Blake — A Revision of the Genus Viguiera 167 
tuberculate-strigillose, 5-9 cm. long, 2-10 mm. wide, the upper 
passing gradually into the bracts of inflorescence; petioles scarcely 
any. Heads few (3-6), cymose-panicled, 2.5 em. wide, on pedun- 
cles 5-15.5 em. long; disk 1-1.4 em. high, 9-15 mm. wide, campan- 
ulate. Involucre 5-seriate, strongly graduated, 9-10 mm. high, 
the outermost phyllaries lanceolate (4 mm. long, 1 mm. wide at 
base), the innermost oblong, acuminate, all strongly indurated and 
ribbed, with short lanceolate appressed herbaceous apex, callose- 
mucronate, hispidulous-ciliolate on margin below apex, the her- 
baceous tip slightly tuberculate-strigillose, the phyllaries other- 
wise nearly glabrous (only the outermost more or less strigillose). 
Rays 12, 8-10 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; disk-corollas strigillose be- 
low, 5.5 mm. long (tube 1.1 mm.). Pales obtusish, mucronate, 
sparsely strigillose above, 8.5 mm. long. Achenes (submature) 
sericeous with appressed hairs, 4 mm. long. Awns broadened, 
equalling the squamellae or barely shorter, 2 mm. long; squa- 
mellae 6, lacerate-fimbriate, united to middle. — Baker ! in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 3. 220 (1884).— BRAZIL: without locality, 
Pohl 584 (typrs: K., fragm. G.). 
121. V. pracreata Gardn. Leafy, 1-1.6 m. high, the stem 
greenish, finely and very sparsely strigillose, bearing 4—12 heads. 
Leaves (upper) linear-lanceolate or linear, alternate, acuminate, 
sessile, entire, tuberculate-strigillose but scarcely scabrous, 5-15 
em. long, 3.5-12 mm. wide. Peduncles monocephalous, 3-6- 
bracted, 9.4-14.6 em. long; heads about 3.5 cm. wide; disk 14— 
15 mm. high, 14-19 mm. thick. Involucre 4-seriate, distinctly but 
slightly graduated, 10-12 mm. high, the phyllaries ted wae 
late, acute, strongly indurated below, loose and spreading o 
strongly reflexed at the abruptly herbaceous apex, there slightly 
strigillose and ciliolate, otherwise glabrous. Rays narrowly 
oblong-linear, 17 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide; disk-corollas sparsely 
strigillose chiefly at base of throat, 4.5 mm. long (tube 1.3 mm.). 
Pales subacute, rather sharply keeled, glandular-strigillose above, 
8mm. long. Achenes strongly thickened, pubescent, 3.5 mm. long, 
1.5 mm. wide. Awns very unequal, the longer 1.5 mm. long; 
squamellae about 8, lacerate-fimbriate, free, 0.8 mm. long, one or 
two sometimes longer and equal to the shorter awn. — Gardn.! 
Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 404 (1848); Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. 
pt. 3. 221 (1884). — BRAZIL: Goyaz: dry grassy upland campos, 

