Pectis purpurea var. lancifolia (Greenm.) Keil

Pectis lancifolia (Greenman) Rydberg, sp. nov
Pedis sinaloensis lancifolia Greenman, Proc. Am. Acad. 40: 50. 1904.
An aimual; stem 2-4 dm high, puberulent, purplish, with ascending branches; leaves lanceolate, 2-3 cm. long, 4—6 mm. wide, hirtellous on the upper surface and the midrib beneath, acute, entire, with 1-6 pairs of bristles towards the base; glands scattered; heads solitary in the forks; peduncles 7-10 cm. long; involucre turbinate, 5 mm. high, 6-7 mm. broad; bracts 8 or 9, oblong, abruptly short-acuminate, membranous-margined, pinkish, minutely puberulent; ray -flowers 8 or 9; ligules golden-yellow or at first copper-colored beneath, about 7 mm. long and 2 mm. wide; disk-flowers more than 20; corollas nearly 5 mm. long; achenes 4 mm. long, hirsutulous; squamellae of the disk-flowers about 5, with a squamellate, lanceolate, lacerate base, produced into a scabrous awn as long as the corolla; those of the ray-flowers 2, similar or with a few minute additional squamellae.
Type locality: Between Concepcion and Acaponeta, Tepic. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.