ROBINSON AND GREENMAN, — GENUS VERBESINA. 559 
los, Bourgeau, no. 1210; near Guadalajara, Jalisco, Palmer, no. 698, 
Pringle, no. 1797; Binaios, Lamb, no. 463, immature. 
+ + Stems narrowly winged: outer bracts of the involucre two thirds as long as 
the inner, oblong, obtuse ; pedicels tomentose, 2 to 8 mm. long: Mexican. 
87. V. montanoifolia. Stems terete, narrowly 4-winged ; inter- 
nodes long: leaves opposite, sinuately and pinnately 3(—5)-lobed, 8 to 16 
cm. long, 8 to 13 cm. broad, scabrous above, green and densely pubescent 
beneath with short stiff spreading hairs; lobes ovate, denticulate not 
incised: corymbs compound, the primary branches long, but the ultimate 
tomentose pedicels considerably shorter than in the preceding species: 
- involucral scales 2-seriate, green, 4 to 6 mm. long: rays 8 to 10, bright 
yellow, 6 mm. long: body of the disk-achene oblanceolate, 4 mm. long, 
glabrous ; wings about equal, rather broad, rounded at the summit; awns 
2, long, subequal. — Ravines, Patzcuaro, Michoacan, 11 November, 1890, 
C. G. Pringle, no. 8475. : 
+ + + Stems with peeks narrow wings: pedicels 4 to Bek 16 mm. long, covered 
ith a sordid pubescence: S. Am 
83. v. caracasana. Shrub 2 to 3 m. high: branches sparingly 
scabrous-pubescent ; wings 4, herbaceous, 1 to 2 mm. in breadth, straight 
(not crisped as in V. pinnatifida): leaves opposite, sinuately 3-lobed, 
very scabrous and white-punctate above, somewhat paler but green and 
sordid-pubescent beneath, rather thin, 8 to 16 cm. long, 6 to 11 cm. broad : 
lobes acute or acuminate, mucronulate-serrulate to dentate, neither lobed 
hor incised: corymbs ample, at first fastigiate, at length loose : pedicels 
slender, more or less flexuous, sordid-pubescent ; involucre in anthesis 
cylindrical, 5 mm. in breadth; scales 3—4-seriate, narrowly oblong, acu- 
tish, pubescent: rays 6 to 8, little exserted: fruiting heads 1.5 cm. in 
diameter: achenes broadly obcordate; the body oblong, cuneate at the 
base, 4 mm, long, somewhat tuberculate ; wings broad; awns 2, nearly 
as long as the achene. — Caracas, Birschel, December, 1854; also near 
Tovar, Venezuela, 1854-1855, at 1,200 m. altitude, 4. Hendler, no. 693. 
«+ + + + Stems wingless: Mexican. 
89. V. rrmosara, Rob. & Greenm. Proc. Am. Acad. xxxii. 46. — 
Rocky gulches, Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Pringle, no. 4875, 
$11. Ocuractinia. Heads small : rays white or nearly so: leaves 
alternate. 
