at apex shortly subherbaceous. 
Rays about 12, yellow, oblong, 10 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide; disk- 
corollas yellow, sparsely puberulous, 5 mm. long (tube 0.9 mm,). 
Pales subglabrous, acute to acuminate, 5.5-7 mm. long. Achenes 
(submature) black, sericeous, 3mm. long. Awns 2, ciliate, 2.7 mm. 
long; squamellae about 4, oblong, 1 mm. long, laciniate. — Blake! 
Bot. Jahrb. liv. Beibl. No. 119. 48 (1916). — PERU: open for- 
mation, 2200-2500 m., Caraz, Dept. Ancacho, 19 May 1903, 
Weberbauer 3008 (rypu: Ber., photog. and fragm. G.). 
99. V. australis, sp. nov. Herbacea ramosior, caule purpureo 
glaberrimo (apice excepto) apice paniculate ramoso polycephalo, 
foliis inferioribus Oppositis superioribus alternis anguste lanceolatis 
longe acuminatis basi anguste cuneatis subintegris supra lepidoto- 
strigillosis infra minute strigillosis et glandulari-adspersis utrinque 
viridibus 4.5—7 em. longis 7-11.5 mm. latis, petiolis 3-6 mm. longis, 
capitulis 2.3-3 em. latis, involucri 3-seriati gradati 6.5-7 mm. alti 
phyllariis anguste lanceolatis strigillosis basi induratis costatis 
apice subabrupte herbaceis angustioribus laxis vel reflexis, radils 
ca. 8, acheniis subsparse pilosis, squamellis ca. 12 lacerato-fimbriatis 
liberis. 
Herbaceous, rather strongly branched, the stem slender, purplish, 
very smooth below, in inflorescence strigillose, many-headed. 
Leaves opposite below, alternate above, narrowly lanceolate, 
long-acuminate, cuneate at base, entire or the largest obscurely 
serrulate, green both sides, above lepidote-strigillose, beneath 
3-6 mm. long. Peduncles naked or 1-bracted, 3.7-7.7 cm. long, 
monocephalous; heads 2.3-3 em. wide ; disk 9-10 mm. high, 
‘5 mm. thick. Involucre 3-seriate, graduated, 6.5-7 mm. high, 
the phyllaries narrowly lanceolate, strigillose, below thickened, 
ribbed and vittate, above with short or long linear-lanceolate 
loose or reflexed herbaceous apex. Rays about 8, golden-yellow, 
Sparsely pubescent on back, 1 em. long, 3.5 mm. wide; disk- 
corollas yellow, strigillose below and on the teeth, 4.2 mm. long 
