170 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
lepidote-tuberculate-strigillose. Leaves alternate, oblong, acutish, 
rounded-cuneate at base or subtruncate, obscurely serrulate with 
6-10 pairs of appressed teeth or subentire, lepidote-strigillose above, 
tuberculate-strigillose beneath, equally green both sides, 3-nerved, 
4.3~-7.3 em. long, 1.4-2 em. wide; petioles flattened, scarcely 
margined, 1.5-2.5 mm. long. Peduncles 3.5-14.5 em. long, strigil- 
lose, few-bracteate, the bracts oblong, 1-3 cm. long; heads 2.5-3.5 
em. wide; disk 9-15 mm. high, 1.7-2.3 em. wide. Involucre 4-5- 
seriate, distinctly graduated, 8-12 mm. high, the phyllaries 
broadly oblong, acutish to obtuse or rounded at tip, subsparsely 
tuberculate-strigillose, below thickened and ribbed, the short 
subherbaceous apex appressed. Rays about 12-14, narrow-oblong, 
1 em. long, 2 mm. wide; disk-corollas strigillose below, 5.5 mm. 
long (tube 1.4 mm.). Pales subobtuse, mucronate, strigillose at 
apex, 9mm. long. Achenes densely sericeous, 4.8 mm. long, 2 mm. 
wide. Awns broadened, 3 mm. long; squamellae about 8, sub- 
equal, lacerate-fimbriate, united nearly to apex, firm, stiff, 2.56 mm. 
long; whole pappus at maturity somewhat purplish-tinged. — 
Baker ! in Mart. FI. Bras. vi. pt. 3. 224 (1884).— BRAZIL: Goraz: 
dry upland campos between Arrayas and San Domingos, May 
1840, Gardner 4233 bis (Type couu.: B. M., K., fragm. G.). 
126. V. ropusTa Gardn. Branched or simple below the in- 
florescence, 0.6-1 m. high, the stem often stout, strigillose and 
more or less densely tuberculate-hispidulous, leafy, bearing at 
apex 1-13 heads on terminal and axillary peduncles. Leaves 
alternate or rarely partly opposite, oblong or ovate-oblong to oval, 
gradually reduced to small bracts above, blunt or acutish, rounded 
to subcordate and subamplexicaul at base, sessile or on short 
hispid-pilose petioles 1.5 mm. long, green and rugose above, 
densely scabrous-strigillose, beneath much paler, subcanescent, 
rather densely hispidulous and gland-dotted, strongly reticulate 
beneath, irregularly crenate-serrate, 1.54 em. long, 0.7-2.3 cm. 
wide. Ultimate peduncles 1-15 em. long, somewhat thickened 
upwardly; heads 2.2-2.5 em. wide; disk 1-1.3 em. high, 1.3-2 em. 
wide. Involucre 4-5-seriate, graduated, 7-10.5 mm. high, the 
phyllaries narrowly to broadly oblong or oval, obtuse to rounded 
or rarely acute to (innermost) subacuminate at apex, mucronulate, 
ciliolate, more or less hispidulous, indurated and vittate below, 
with short deltoid barely subherbaceous appressed apex. Rays 
