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but smaller; branches of the inflorescence all alternate, the bracts 
resembling the cauline leaves but smaller; heads very numerous, on 
slender peduncles 2 to 4 cm. long, these viscid and rather sparsely 
tomentose with long loose whitish hairs and shorter brown ones; 
heads 15 mm. broad in age, subglobose, the outer palese of the re- 
ceptacle and the involucral bracts reflexed ; involucra'l bracts narrowly 
lanceolate to narrowly obovate, acute, pilose outside with brown hairs, 
glabrous within; palese of the disk cuneate-obovate, acutish, densely 
viscid-pilose outside near the apex; corolla tube sparsely villous out- 
side; achenes not seen. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 602351, collected on 
the Sierra Nevada de Merida, State of Merida, Venezuela, at an 
altitude of 3,000 to 4,000 meters, in January, 191 1, by Dr. Alfredo 
Jahn (no. 157). Additional material of the same collection, consisting 
of a caudex and basal tuft of leaves, is mounted on sheet no. 602352. 
Fig. 4. Espeletia spicata. Sierra Nevada de Merida, Venezuela. Photo by 
Dr. A. Jahn. 
Espeletia grisea is evidently related to E. argentea but is dis- 
tinguished by the shorter, narrower leaves (which are less narrowed 
toward the base), the villous corolla, and the alternate branches and 
bracts of the inflorescence. The heads are too far developed to 
determine whether they are radiate or discoid. 
