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PAUL C. STANDLEY 
Two Specimens of this are in Doctor Jahn's collections, one from 
the Paramo de Timotes, State of Tachira, at an altitude of 3,000 to 
3,500 meters (no. 152); and the other from the type locality, the 
Teta de Niquitao, the highest peak of the Sierra Nevada de Merida, 
at an altitude of 3,000 to 4,000 meters (no. 151). The common name 
is given as "frailejon de batata." The word batata (tuber or bulb) 
refers to the large tuber-like roots which, however, are not present 
upon the specimens. 
The species is distinguished by its very numerous short leaves 
which form a dense basal cluster, and by its monocephalous stems. 
Weddell says that it is the lowest plant of the genus and this is prob- 
ably true. From the specimens it can be seen that the caudex is not 
elongated and that the leaves rest upon the ground. 
Weddell states that there are one or two heads on each stem. In 
these recent specimens there is never more than one. The leaves are 
described as "acutatis" but the tips are very blunt, and Weddell so 
figures them. In Doctor Jahn's specimens the leaves are 4 to 6 cm. 
long and 5 to 10 mm. wide; the flowering stems are 6 to 30 cm. long, 
evidently elongating in age; the palese of the disk are oblong-linear, 
densely villous at the apex, and bearded at the base with long, white, 
erect hairs; the achenes, which seem not to be full developed, are about 
2.5 mm. long. 
5. EsPELETiA GRANDIFLORA Humb. & Bonpl. PL Aequin. 2: 9. pi. 70. 
1809 
Espeletia hartwegiana Schultz Bip.; Wedd. in Cast. Exped. Amer. 
Sud Bot. 1 : 62. 1855, as synonym. 
Espeletia oppositifolia Schultz Bip.; Wedd. loc. cit., as synonym. 
Type locality: Near Bogota, Colombia. Type collected by 
Bonpland. 
Illustrations: Wedd. in Cast. Exped. Amer. Sud Bot. i : pi. 15, A. 
Collected by Mr. H. Pittier in the Paramo de Buena Vista, Huila 
Group, Central Cordillera, State of Cauca, Colombia, at an altitude 
of 3,000 to 3,600 meters, in January, 1906 (no. 11 16). WeddelP 
reports several collections from Colombia and a single one from the 
Sierra Nevada de Merida, Venezuela {Linden 398, in part). 
Schultz's manuscript name hartwegiana was based, doubtless, 
upon a specimen collected by Hartweg (no. 11 37) in the Paramo de 
1 In Cast. Exped. Amer. Sud Bot. i: 63. 1855. 
