Pectis multiceps Urb.

Pectis multiceps Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 277. 1907
A diffuse annual; stem branched from the base, 2-6 cm. long, cespitose, densely leafy; leaves linear, 1-2 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, connate at the base, with 3-5 pairs of bristles near the base; glands rather few, scattered, inconspicuous; heads sessile at the ends of the branchlets; involucre 5-6 mm. high, 2-2.5 mm. broad; bracts 5, linear-oblong, obtuse at the apex; ray-flowers 5; ligules about 2 mm. long; disk-flowers 10-12; corollas nearly 3 mm. long; achenes 3 mm. long; squamellae of the disk-flowers 5, subequal, lanceolate, aristatc-acuminate, those of the ray-flowers 2 or with an additional much smaller third squamella.
Type locality: Near Barrabas, between Puerto Plata and Santiago, Santo Domingo.
Distributio.v: Hispaniula. 200