Pectis multiflosculosa (DC.) Sch. Bip.

Pectis grandiflora Klatt, Leopoldina 1895: Bot. Beibl. 6. 1895
A decumbent perennial; stem branched, 3-10 dm. long, glabrous or puberulent along decurrent lines; branches erect; leaves linear, acute, mucronate, 2-4 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, thick, with 3-6 pairs of bristles near the base; glands small, close together in a single marginal row on each side; heads terminal, solitary; peduncles 2-3 cm. long, curved, angled; involucre campanulate, 9-10 mm. high, 5-8 mm. broad; bracts 5, broadly oblong, manystriate, ciliate, keeled to the apex; ray-flowers 5; ligules oblong, about 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, at first reddish; disk-flowers 30-35; corollas 5-6 mm. long; achenes 6 mm. long, shortsetose; squamellae 12-15, subulate, scabrous, awn-like, the longer 4-5 mm. long.
Type loc.i.ity: Hato-Viejo, Costa Rica. Distributiom: Costa Rica and Panama.

Pectis arenaria Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 110. 1844
? Lorentea multiflosculosa DC. Prodr. 5: 102. 1836.
? Pedis tnuUiflosctdosa Schultz-Bip.; Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 309. 1857.
Pedis bibracleata Klatt, Leopoldina 20: 92. 1884. '
A prostrate perennial; stem thick, creeping, branched, 3-10 dm. long, glabrous; leaves linear or linear-spatulate, 1-4 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, rounded at the apex, slightly connate at the base, tliick, pale beneath, with revolute margins and 3-7 pairs of bristles below; glands minute, close, in a single marginal row on each side; heads solitary in the axils; peduncles erect, 1-7 cm. long, compressed, angled; involucre campanulate, 8-12 mm. high, 5-10 mm. broad; bracts 5-S, flat, striate, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse or acute, scarcely keeled below; ray-flowers 5-S; ligules oblong, 6-7 mm. long; disk-flowers 15-80; corollas 5-6 mm. long; tube 1 mm. long; achenes 6-7 mm. long, compressed, striate, glossy, glabrous or sparingly hirsutulous; squamellae 10-20, linear-subulate, attenuate into an awn, unequal, the longer 4 mm. long.
Type locality: Acapulco, Guerrero.
Distribution: Sinaloa to Guerrero; Salvador (?); also in Ecuador (?).