48o 
PAUL C. STANDLEY 
In the Paramo de las Rosas, State of Trujillo, at an altitude of 
3,200 meters, Doctor Jahn collected another plant which somewhat 
resembles this, the leaves being slightly broader and glabrous on the 
upper surface. Unfortunately this specimen is without flowers. It is 
doubtless an undescribed species. 
Fig. 5. Espeletia jahnii. Paramo Malpaso, State of Tachira, Venezuela. 
Photo by Dr. A. Jahn. 
II. Espeletia pannosa sp. nov. 
Caudex short, about 9 cm. long, 8 cm. wide at the crown, from a 
very thick ligneous root, bearing very numerous erect leaves; radical 
leaves broadly linear, of uniform or nearly uniform width throughout, 
except for the slightly dilated point of attachment, 16 to 30 cm. long, 
7 to 8 mm. wide, coriaceous and rigid, the margins slightly or strongly 
revolute, obtuse to acute at the apex, densely covered on the upper 
surface with long, straight but somewhat matted, silvery white 
hairs, densely tomentose beneath with long, matted, white or slightly 
yellowish hairs, the midrib very broad and prominent beneath, the 
lateral nerves not apparent; flowering stem 45 cm. high or more, 
