Eremosis angusta Gleason

Eremosis angusta Gleason, sp. nov
Stems shrubby, branched, closely and finely cinereous-tomentulose; leaf-blades thin, firm, elliptic-lanceolate, the largest 7 cm. long, 18 mm. wide, acute, entire, gradually narrowed to an acute base, minutely scabrous-puberulent above, thinly tomentulose and resinous beneath, with prominent veins; petioles tomentulose, 5-10 mm. long; inflorescence compact, hemispheric, 10 cm. broad, with tomentulose branches; heads 1-flowered, crowded, sessile or short-peduncled; involucre narrowly cylindric, 7-8 mm. high, straw-colored; outer scales thinly tomentose, broadly ovate to subrotund, obtuse or rounded, darker brown at tip, minutely cuspidate, with prominent midvein; inner scales prolonged, appressed, narrow, less than 1 mm. wide, acute, scarious-margined, sparsely tomentulose near the edge, minutely puberulent to almost glabrous on the back, the midvein prominent and extending into a mucro; achenes black, 2 mm. long, hirsute; pappus white, 6 mm. long, the outer series filiform, irregular in length.
Type collected at Gualan, Zacapa, Guatemala, alt. 125 meters, Kellerman 6132 (herb. Field Museum no. 195639).