Pectis capillipes (Benth.) Hemsl.

Pectis erecta Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. 40: 57. 1904
A perennial, with a slender woody caudex; stem erect, 1-2 dm. high, branching above, pulverulent; leaves linear, 1.5-3 cm. long. 1-2 mm. wide, pale-green, firm, acute, with 1 or 2 rows of glands on each side and 2-5 pairs of bristles towards the base; heads solitary at the ends of the branches; peduncles 3.5-6 cm. long; involucre 5-6 mm. high, 5-6 mm. broad, turbinate; bracts 5, oblong or oblanceolate, finely ciliate at the rounded apex; ligules oblong, 5-7 mm. long, yellow, turning crimson; disk-corollas 5 mm. long; achenes hispidulous: pappus of the disk-flowers of 6-8, of the ray-flowers of 2 or 3 bristle-like, hispidulous squamellae, more or less paleaceous and connate at the base, and 4-8 shorter ones.
Type locality: Grenada, Nicaragua. Distribution: Nicaragua.

Pectis capillipes (Benth.) Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot 2: 225. 1881.
Lorenlia capillipes Benth. in Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1852: 70. 1852.
A suffruticose perennial; stem branched, erect, 7-12 cm. high, scarcely puberulent; leaves linear, ridged, 1.5-2 cm. long, about 2 mm. wide, with strong midrib and several bristles at the base; glands many; heads solitary in the forks; peduncles slender, 3-5 cm. long; involucre turbinate; bracts 5, oblong, obtuse; ray-flowers 5; pappus of the disk-flowers of 5 or 6 stouter bristles, somewhat dilated at the base, and many shorter ones ; those of the ray-flowers somewhat fewer. (Description adapted from that of Bentham.)
Type locality: Chinotega, Segovia, Guatemala. Distribution: Guatemala.