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durated base. Rays rather narrowly oblong, 1.5-‘‘ 2.4” em. long; 
disk-corollas sparsely hispidulous at base of throat and on teeth, 
5 mm. long (tube 1 mm.). Pales subglabrous, subacute, about 
7mm. long. Achenes ciliate, glabrous on sides, about 3 mm. long. 
Awns 2-2.8 cm. long, persistent, one of them sometimes reduced 
to a squamella; squamellae only a pair at base of each awn, or 
sometimes apparently wanting. — Baker ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. 
pt. 3. 226 (1884).— BRAZIL: Sao Pauto: sandy places near 
Arraial de Cajuru, Mar. 1857, Regnell III. 771* (rypxE: fragm. G. 
(ex hb. Stockholm.]). — Description in part from Baker, l. c. 
115. V. ovatirot1a (DC.) Baker. Herbaceous erect perennial, 
the stem slender, terete, subglabrous. Leaves alternate, or sub- 
opposite below, remote, oval-oblong, acute or acutish, subsessile 
by a truncate or truncate-rounded base, subentire, 3-nerved, 
above dark green, sparsely strigillose, beneath pale, velvety- 
hirsute-pilose. Heads few (2 in specimen), terminal and axillary, 
about 2 em. wide, on naked or 1-bracteolate peduncles 8.8-10 em. 
long, puberulous at apex; disk 1 em. high, 1.8 em. thick. In- 
volucre about 4-seriate, graduated, the phyllaries oblong, acute or 
acutish, with coriaceous vittate base and short deltoid herbaceous 
tip, ciliate. Rays about 10, elliptic, rather small. Achenes with 
1-2 awns and several small squamellae, the latter united nearly to 
apex. — Baker in Mart. FI. Bras. vi. pt. 3. 226 (1884). V. ovalz- 
folia Baker, 1. c. 218, in key (sphalm.). Leighia ? ovatifolia DC. ! 
. v. 583 (1836). — BRAZIL: Sao Pavuto: in fields, 1833, 
Herb. Imp. Brésil 410 (type: Par., photog. and sketch G.). — 
Description chiefly compiled from DeCandolle, |. e. 
116. V. raputa Baker. Freely branched above, about 1 m. 
high, the stem moderately stout, rather sparsely hispid-pilose with 
tubercular-based hairs. Leaves alternate, ovate to (upper) 
oblong-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, rounded at base, slightly 
veiny beneath, obscurely serrulate, above green, rather densely 
tuberculate-strigillose with shorter and longer hairs, beneath pale, 
somewhat obscurely pustulate, rather densely and subcanescently 
hispid-pilose with more or less spreading or subincurved hairs with 
tuberculate bases, and somewhat gland-dotted, 6 cm. long, 
2.8 cm. wide, on flattish naked petioles 4 mm. long; the upper 
much smaller. Heads numerous, loosely corymbed, about 2.8 cm. 
wide; peduncles naked or bracteolate, 6-9 cm. long, densely 
