ROBINSON AND GREENMAN. — GENUS MONTANOA. 517 
subcordate at the exauriculate base: fruiting heads (1.4 cm. in diameter) 
considerably smaller than in the preceding related species. — Proc. Am. 
Acad. xxii. 424. — Jalisco on the Rio Blanco, Palmer, no. 599, near 
Guadalajara, Pringle, nos. 2467 (distr. as MZ. patens), 4545; at Balaios, 
Rose, no. 2939. Readily distinguished by the retuse pales. 
++ ++ Climbing shrubs with slender terete stems, thinner more delicate leaves, and 
long slender and mostly hooked peduncles: clematoid plants of lower and more 
tropical regions than the preceding group: nearly related and imperfectly 
known species. 
= Leaves large (1.2 dm. long), crenate-serrate, conspicuously appendaged at the 
base, obsoletely 3-lobed, caudate-acuminate, some of the upper ones usually 
alternate. 
24, M. Pittieri. Brarchlets green, in dried state striate, at first 
tomentulose, soon only puberulent or wholly glabrate: leaves ovate or 
somewhat rhombic in general contour, with a shoulder-like angle or short 
lobe on each side, appressed-puberulent not scabrous above, somewhat 
paler and soft-puberulent beneath, crenate-serrate with mucronulate 
_ teeth, rounded at the base but extended at the insertion of the petiole 
into a quadrate biauriculate appendage ; petioles (2 to 3 em. long) pubes- 
Cent: peduncles alternate (4 em. long), very flexuous and at length 
recurved: heads not numerous, in anthesis 1.1 to 1.2 cm. in diameter 
excl, rays; the latter about 8, white, 1.5 em. long; involucral bracts 
ut 6, lanceolate, acute, 4 mm. long; pales in young fruit papery, 
obovate, erose-dentate, tipped at the usually retuse summit with a short 
sharp incurved point. — IZ. hibiscifolia, Klatt, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 
Xxxi. 201, not Benth. — Costa Rica, in a hedge on the llanos of Ala- 
juelita, Pittier, no. 1455. 
= = Leaves smaller (4 to 9 em. long), deltoid-ovate, acuminate, mostly opposite 
to the summit of the stem, serrate, undivided or somewhat 3-lobed, rounded, 
truncate, or subcordate at the base but often with a slight appendage or short 
acumination at the insertion of the petiole. 
rs 25. M. PAUCIFLORA, Klatt. Puberulent: leaves slightly scabrous 
above, regularly serrate, undivided and shallowly but acutely 3-lobed 
upon the same shoot ; petioles 1 to 4 cm. long: heads few or many ; 1n- 
Volucral bracts oblong- or linear-lanceolate, 4 mm. long, pubescent : 
branches of the inflorescence opposite and divaricate, flexuous: ligules 
13 to 1.5 em. long, — Leopoldina, xxiii. 90. Coreopsis trilobata, Vahl 
m herb. acc. to Klatt, 1. c. —South America without locality, “e pl. 
West.” With Dr. Klatt’s not over satisfactory type we should iden- 
tify the following: J. Donnell Smith’s no. 4242, coll. Heyde & - Lux at 
