THE GENUS ESPELETIA 
Leaf margins flat or slightly revolute, the 
blades 7 to 12 mm. wide; inflorescence 
openly corymbose or paniculate. 
Heads 12 mm, broad, their pubescence 
brown, short. 11. E. pannosa. 
Heads 20 to 25 mm. broad, their pubes- 
cence white, very long. 12. E. floccosa. 
Leaf blades evidently broadest above the 
middle, conspicuously narrowed at the 
base. 
Leaves sericeous beneath, with short ap- 
pressed hairs; heads about 8 mm. broad. 13. E. paltonioides. 
Leaves more or less lanuginous beneath, 
with loose hairs; heads more than 
8 mm. broad. 
Leaves in age glabrous on the upper 
surface or sparsely pubescent. 
Heads 25 mm. broad; leaf blades nar- 
rowly oblong, attenuate at the 
apex, slightly narrowed below; in- 
volucral bracts glanduliferous but 
nearly without pubescence. 14. E. Undenii. 
Heads about 12 mm. broad; leaf 
blades elliptic, attenuate below to 
a winged petiole; involucral bracts 
copiously pilose. 15. E. hracteosa. 
Leaves copiously lanuginous on the 
upper surface. 
Involucral bracts ovate or elliptic- 
ovate, sparsely pilose outside. 16. E. corymbosa. 
Involucral bracts lanceolate, densely 
pilose outside. 17. E. funckii. 
I. EsPELETiA BANKSIAEFOLIA Schultz Bip. & Ettingh. ; Wedd. in Cast. 
Exped. Amer. Sud Bot. i: 67. 1855 
Type locality: Sierra Nevada de Merida, Venezuela, at an alti- 
tude of 3,500 meters. Type collected by Funck and Schlim (no. 
1550).^ 
This differs from all other species in having denticulate leaves. 
Weddell stated that he had seen only a fragment of the plant. It is 
more than possible that it has been referred to the wrong genus. 
