150 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
1-2 em. wide; petioles tuberculate-hispid-pilose, 2-3 mm. long. 
Heads about 3-16, cymose-panicled, 2.5-4 cm. wide, on axillary 
and terminal peduncles 1.5-9 em. long, tuberculate-hispid-pilose, 
naked or bracteolate; disk 9-11 mm. high, 9—(fruit)19 mm. thick. 
Involucre 2(-3)-seriate, graduated, 9-10 mm. high, the phyllaries 
lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, callose-mucronate, at base in- 
durated, costate, glabrous or subglabrous, above herbaceous, 
strigose, tuberculate-hispid-ciliate. Rays about 14, yellow, 
sparsely pubescent on back, oblong, 10 mm. long, 4.5-6 mm. wide; 
disk-corollas yellow, puberulous below and on the teeth, 5.2 mm. 
long (tube 1.2mm.). Pales obtuse to subacute, minutely strigillose 
above, in age purplish, 6 mm. long. Achenes black, very sparsely 
strigillose, 2.8 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide. Awns 2, lanceolate, more 
or less deciduous, 1.2 mm. long; squamellae 4-6, erose, free, 
minute, 0.2-0.3 mm. long. — BRAZIL: Minas Grass: Caldas, 
27 March 1846, Widgren (rypr: K.); Caldas, Mar. 1865, Regnell 
III. 772 (K.); vicinity of Rio de Janeiro and Ouro Preto, 1883-84, 
Glaziou 15080 (K.); without definite locality, 1845, Widgren (G.). 
Brazil without locality, Glaziou 16165 (K.). — The specimens in 
the Kew Herbarium collected by Widgren and Regnell were 
labelled V. pilosa by Mr. Baker. From that species V. nudibasi- 
laris differs in pubescence of leaves, peduncles, and phyllaries, and 
in pappus characters. — T. 2. Fie. 23. 
101. V. prtosa Baker. Erect, herbaceous, branched, the stem 
stoutish, sparsely strigose-pilose, glabrate below except for the 
tuberculate hair-bases, above tuberculate-hispid-pilose, the hairs 
ascending, persistent. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, acuminate, 
callose-mucronate, acute at base, widest below the middle, serrate 
(teeth 7-12 pairs, appressed or spreading, acute or obtuse), OT the 
uppermost subentire, 3-nerved, faintly revolute, above dark gree”, 
harshly lepidote-tuberculate-strigose or -strigillose, the hair-bases 
persistent, beneath pale or subcanescent, gland-dotted and rather 
sparsely appressed-pilose all over with slightly roughish hairs, 
thickened below but scarcely tuberculate, 5-12 cm. long, 1-23 
cm. wide, narrowed into scarcely margined tuberculate-hispid- 
pilose petioles 2.5-3 mm. long. Heads about 5-8, cymose-panicled, 
3.5 em. wide, on canescently strigose-pilose naked or bracteate 
peduncles 2-7 em. long; disk 9-11 mm. high, 12-14 mm. thick. 
Involucre 2(—3)-seriate, 8-9 mm. high, the phyllaries unequal, 100° 

