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gente; venis tenuibus laxe reticulatis utrinque prominulentibus; 
petiolo 1.5 em. longo gracili flexuoso glabriusculo supra canaliculato; 
panicula composita foliaceo-bracteata ca. 3 dm. alta ca. 2 dm. crassa 
pyramidata maturitate laxiuscula, partialibus longiuscule peduncu- 
latis patenter ramulosis breviter incurvo-puberulis vel  substri- 
gillosis; pedicellis filiformibus 3-5 mm. longis; bracteolis ovalibus 
obtusis 1.5 mm. longis stramineis; capitulis maturitate ca. 7 mm 
altis; involucri squamis anguste oblongis dorso striatulis apicem 
rotundatum versus puberulis juventate 3-3.5 mm. longis substra- 
mineis maturitate 4 mm. longis brunnescentibus; corollis albis ca. 
3 mm. longis; tubo proprio gracili 1.5 mm. longo; dentibus limbi 
ovatis fauces campanulatas subaequantibus; achaeniis gracilibus 
apicem versus obscure hispidulis aliter glabris 3.5 mm. longis deorsum 
attenuatis; pappi setis ca. 30 maturitate fulvescentibus.—V ENE- 
zUELA: between Valencia and Campanero (probably in the state of 
Carabobo), alt. 915m., August Fendler, no. 2348 (Gr.). Under this 
number there was distributed material seemingly identical but of 
two quite different stages of development collected 7 Mar. 1857 and — 
12 Feb. 1858. 
This species, having its heads somewhat irregularly cymose on the 
ultimate branchlets of the large and loose panicle, is closely related 
to M. trinervis Hook. & Arn. of Southern Brazil, which, however, has 
thicker more truly coriaceous leaves tending to be of more elliptical- 
ovate outline and lacking the prominulent reticulation of the veins. 
M. (§ Racemosae) Hioramii Britton & Robinson, spec. nov-, 
gracilis scandens; caule oppositirameo obscure hexagono multi- 
costato maturitate subtereti fistuloso ca. 2 mm. diametro glaberrimo 
vel nodos versus obscurissime puberulo; internodiis 4-10 cm. longis; 
nervulis minimis intramarginalibus etiam munitis utrinque glaber- 
rimis supra viridibus delicatule reticulatis subtus pallidioribus crassi- 
uscule reticulatis 6-12 em. longis 3-6 cm. latis subcoriacels; petiolo 
5-10 mm. longo gracili; inflorescentia terminali racemoso-panicur 
lata ca. 1.5 dm. longa ca. 8 em. diametro basin versus foliaceo-brac- 
teata; racemis gracilibus patentibus ca. 4 cm. longis aliquando bast 
compositis 12-20-capitulatis; axe glaberrimo; pedicellis ca. 2 mm. 
longis; bracteolis lineari-subulatis 1.5 mm. longis; capitulis 5 mm. 
altis; involucri squamis 4 anguste elliptico-oblongis aequalibus mee 
2.8 mm. longis apice rotundatis eroso-ciliolatis; corollis albis glabris 

