MARCH, 1900. PLANIVE UTOWANA: MILLSPAUGH. 105 



ELEPHANTOPUS TOMENTOSUS Linn. Sp. PI. 814. 



E. scaber Linn. Sandy fields near Caguas, Porto Rico (194); 

 mountain woods back of Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (552); and 

 fields near San Domingo city (782). 



AGERATUM CONYZOIDES Linn. Sp. PI. 839. 



Moist ditches at Caguas, Porto Rico (208); and near Port Anto- 

 nio, Jamaica (884, 962). 



EUPATORIUM CONYZOIDES Vahl. Symb. Bot. 3:96. 



Rich soil at Caguas, Porto Rico (203, 216); in the environs of 

 San Domingo city (840, 857); El Caney (1035), bay shores near Santi- 

 ago de Cuba (1004), and on the tableland above The Creek, Cayman 

 Brae (1187), Old fields near San Miguel, Cozumel (1489). 



EUPATORIUM FCENICULACEUM Willd. Sp. PL 3:1750. 



Artemisia capillifolia Lam. Among the coast shrubbery at Peder- 

 nales Point, Isle of Pines (1410). 



EUPATORIUM GUADALUPENSE Spreng. Syst. 3:414. 



E. paniculatum Schrad. Moist grounds near Port Antonio, 

 Jamaica (902). Old pasture at Caguas, Porto Rico (224). 



EUPATORIUM HEBEBOTRYA Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2:95. 



Moist soil near the Caleta, Cozumel (1510), where it is called 

 ^'Xtokabal," which may be freely translated "Bleeding Cherry," 

 though the application is not so evident as that of Maya plant names 

 in general. The plant here grows as a tree with a trunk 5 to 10 cm. 

 in diameter, and a height of 3-8 meters. A decoction of the bark, 

 leaves and flowers is used as a domestic remedy for gonorrhoea. 



EUPATORIUM IV^EFOLIUM (Linn.) Syst. PI. ed. x:i2O5. 



In the arid, stony scrubland south of Progreso, Yucatan (1688). 



Eupatorium Klattii sp. nov. 



Slender, erect, slightly strigose-villous above, branches slender, 

 ascending; leaves sharply serrate except the truncate base, not 

 glandular-dotted, trinerved, cuneate acuminate, strigose-hairy be- 

 neath, heads few, i2-flowered, short pedicelled, receptacle globose, 

 involucral scales rounded and ciliolate at the tip all alike, green 3- 

 stiiate, the interior longer, achenium faintly angled, smooth between, 

 not scabrous on the angles. Named in honor of trie late Prof. Dr. 

 F. W. Klatt. 



Near E. conyzoides Vahl., from which it strongly differs in its 

 slender habit, ascending densely foliate branches with a simple few- 

 flowered corymb at the tips, its smaller heads and smooth achenia. 

 Branches 10-25 cm., internodes 1-3 cm., petioles .5-1 cm., leaves 

 2.5 x 4 - 3 x 4.5 cm., corymbs 6-i8-flowered, peduncles .5-1 cm., pedi- 

 cels .5-1 cm., heads 6-7 mm. long, 2-3 mm broad, achenia 3 x.3 mm. 

 (in E. conyzoides 4 x .5 mm.) Shore of Santiago Bay, Cuba (1126). 



EUPATORIUM REPANDUM Willd. Sp. PI. 3:1767. 



Woodlands on the mountain back of Charlotte Amalia, St. 

 Thomas (532). 



