164 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
hispid-pilose and glandular below the head; disk 12.5 mm. high, 
18 mm. thick. Involucre 4-seriate, graduated, 8 mm. high, the 
phyllaries oblong or oblong-ovate, acute or acutish, with pale 
indurated body, glabrous, or hispid-pilose on margin and midline, 
and shorter loose or spreading densely tuberculate-hispid-pilose 
deltoid herbaceous tip. Rays about 12 mm. long, 3 mm. wide; 
disk-corollas glabrous except on teeth, 5.5 mm. long (tube 1 mm.). 
Pales firm, with slightly cucullate sparsely pubescent apex, 7- 
8 mm. long. Achenes more or less appressed-pilose, about 4 mm. 
long. Awns about 2.5 mm. long; squamellae about 3 pairs, irregu- 
larly lacerate, united at base or to middle, 1.5 mm. long or less. — 
Baker ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 3. 223 (1884). — BRAZIL: 
Minas Gerass: less elevated pastures of Caldas, Apr. 1865 and 
Apr. 1867, Regnell I. 190* (ryprs: fragm. G. [ex herb. Stock- 
holm.]). — Description in part from Baker, 1. ec. — T. 2. Fie. 27. 
117. V. pilicaulis, sp. nov. Herbacea foliosa infra inflorescen- 
tiam simplex, caule valido densissime hispido-piloso apice ¢a. 
18-capitato, foliis alternis inferioribus rotundato-ovalibus 8.5 cm. 
latis mediis et superioribus ovatis reticulato-venosis serratis vel 
crenato-serratis supra scaberrime tuberculato-hispidis subtus 
piloso-hispidis, involucri 5-seriati 8-9 mm. alti phyllariis oblongis 
induratis vittatis subcoriaceis hispidulo-ciliolatis apice abrupte 
breviterque herbaceis. 
Erect herbaceous perennial, leafy, simple below the inflorescence, 
the stem stout (1.3 em. thick), very densely hispid-pilose, striatu- 
late; at apex cymosely paniculate-branched, bearing 17-18 heads. 
Leaves alternate, the lower rotund-oval, obtuse, 10 cm. long, 8.5 
cm. wide, the middle and upper ovate, acute, mucronulate, truncate- 
rounded at base, 3-nerved and reticulate-venose, serrate with ap- 
pressed mucronulate teeth (the lower crenate-serrate), above very 
harshly tuberculate-hispid, beneath hispid-pilose, more or less 
glandular, 5-7 cm. long, 2-3.5 em. wide, the petioles tuberculate- 
hispid, 2-3 mm. long. Peduncles tuberculate-hispid, 1-9 cm. long; 
heads 2.5 em. broad; disk 1-1.2 em. high, 1-1.2 cm. thick. In- 
volucre 5-seriate, 8-9 mm. high, graduated, the phyllaries oblong, 
thickened, vittate, subcoriaceous, pale, hispidulous-ciliolate (the 
outer also tuberculate-hispidulous), at apex with a deltoid subob- 
tuse mucronulate more or less tuberculate abrupt herbaceous tip. 
Rays 10-11, yellow, oblong-oval, pubescent on back, 1—1.2 ¢m- 
