ROBINSON AND GREENMAN. —GENUS VERBESINA. 561 
the outer somewhat spatulate with herbaceous often recurved tips: 
achenes obovate, glabrous, black and shining, 5 mm. in length, narrowly 
winged ; awns of the pappus very short (0.2 to 0.5 mm. in os 
—V. virginica, var. Palmeri, Gray, ace. to Wats. Proc. Am. Aca 
xviii. 106, & xix. 11 (where first described); Hemsl. 1. c. iv. 57.— 
Soledad, Coahuila, Mexico, Dr, Edw. Palmer, no. 733 (coll. of 1880). 
Type in herb. Gray. 
* * Trees, shrubs, and gigantic sg aan of South Mexico, Central and 
South Americ 
+ Leaves broadly lanceolate, very ee (7 to ne em. in breadth), undivided. 
93. V. punctata. Stems pale gray, pithy, terete, smooth: leaves 
alternate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate ; the blade 2 to 3 dm. long, 7 to 22 
cm. broad, serrate-dentate, slightly ‘scalcctie and white-punctate above, 
green, scarcely paler, veiny and sparsely pubescent beneath, acute, nar- 
rowed or abruptly contracted below into a winged petiole: branches of 
the compound many-headed corymb winged; pedicels filiform, 8 to 
14 mm. long; involucre campanulate, 5 to 6 mm. in diameter; scales 3- 
seriate, ovate, acuminate, ciliolate, otherwise glabrous, the outer much 
shorter: rays about 8, white, short-oblong: achenes of the disk-flowers 
(immature) narrowly winged; pappus-awns long and slender. — V. leprosa, 
Coulter in Donnell Smith, Enum. Pl. Guat. pt. 4, 88, not Klatt. — Gua- 
temala, Casillas, and Las Viiias, Depart. Sta. Rosa, Heyde & Luc, v nos. 
4241 and 6176 of Mr. J. Donnell Smith’s sets. 
+ + Leaves lance-oblong, undivided, 2 to 4 cm. broad, glabrate and very 
smooth above. 
94. V. acuminata, DC. 1. c, 614. Shrub or small tree, 2 to 5 m. 
high, exuding a viscid milky juice: leaves varying from entire to ser- 
rate. —_V. Moritziana, Sch. Bip. acc. to Klatt, Leopoldina, xx. 93, 
V. salicifolia, Klatt, 1. c. not HBK.— Caracas, Vargas, Moritz, no. 
832; Tovar, Venezuela, Fendler, no. 2352; U. S. Colombia, Moritz, 
0. 833 
saa ionally subentire in V. verbascifolia. 
Pr. ee 
++ Stems wingless above, soon innit and very ary leaves deeply pinnatifid, 
lobes 5 to 11, relatively narrow, 
95. V. Gicanrea, Jacq. Branches wingless. —JIe. Pl. Rar. i. t. 175 
& Coll. 1.58; DC. Le. 615. V. myriocephala, Sch. Bip. in Klatt, 1. ¢. 
xxiii, 144, — Chiapas, near Yajalon, Z. W. Nelson, no. 3423; St. Augus- 
tin, S. Mexico, Liebmann, no. 271; Guatemala, Palin and St. Luis, -/. 
Donnell Smith, nos. 2861, 2378; Peat Seemann ; Jamaica, Wolf; 
Martinique, Hahn ; Magdalena, U. S. Colombia, André, no. 222. 
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