Liabum subacaule Rydb.

Liabum domingense Rydberg, sp. nov
A subacaulescent perennial; leaves clustered at the base; petioles 1-5 cm. long; blades obovate or oval-spatulate, 2-6 cm. long, sinuate-denticulate, white-tomentose beneath, scabrous-hispid above, and slightly floccose when young; scape 2-3 dm. high, floccose; heads clustered at the end of the scape, short-peduncled or subsessile; involucre 8-9 mm. high and about 1 cm. broad; bracts all narrowly lanceolate, puberulent and slightly floccose, the inner caudate-attenuate; ligules 4-6 mm. long; disk-corollas 7-8 mm. long, the lobes 1 mm. long; achenes hispidulous; pappus-bristles 7-8 mm. long.
Type collected near Constanza. Santo Domingo, at an altitude of 1400 m., June 1910, von Tuerckheim 3113 fherb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).

Liabum subacaule Rydberg, sp. no v
Liabum umbellatum Schultz-Bip. Jour. Bot. 1 : 236, in part (as to description and Bertero's specimens) . 1863. Not Amellus umbellatus L. 1753.
A caulescent or subacaulescent perennial, 2-4 dm. high; scape naked or with a pair of reduced leaves at the middle, tomentose; leaves clustered at the base; petioles 1-5 cm. long; blades ovate to obovate, decurrent below, sinuate-denticulate, floccose above, white-tomentose beneath, 3-5 cm. long; heads 2-4, subsessile, clustered at the end of the scape; involucre S mm. high and 10-12 mm. broad; bracts narrowly lanceolate, slightly floccose, the inner caudateattenuate, longer than the disk, the outer gradually shorter; ligules 3-4 mm. long; corolla of the disk-flowers 10-11 mm. long, the lobes 1 mm. long; achenes unknown; pappus-bristles 6-7 mm. long.
Type collected between Petit Borgne and Mt. Casse, Haiti, August 16, 1903, Nash 502 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Hispaniola.