158 Robinson and Greennan—NMexican Plants. 
hillsides near Guadalajara, 10 October, 1889 (No. 2490). Dis- 
tributed as Cacalia peltata H.B.K., which however differs in its 
more numerously flowered heads, more leafy inflorescence, in the 
presence of long linear calyculate bracts, commonly exceeding 
those of the involucre, also in the more divaricately cleft lobes of 
the leaves. 
ALIA OBTUSILOBA, Radical leaves subcentrally sie 
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above, somewhat paler and puberulent beneath, a foot in diame- 
ter; lobes broad, again irregularly and obtusely lobed and 
mucronate-denticulate; cauline leaves not seen: stem subsulcate, 
sordid-tomentulose: inflorescence thyrsoid-paniculate, tomentu- 
lose: many, 5-flowered, calyculate at base: involucral 
scales 5, oblong-linear, obtusish, green-backed, and tomentulose, 
to 3 lines long: flowers light colored.—Collected by C. G. 
Pringle, on the Sierra de San Felipe, altitude 6,000 feet, 17 
lobes in 3 cutish, su : 
again more or less divaricately lobed; petioles about equalling 
e: 
ened at the base, throat short; segments narrow: achen 
elliptic, densely silky-villous.—Colleeted by C. G. Pringle, om 
dry slopes under oaks, Sierra de Clavellinas, altitude 7,000 feet, 
25 October, 1894 (No. 6018). 
Cacania sinpauroita. Radical leaves ovate-oblong, very 
deeply cordate, obtuse, shallowly and somewhat doubly sinuate- 
dentate, nearly a foot in length, 5 inches in breadth, glabrous, 
pinnately veined, scarcely paler beneath ; midrib purplish; petioles 
wingless, purplish, striate, nearly a foot and a half in leng 
woolly at the base; lower cauline leaves unknown, the upper 
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strongly carinate, 24 lines long: corollas 5 lines long, segments 
two-thirds as long as the tube: achenes ribbed, nearly 2 lines 
in length.—Collected by C. G. Pringle, on the Sierra de las 
Crucis, State of Mexico, 21 August, 1892 (No. 5251). Radical 
leaves resembling in outline those of Silphium terebinthinaceum 
L. y are thinner and less strongly reticulated than in the 
