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558 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
c. Heads numerous: branches lanate. 
1. Tips of the involucral scales squarrose: rays 7 to 8 mm. long: leaves remotely 
incurved-dentate, 8 to 5 cm. broad. 
83. V. Orrstepr1ana, Benth. in Oersted, Vidensk. Meddel. 1852, 
p- 96; Klatt, 1. c. xxiii. 144.— Costa Rica, on the side of the Volcano 
Irasu, altitude 2,000 to 2,500 m., Oersted, Pittier, no. 11583. ; 
2. Tips of the involucral scales appressed: rays 1.1 cm. long: leaves essentially 
entire, 6 to 10 cm- broad. 
84. V. lanata. Stem stout, pithy, terete, woolly: leaves elliptic- 
lanceolate, obsoletely denticulate, pubescent upon both surfaces, 1.5 to 
2.5 dm. long, 6 to 10 cm. broad, rather abruptly narrowed to a caudate 
acumination at the apex, gradually narrowed below to a wingless woolly 
petiole 4 cm. in length: branches of the compound flat-topped many- 
headed corymbs sordid-lanate or -tomentose; involucre turbinate, about 
4-seriate, sordid-tomentulose ; scales oblong, obtusish: rays about 10, 
elliptic-oblong, 6 mm. long, white (?); awns of the pappus long and slen- 
der. — V. Oerstediana, Donnell Smith, Enum. Pl. Guat. pt. 1, 23, not 
Benth. — Guatemala, Coban, Depart. Alta Verapaz, H. von J werck- 
heim, February, 1888, no. 1344 of Mr. J. Donnell Smith’s sets. 
$10. Psevpomontanoa. Heads small: rays yellow: leaves sinu- 
ately 3-5-lobed: pales broad. 
: * Leaves alternate. 
85. V. fastigiata. Tomentulose, younger parts more or less white- 
woolly: stems with rather broad herbaceous wings: leaves alternate, 
palmately 3-lobed, slightly scabrous above, loosely canescent-tomentos? 
beneath, 3-nerved from above the base, 8 to 20 cm. long, 5 to 14 cm. 
broad, decurrent into winged petioles; nerves prominent beneath: heads 
numerous, in anthesis 5 mm. in diameter, in fruit 1 to-1.2 em. in diam- 
eter, subglobose, in compound flat-topped fastigiate corymbs ; scales of 
the involucre about 3-seriate, unequal, narrowly ovate, acute, appressed 
pubescent and ciliate; pales stramineous, acute, with an erect tip: TJ : 
small, pale yellow: achenes broadly winged, pale in color, broadly end 
vate, the body 3 mm. long; pappus of 2 unequal awns. — Mexico, with- 
out locality, Dr. J. Gregg, 1848-1849, no. 575. 
* * Leaves opposite. 
+ Stems broadly winged: outer involucral bracts minute, ovate, ac 
decurrent upon the puberulent pedicels; these subumbellate, 1 to 3 cm. 
_ Mexican. 
ute, somewhat 
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86. V. prnnatiripa, Cav. Ic. i. 67, t. 100; DC. Prodr. v- 615; 
_ / Hemsl. 1. ¢. ii. 190, excl. synon. and pl. Oersted. — Cuernavaca, saat 
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