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PAUL C. STANDLEY 
15. Espeletia bracteosa sp. nov. 
Basal leaves numerous, 20 to 25 cm. long, 3 to 4 cm. wide in the 
broadest part, the blades elliptic, acute or acutish at the apex, long- 
attenuate at the base to a stout margined petiole, this gradually 
dilated at the base, at first abundantly lanuginous on the upper 
surface, glabrous in age, very densely matted-tomentose beneath with 
fulvous hairs, with additional long loose white lanuginous hairs, the 
midvein prominent beneath, white-woolly, the lateral veins numerous, 
parallel, conspicuous beneath, visible also on the upper surface; bases 
of the petioles densely covered with long silky fulvous hairs; flowering 
sems 40 to 50 cm. high, bearing a few small, alternate, narrowly 
lanceolate or oblanceolate leaves below the inflorescence ; inflorescence 
corymbosely branched, the branches erect or ascending, bearing 
numerous leaflike bracts 2 to 6 cm. long, these lanceolate, attenuate, 
pubescent like the leaves; branches of the inflorescence slender, 
densely lanuginous with brown hairs; peduncles 2 to 4 cm. long; heads 
rather few, about 12 mm. broad; involucral bracts oblong to linear, 
acute to attenuate, densely pilose with brown hairs; rays not seen; 
palese of the disk attenuate, densely covered above with short, stiff, 
appressed, viscid, reddish brown hairs; corolla tube densely viscid- 
pilose; achenes dark brown, smooth, sharply angled. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 602350, collected in 
the Paramo de la Cristalina, State of Trujillo, Venezuela, at an altitude 
of 2,900 meters, December 20, 1910, by Dr. Alfredo Jahn (no. 156). 
This appears to be most closely related to Espeletia corymbosa, 
but the leaves are shorter, relatively broader, and less acute, while 
the inflorescence is more open, more branched, and bears broader, 
less pubescent bracts. The corollas are densely pubescent, while for 
E. corymbosa they are figured as glabrous. 
16. Espeletia corymbosa Humb. & Bonpl. PI. Aequin. 2: 13. pi. 72. 
1809 
Espeletia rigida Humb. & Bonpl. op. cit. pi. 72, nomen nudum. 
Espeletia platylepis Schultz Bip.; Wedd. in Cast. Exped. Amer. Sud 
Bot. i: 64. 1855, aa synonym. 
Type locality : Vicinity of Almaguer, near the southern boundary 
of the State of Tolima, Colombia, at an altitude of 2,268 meters. 
Type collected by Humboldt and Bonpland. 
This species is apparently the southernmost representative of the 
genus. Weddell also refers here specimens collected by Goudot and 
by Linden (no. 1291) in the mountains near Bogota. Judging from 
Bonpland's original illustration and description the plant is not far 
