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lous or glabrous and merely ciliolate at the triangular apex, 
8.5 mm. long. Achenes (submature) 5.5 mm. long, striate, his- 
pidulous at apex. Awns much broadened below, 2 mm. long; 
squamellae about half as long, about 8-10, lanceolate, acuminate, 
laciniate, united below. — Gardn. ! Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 402 
(1848); Baker in Mart. FI. Bras. vi. pt. 3. 225 (1884). — BRAZIL: 
Goyaz: dry upland campos or in marsh, Mission of Duro, Oct. 
1839, Gardner 3291 (TyPE couL.: B. M., K., fragm. G.). Brazil 
without definite locality: Burchell 6535 (G., K.), 8294-2 (K.). — 
T. 2. Fia. 28. 
124. V. nervosa Gardn. Simple or slightly branched above, 
5-6 dm. high, bearing 3-4 heads terminal and from the upper 
axils. Stem tuberculate-hispid, the hair-bases persistent. Leaves 
opposite below, alternate above, linear-lanceolate, somewhat 
scythe-shaped, subacuminate, acute at base, subsessile or short- 
petioled, entire, slightly revolute, strongly 3-nerved and. very 
strongly venose-reticulate, very rough both sides with tuberculate- 
based hairs, apparently somewhat glutinous, 6-12 cm. long, 6- 
13 mm. wide; petioles hispidulous, 1.5-3.5 mm. long. Peduncles 
2-3 dm. long, monocephalous, tuberculate-strigillose, just beneath 
the head puberulous, naked or 2-bracteate; heads 3.54 em. wide; 
disk 1-1.2 em. high, 8-12 mm. thick. Involucre 4-seriate, strongly 
graduated, 1-1.2 em. high, the outermost phyllaries ovate, the next 
oval-ovate, the others oblong, all acute, indurated and vittate be- 
low, ciliolate, lepidote-hispidulous, with abrupt deltoid to lanceo- 
late-deltoid subherbaceous rather loose tip. Rays about 8, oblong, 
13-14 mm. long, 3-3.6 mm. wide; disk-corollas puberulous 
chiefly below, 5 mm. long (tube 0.9 mm.). Pales acuminate, his- 
pidulous, 11 mm. long. Achenes (immature) sparsely hispidulous, 
4mm. long. Awns 2.5 mm. long; squamellae about 8, lanceolate, 
acute, fimbriate, free, 0.5 mm. long. — Gardn. ! Lond. Journ. Bot. 
vii. 403 (1848); Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 3. 228 (1884). — 
BRAZIL: Goyaz: very common, bushy places in upland campos 
near Villa de Natividade, Dec. 1839, Gardner 3290 (TYPE COLL.: 
B. M., K., fragm. G.). — The date of collection, given as “ Jan. 
1840 ” in Gardner’s published account, is given as “ Dec. 1839.” 
on all the labels I have examined. 
125. V. Garpnert Baker. Leafy, erect, bearing 3-5 heads from 
the upper axils, 1.3-1.6 m. high, the stem more or less densely 
