Porophyllum maritimum Brandeg.

Porophyllum maritimum Brand. Zoe 5 : 162. 1903
A perennial, fruticose at the base; stem about 2 dm. high, divaricately branched, striate, glaucous; leaves sessile, terete, fleshy, 2-3 cm. long, acuminate, with 2-4 glands; heads terminating the short branches, or solitary in the upper axils; peduncles 2-4 cm. long; involucre oblong, very glaucous, 10-12 mm. high; bracts 5, oblong, obtuse, with a double Une of oblong or linear glands, purple-tinged, at last reflexed; floweres 15-20; corollas 7 mm. long, ochroleucous with dark streaks on the throat; tube shorter than throat; achenes 8 mm. long, tapering at the ape.v, hispidulous with yellow hairs; pappus 7 mm. long, yellow, tinged with rose; bristles hispidulous.
Type locality: Between Cabo San Lucas and San Jos^ del Cabo, Lower California.
Distribution: Southern Lower California.

Porophyllum porfyreum Rose & Standley, sp. nov
A shrub, with slender spreading slightly angled branches; leaves linear-filiform, 4-6 cm. long, about 1 mm. wide; heads solitary at the ends of the branches; peduncles 2-4 cm. long, slightly thickened upwards; involucre campanulate, about 10 mm. high and 7 mm. broad; bracts elliptic, obtuse, light-brown, tinged with purple, striate, with small oblong, scattered glands; corollas hispidulous, 6 mm. long, purplish, the lanceolate lobes margined with yellow; tube longer than the elongate-furmelform throat; achenes 7 mm. long, hispidulous; pappus tinged with purple, 5 mm. long; bristles hispidulous.
Tvpe collected at San Jose del Cabo. Lower California, March 26, 1911, Rose 1647S (U. S. Nat. Herb.).