ROBINSON & GREENMAN: CONTRIB. GRAY HERBARIUM. 95 
San Miguel Uspantan, Dept. Quiché, Heyde and Luz, no. 3370 of 
Mr. J. Donnell Smith’s sets. 
var. brachypoda. Pubescence, at least on the upper part of 
the stem, spreading: pedicels very short (2 to 5 mm. in length): 
pappus none. — Guatemala, Alta Verapaz, altitude 1,300 m., von 
Tuerckheim, no. 852 of Mr. J. Donnell Smith’s sets; also in Colima, 
S. W. Mexico, Palmer, no, 1223 (coll. of 1891). 
var. macrophylla. Pubescence of the stem copious, spread- 
ing: leaves (1.5 dm. long, 8 to 10 cm. broad) much larger than in 
the other forms of the species, subcrenately serrate: pappus none. 
— Venezuela near Tovar, at 1,000 m., altitude, Hendler, no. 686. 
12. G. cosraricensis, Benth. Habit, foliage, and pubescence 
as in G. patens: heads larger (disk-flowers about 50);) involucre 
campanulate: pubescence fine, appressed or subappressed: rays 
about 10: achenes of the disk-flowers destitute of pappus but 
Sometimes crowned with an obscure ring or rim. — Benth. acc. to 
Klatt, Bull. soc. bot. Belg., 31, 199, at least as to pl. of Oersted 
(Pittier’s no. 2614, referred to this species by Klatt, is, in herb. 
Klatt, Baltimora scolosperrum, Steetz!). G. rudbeckioides, Hemsl., 
Biol. Cent.-Amer. Bot., 2, 163, in part, probably not HBK. Gym- 
nopsis? costaricensis, Benth. in Oerst., Vidensk. meddel., 1852, 
p. 90. G. vuleanica, Steetz in Seem. Bot. herald, 157. Aspilia 
costaricensis, Klatt, 1. ¢., 201, as to synon. and Pittier’s no. 3276 
in part.— Costa Rica, Aguacate, and Ujaras, Oersted; Rodeo de 
Pacaca, Pittier, no. 3276 in part, San Francisco de Guadalupe, 
Tondus, nos. 7251, 7288; Rio Maria near S. José, iaaiapeg no. 
7271; Panama Boquete, Veraguas, Seemann, no. 15 
= = Pappus none: Peruvian. : 
13. G. rupBEcKiorEs, HBK. Of habit and foliage of the 
last two species but with short petioles (4 to 6 mm. long), spread- 
ing pubescence, and (ex icon.) more axillary or irregular (less 
definitely corymbose) inflorescence. — Nov. gen. et spec., 4, 219, 
t. 374, — Temperate regions, Agavaca, Peru, Humboldt and Bon- 
pland. Not seen by the writers, who have been unable to match 
satisfactorily the original description and figure of this species with 
any Mexican or Central American plant. 
= = = A definite pappus present, consisting of several fimbriate scales. 
14. ? G. susrrexvosa, Benth. and Hook.f. Habit, foliage, pu- 
bescence, and inflorescence much as in G. patens, from which we are 
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