214 FLORA OF BRAZIL. 



ovatis obtusis extus rufo-tomentosis, intimis lineari-ob- 

 longis obtusis extus ad apicem rufo-tomentosis, achcenio 

 turbinato villosissimo, pappi serie externa paleacea longi 

 acuminata, interna complanata serrulata acuta duplo et 

 ultra longiore. 

 Hab. Near Santa Rosa, District of the Rio Preto, Province 

 of Pernambuco. September, 1839. 



Frutex 3-4-pedalis. Folia 2-2^ poll, longa, 15-18 lin. lata. 

 Involucrum oblongo-cylindraceum, valde deciduum. Corolla 

 glabra, purpurea. Pappus duplex, persistens lucens, albidus, 

 paleis externis angustis acuminatis, intimis triplo fere lon- 

 gioribus complanatis margine scabris. 



I was at first inclined to refer this plant to the genus Stil- 

 pnopappus, from the decided paleaceous nature of both series 

 of the pappus, but a more attentive examination has induced 

 me to place it in the present section of Vernonia.* 

 4802. V. laxa; herbacea, ramosa, ramis elongatis angulato- 

 striatis parce pubescenti-tomentosis, foliis sessilibus late 

 linearibus acutis glanduloso-denticulatis supra glabriusculis 

 subtus fulvo-tomentosis, ramis floridis axillaribus folio 

 longioribus foliolosis in panic ulam laxam dispositis, capi- 

 tulis pcdicellatis iO-:lo T ls, involucri squamis imbricatis gla- 

 briusculis oblongis obtusis, achsenio 10-striato parce piloso, 

 pappi serie externa brevi. 

 Hab. Near Formigas, in the Sertaoof the Province of Minas 

 Geraes. July, 1840. 



Herba 3-5-pedalis. Folia 3 poll, longa, 4 lin. lata. Invo- 

 lucrum subcylindraceum, squamis ad apicem coloratis. co- 

 rolla glabra, violacea. Pappus argenteus. 



* This plant is evidently closely allied to V. speciosa, Less. DC n. 24 , 

 which, according to Martius Flora, 1841 v. 2, Beibl. p. 109, (Herb. Fl. B r> 

 n. 691), is the same as Strnpkopapus tricolor, DC, and is there referred to 

 Stilpnopappus, under the name of S. patulus. The habit is very unb £ 

 that of Stilpnopappus, and the pappus very different from tbat of roo s 

 Vernonia. Probably De Candolle's genus, Slrophopappus, should be re- 

 stored to include the above two plants as well as Gardner's n. 3259 a° 

 4189, both of them new species from the Province of Goyaz. — (G. B.) 



