
54 ROBINSON. 
terminal or somewhat lateral, 3—-5-headed; pedicels woolly, 5-15 mm. 
long, filiform, mostly recurved; heads rather large, 1.3 em. high, 
about 1 cm. in diameter; involucre narrowly campanulate, the scales 
lanceolate, attenuate, the inner long, stramineous, smoothish, the outer 
progressively shorter, rather densely woolly; corollas glabrous, greenish 
(Weberbauer), 8-10 mm. long, the style-branches clavate, purple; 
achenes (immature) pale, 4 mm. long, slightly hispidulous on the angles. 
—Chlor. And. i. 216, t. 40A (1857)— Cuzco: on mountains, Gay, ace. 
to Wedd. |. ce. Juntn: calcareous rocks, alt. 3700-4000 m., between 
Tarma and La Oroya, Feb., 1903, Weberbauer, nos. 2524 (Berl.) and 
2583 (Berl., fragm. Gr.). 
19. E. Baim Oliver. Similar to the preceding in habit and in- 
florescence; leaves narrowly lance-oblong, acute, cuneate at the sub- 
sessile base, 5-8 cm. long, 7-13 mm. wide, thinnish, sparingly arachnoid 
and finely bullate above, paler and sparingly sordid-woolly beneath; 
cymes loose, few-headed; heads large, 1.5-1.8 cm. long, mostly nodding 
on slender (at maturity) dark glandular-puberulent pedicels; involueral 
scales ovate-elliptic, acuminate, thin, finely many-striate, 3-5-seriate, 
graduated, the outer distinctly shorter and more woolly; florets as m 
the preceding.— Oliv. in Hook. Ic. xv. 49, t. 1462 (1884).— Lima: om 
ledges of the Andes, near Chicla, alt. 3660-3965 m., Ball (Gr.). ; 
20. E. Cursontt Robinson. Probably shrubby and with the habit 
of the two preceding species; branchlets round, slender, fusco- elt 
lous, leafy toward the summit; internodes about 8 mm. long; ae 
opposite, linear-lanceolate, attenuate to both ends, above slight 
puberulent and bullate-rugulose; beneath paler, ic 
tomentose, 9 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, thickish, the margin strongly ae pant 
slightly crenulate; petiole about 1 mm. long; heads in terminal 3 ak 
cymes, about 80-flowered, very large for the genus, 2.5 em. long ot 
equally thick; pedicels slender (short in fragmentary type but ene 
greater maturity presumably elongating); involucral scales bi 
imbricated in 3-5 series but not graduated as to length, wor 
acute, the outer thickish, 2 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, finely —— de ‘nner 
puberulent on the back, subherbaceous, scarious-margine®; —" tly 
narrower, smoother and more stramineous; receptacle appat” 
somewhat paleiferous toward the edge; pales very narrow, style 
attenuate; corollas 1 em. long, slenderly tubular, petite ide 
branches, clavate, somewhat flattened, dark purple; + 50, some 
long, slightly roughened on the angles; pappus-bristles ate’ PA 
of the outer shorter.— Proc. Am. Acad. xlii. 38 (1906 oe a single 
Arequipa, Curson (Brit. Mus., phot. Gr.).— Known only from" 
