Sinclairia deppeana (Less.) Rydb.

Sinclairia deppeana (Less.) Rydberg
Andromachia Deppeana Less. Linnaea 6: 401. 1831.
Liabum Deppeanum Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 232. 1881.
A shrub, with terete, striate, glabrous, purplish branches; petioles more or less darkhispid, about 2.5 cm. long; leaf-blades membranous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at each end, mueronate-serrulate, 7-10 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, glabrous and smooth above, white-tomentose beneath, 3-ribbed, pubescent on the ribs; inflorescence cymose-paniculate, fastigiate, leafy below, with many heads and dark-hirsute spreading branches; involucre turbinate, 15 mm. high, 15 mm. broad; bracts imbricate in 3 series, obsoletely ciliate, pilose, apiculate, the outer ovate, acute, the inner much longer, linear or spatulate-linear, rounded at the apex; rayflowers about 10; corolla-tube 4 mm. long, the ligule 5-nerved, 8-9 mm. long, 4-toothed; disk-corollas about 10 mm. long, the lobes linear-lanceolate, spreading, 2 mm. long; achenes pubescent; pappus-bristles yellow, 10 mm. long, the outer squamellae subulate.
Type locality: Cuesta Grande del Ja[la]cingo, Veracruz. Distribution : Veracruz.