THE GENUS ESPELETIA 
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9. EsPELETiA SPICATA Schultz Bip.; Wedd. in Cast. Exped. Amer. Sud 
Bot. i: 65. 1855 
Type locality: Sierra Nevada de Merida, Venezuela, at an 
altitude of 4,500 meters. Type collected by Linden (no. 400). 
Collected by Doctor Jahn on the Sierra Nevada de Merida, at an 
altitude of 3,000 to 4,000 meters (no. 158); on Pan de Azucar, Cor- 
dillera de Merida, at an altitude of 4,000 meters (no. 237) ; and in 
the Paramo de Timotes, State of Tachira, at an altitude of 3,000 to 
3,500 meters (no. 149). In the first specimen the inflorescence is 
lacking, but the leaves show that it is of this species. The second 
specimen bears only part of an inflorescence, with a few heads about 
15 mm. in diameter; the leaves are 27 to 40 cm. long and 18 to 27 mm. 
wide; and the whole plant is densely woolly with fulvous hairs. The 
third specimen shows a complete inflorescence about 95 cm. high; 
the stem is very stout and densely lanuginous; the peduncles average 
about 5 cm. in length, and the heads 3 to 3.5 cm. in diameter. 
10. Espeletia jahnii sp. nov. 
Leaves all basal, 18 to 35 cm. long, 3 to 6 mm. wide (excluding 
the strongly revolute margins), linear or nearly so, acute or acuminate 
at the apex, widened at the sheathing base, coriaceous, the margins 
strongly revolute, densely clothed on the upper surface with long, 
white, nearly straight wool when young but becoming glabrate in age, 
densely tomentose on the lower surface, the bases of the leaves more 
densely furnished with wool; flowering stems stout, 20 to 25 cm. high, 
naked up to the inflorescence, covered by a dense, matted, slightly 
fulvous wool; bracts of the inflorescence 2 to 5.5 cm. long, similar 
to the leaves but broader; inflorescence corymbose, of 12 to 15 crowded, 
short-pedunculate heads, these about i cm. in diameter; involucral 
bracts few, lanceolate, obtuse or acutish, densely covered with long 
wool; paleae of the disk 3.5 mm. long, linear, slightly broadened up- 
ward, densely glandular near the apex; rays wanting; styles much 
exserted. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 602482, collected in 
the Paramo del Batallon, State of Tachira, Venezuela, at an altitude 
of 3,000 meters, in March, 191 1, by Dr. Alfredo Jahn (no. 155). 
This is well distinguished from all the other species by the very 
narrow leaves which are soon glabrate on the upper surface and 
strongly revolute. The flowering stems, too, are lower than in most 
species. It is not possible to determine from the specimens whether 
the plant has an elongate, erect caudex. 
