ROBINSON AND GREENMAN. — GENUS VERBESINA. 537 
& Spec. iv. 200. Saubinetia, Remy in Gay, Fl. Chil. iv. 282. Ximene- 
sia, Cay. Ic. ii. 60, t. 178. For more complete generic synonymy see 
Hook. f. & Jacks. Ind. Kew. under Verbesina and Actinomeris. 
§ 1. Hamoutivum, DC. |. ¢. 617. Awns of the pappus hooked at the 
summit. Heads subsolitary, radiate; ligules short, yellow, more or less 
biseriate. — Hamulium, Cass. 1. c. & Dict. xx. 260. Ancistrophora, 
Gray, 1. c.— Two species, chiefly West Indian. 
* Acaulescent. 
1. V. Wricutu, Griseb. Dwarf herb with radical spatulate leaves 
and naked scapose peduncles. — Cat. Pl. Cub. 155 (1866). V. ancis- 
trophora, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 14 (1883). Hamulium Wrightii, 
Sch. Bip. Bonplandia, ix. 365 (1861). — Cuba, Wright, no. 1317 
* * Caulescent: leaves alternate, decurrent. 
2. V. auata, L. Spec. ii. 901. Hamulium alatum, Cass. 1. c. 261. 
— Common and generally distributed in the West Indies. Said also to 
grow in Dutch Guiana and in Mexico, but not obtained in the latter 
country by recent collectors. 
§ 2. Puarypreris, DC. 1. ¢. 617, in part (as to § 1). Heads discoid; 
large, subglobose. — Platypteris, HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. iv. 200. — 
ree species of S. Mexico and Central America with opposite leaves 
and winged stems. 
* Bracts of the involucre of subequal length, the outer obovate or oblanceolate. 
3. V. Frasert, Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Am. Bot. ii. 187. — Guatemala, 
Duefias, Fraser, Savin, & Godman, ace. to Hemsl.; Depart. Santa Rosa, 
Heyde & Lux, no. 4236 of Mr. J. Donnell Smith’s sets. 
Var.* Netsont, J. Donnell Smith, Bot. Gaz. xxiii. 9. — Near Neuton, 
Depart. Huehuetenango, Guatemala, Nelson, no. 3551. Said to have 
leaves lobed and heads smaller than in the typical form. 
* * Involucral bracts narrow, oblong to linear, the outer much shorter. 
+ Leaves ovate, serrulate. 
4. V. ovatironia, Gray in Hemsl. 1. c. 189, & Proc. Am. Acad. 
xix. 15.— Chiapas, Mexico, Ghiesbreght, no. 523. 
+ + Leaves dentate or sinuately lobed. 
5. V. crocara, Less. Syn. Comp. 232; DC. Prodr. v. 617 ; Hemsl. 
lc. 187. V. Fraseri, Klatt, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxi. 205, not 
Hemsl. Bidens crocata, Cav. Ic. i. 66, t. 99, Spilanthes. crocata, 
