Paepalanthus gentlei Moldenke

Paepalanthus gentlei Moldenke, sp. nov
vStems simple, 3-4 cm. long, leafy; leaves dull-green, thin, plane, broadly linear, 2-4.5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide at the middle, attenuate to the sharply acute apex, ampliate-clasping and thin-membranous at base, fenestrate with prominulent lines or dots, very sparsely strigillose or piiose-ciliolate, soon glabrescent; peduncles fasciculate at apex of stem, 4—10, 3-8.5 cm. long, 3-costulate, slightly twisted, glabrate; sheaths rather loose, 10-15 mm. long, striatulate, very minutely strigillose, soon glabrescent, the blade attenuate-acuminate and sparingly piloseciliate; heads gray, cylindric-elongate, 3-7 mm. long, about 3 mm. in diameter; outer involucral bractlets stramineous, elliptic-obovate, acuminate, ciliolate, the inner ones similar, but darkerbrown; receptacle pilose; receptacular bractlets light-brown, narrowly obovate, acute, pilose on the back; florets minute; staminate florets: about two-thirds as long as the receptacular bractlets; sepals 3, light-brown, narrowly spatulate, acute, ciliate; petal tube hyaline; filam elongate; anthers 3, white, roundish; staminate florets: sepals Free, gray-hyaline, oblong, blunt, glabrous; petals 3, hyaline, narrowly oblong, rounded and ciliolate abo Light-
yellow, cancellate, the striae minutely puberulent.
Caule elongato erecto folioso; foliis planis; capitulis solitariis griseis cylindrico elon( floribus trimeris.
Type collected at Maskall, British Honduras, in December, 1933, Percy GenlU 992 herb N. V. Bot. Card. >.
Distribution: Known only from the type collection.