Pectis pusilla Urb.

Pectis pusilla Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 282. 1907
A prostrate or ascending annual; stem 2-3.5 cm. long, branched, retrorsely short-pilose, 4-angIed above; leaves linear, 7-15 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. wide, with 5-7 pairs of bristles along the margins from the base to near the apex; glands in a single row on each side or some scattered; heads solitary at the ends of the branches; peduncles 1-2 cm. long; involucre subcylindraceous, 6-6.5 mm. high, 3-3.5 mm. broad; bracts 5, oblong-linear, acute or obtuse, obtusely carinate on the back, glandless; ray-flowers 5; ligules oblong-elliptic; disk-flowers about 10; corollas 3.5-4 mm. long, the limb 4-toothed; achenes 3.5 mm. long, short-pilose; pappus of 25-35 bristles, very unequal, 0.5-4 mm. long, the longer often somewhat dilated at the base, scabrous-hispidulous.
Type locality: Petite Riviere de Bayonnais, Haiti. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.