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b. Rays 8 to 10, not conspicuously carinate or conduplicate: South American. 
22. G. quitensis, Bentli. and Hook. f. Shrub with rather 
copious pubescence: leaves all opposite, acuminate, from subcordate 
to shortly cuneate at the base, 4 to 9 cm. long, half as broad • 
heads cymose, the peduncles rather short, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 
much exceeded by the leaves. — Gen., 2, 364. Andrieuxia quiten¬ 
sis, Benth., PI. Ilartw., 206. — Andes of Ecuador, Hartweg, no. 
1142, Hall , Couthouy. 
++ ++ Outer bracts of the involucre elongated, the inner short: species of Cen¬ 
tral Brazil. 
23. G. kunthiana, Baker. Erect perennial pubescent herb: 
leaves petiolate, ovate, serrate, the upper alternate: involucre 1 to 
1.2 cm. in diameter; outer bracts oblong, large, unequal, acute, 1.2 
to 2.4 cm. long: ligules 10 to 15. — Baker in Mart. FI. Bras., 6, 
pt. 3, 172. Gymnoqysis kunthiana , Gardner in Hook. Lond. journ. 
bot., 7, 292. — Dry mountainous regions near Concei^do Goyaz, 
Brazil, Gardner , no. 3846. 
* * * Heads and involucres as in the last group: leaves (all opposite) narrowly 
lanceolate : pappus none : South American. 
-H- Pedicels bracteolate. 
24. G. goebelii, Klatt. Finely and cinereously appressed- 
pubescent: leaves rather small: branches terminated by 3-lieaded 
cymes; pedicels long and slender, bearing above the middle two 
subulate bractlets; heads 1.2 to 1.5 cm. broad exclusive of the 16 
to 20 narrow linear rays. — Klatt in Goebel, Pflanzenbiologische 
schilderungen, 2, 49. — Dry slopes near the small town of Muru- 
chies, Venezuela, K. Goebel. 
-t- Pedicels naked. 
25. G. hirsuta, Klatt. Branching shrub, scarcely or not at all 
canescent: leaves long-lanceolate, caudate-attenuate, obtusish at the 
base, 7 cm. long, 1.5 cm. broad, bullate-rugose above, veiny and 
pubescent beneath: ligules about 12, oblong, 5 mm. broad. — Klatt 
in Engl. Jalirb., 8, 42 (1886). — Among shrubs, borders of woods, 
Tungu-ragua, Ecuador, altitude 2,200 m., Lehmann , October, 1879, 
no. 360 a. 
* * * * Heads large, but ligules short; involucral scales oblong, the tips 
slightly squarrose ; peduncles long : leaves oblong or elliptic, sessile, harsh 
in texture and hirsute : perennial herb. 
26. G. parkin sonii, Hemsl. Erect, coarsely pubescent and 
