Schistocarpha pedicellata Klatt

Schistocarpha pedicellata (Sdiultz-Bip.) Klatt, Leopoldina 23: 146. 1887.
Srurt.laena pedicellata Schultz-Bip.; Klatt, Leopoldina 23: 147, as synonym. 1887.
A perennial herb; stem I in. high 01 more, Angled, striate, hirsutewith coarse flat hairs and glandular on the Upper part; petioles 2-8 cm. long, winged only on the upper part, connate*
rlntphu at the base; leaf bladet broadly o ifa to iitx cwdate, i audate acuminate at the apex, abruptly contracted into a cuneate-decurTenl bow, coarselj dentate, with mucronate teeth,
Vol.. mi; U, 1'akt I, 1927] 303 coarsely hirsute on both sides, triple-ribbed; inflorescence paniculate, leafy below; branches glandular and hirsute, in age often elongate; involucre 6 mm. high, 7-10 mm. broad; bracts more or less purplish, hirsute, imbricate in 3 series, most or all of them acute; paleae of the receptacle 4-5 mm. long, 3-cleft, the middle lobe bristle-like, much longer; ray-flowers 15-20; corolla-tube 4 mm. long, puberulent, the ligule white, nearly 1 cm. long, 4-5-nerved, 3-4toothed, often 2 mm. wide; disk-flowers many; corolla 5 mm. long, the tube 2 mm. long, slender, abruptly expanding into the cylindro-funnelform throat, the lobes ovate, 0.5 mm. long, acute; achenes glabrous, 1.5 mm. long, black; bristles white, 4 mm. long.
Type locality: Dos Tuentes, Mexico. Distribution: Veracruz.