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b. Rays 8 to 10, not conspicuously carinate or conduplicate: South American. 
22. G. QUITENSIS, Benth. and Hook.f. Shrub with rather 
copious pubescence : leaves all opposite, acuminate, from subcordate 
to shortly cuneate at the base, 4 to 9 cm. long, half as broad: 
heads cymose, the peduncles rather short, 2 to 2.5 em. long, 
much exceeded by the leaves. — Gen., 2, 364. Andrieuxia quiten- 
sis, Benth., Pl. Hartw., 206.— Andes of Ecuador, Hartweg, no. 
1142, Hall, Couthouy. 
++ + Outer bracts of the involucre elongated, the inner short: species of Cen- 
tral Brazil. 
23. G. KuNTHIANA, Baker. Erect perennial pubescent herb: 
leaves petiolate, ovate, serrate, the upper alternate: involucre 1 to 
1.2 cm. in diameter; outer bracts oblong, large, unequal, acute, 1.2 
to 2.4 em. long: ligules 10 to 15.— Baker in Mart. FI. Bras., 6, 
pt. 3,172. Gymnopsis kunthiana, Gardner in Hook. Lond. jour. 
bot., 7, 292.— Dry mountainous regions near Conceicdéo Goyaz, 
Brazil, Gardner, no. 3846. | 
* * * Heads and involucres as in the last group: leaves (all opposite) narrowly 
lanceolate: pappus none: South American. 
+ Pedicels bracteolate. 
24. G. corsenu, Klatt. Finely and cinereously appressed- 
pubescent: leaves rather small: branches terminated by 3-headed 
cymes; pedicels long and slender, bearing above the middle two 
subulate bractlets; heads 1.2 to 1.5 em. broad exclusive of the 16 
to 20 narrow linear rays. — Klatt in Goebel, Pflanzenbiologische 
schilderungen, 2, 49. — Dry slopes near the small town of Muru 
chies, Venezuela, K. Goebel. 
+ + Pedicels naked. 
25. G. nirsura, Klatt. Branching shrub, scarcely or not at all 
canescent: leaves long-lanceolate, caudate-attenuate, obtusish at the 
base, 7 em. long, 1.5 em. broad, bullate-rugose above, veiny and 
pubescent beneath: ligules about 12, oblong, 5 mm. broad. — Klatt 
in Engl. Jahrb., 8, 42 (1886).— Among shrubs, borders of woods, 
Tungu-ragua, Ecuador, altitude 2,200 m., Lehmann, October, 1879, 
no. 360 a. 
KK eon : 4 the tips 
sikh mertrtode's uedarales lang bkrss Oblong cc ollie, saath 1am 
: in texture and hirsute : perennial herb. 
_-- 26. G. parKrysonu, Hemsl. Erect, coarsely pubescent and 
