ROBINSON & GREENMAN : CONTRIB. GRAY HERBARIUM. 95 
San Miguel Uspantdn, Dept. Quiche, Heyde and Lux , no. 3370 of 
Mr. J. Donnell Smith’s sets. 
var. brachypoda. Pubescence, at least on the upper part of 
the stem, spreading: pedicels very short (2 to 5 mm. in length): 
pappus none. — Guatemala, Alta Verapaz, altitude 1,300 m., von 
Tuerckhemi , no. 852 of Mr. J. Donnell Smith’s sets; also in Colima, 
S. W. Mexico, Palmer , no. 1223 (coll, of 1891). 
var. macrophylla. Pubescence of the stem copious, spread¬ 
ing : leaves (1.5 dm. long, 8 to 10 cm. broad) much larger than in 
the other forms of the species, subcrenately serrate : pappus none. 
— Venezuela near Tovar, at 1,000 m. altitude, Fendler , no. 686. 
12. G. costaricensis, Benth. Habit, foliage, and pubescence 
as in G. patens'. heads larger (disk-flowers about 50); involucre 
campanulate: pubescence fine, appressed or suba’ppressed: rays 
about 10: achenes of the disk-flowers destitute of pappus but 
sometimes crowned with an obscure ring or rim. — Benth. acc. to 
Klatt, Bull. soc. bot. Belg., 31, 199, at least as to pi. of Oersted 
(Pittier’s no. 2614, referred to this species by Klatt, is, in herb. 
Klatt, Baltimora scolosperum , Steetz!). G. rudbeckioides , Hemsl., 
Biol. Cent.-Amer. Bot., 2, 163, in part, probably not HBK. Gym- 
nopsis? costaricensis , Benth. in Oerst., Vidensk. meddel., 1852, 
p. 90. G. vulcanica , Steetz in Seem. Bot. herald, 157. Aspilia 
costaricensis , Klatt, 1. c., 201, as to synon. and Pittier’s no. 3276 
in part. — Costa Rica, Aguacate, and Ujaras, Oersted ; Rodeo de 
Pacaca, Pittier , no. 3276 in part, San Francisco de Guadalupe, 
Tonduz , nos. 7251, 7288; Rio Maria near S. Jose, Tonduz , no. 
7271 ; Panama Boquete, Veraguas, Seemann , no. 1588. 
= = Pappus none : Peruvian. 
13. G. rudbeckioides, HBK. Of habit and foliage of the 
last two species but with short petioles (4 to 6 mm. long), spread¬ 
ing pubescence, and (ex icon.) more axillary or irregular (less 
definitely corymbose) inflorescence. — Nov. gen. et spec., 4, 219, 
t. 374. — Temperate regions, Agavaca, Peru, Humboldt and Bon- 
pland. Not seen by the writers, who have been unable to match 
satisfactorily the original description and figure of this species with 
any Mexican or Central American plant. 
= = = A definite pappus present, consisting of several fimbriate scales. 
14. ? G. subflexuosa, Benth. and Hook. f. Habit, foliage, pu¬ 
bescence, and inflorescence much as in G. patens , from which we are 
