14 ARKIV FOR BOTANIK. BAND 13. N:0 15. 



Pappi setae interiores persistentes, numero 70, tenues, 

 filiformes, straminea?, exterioribus subfiliformibus circ. 8- 

 -plo longiores. Corolla 9 mm longa, tubo long. 3 / 4 corolla?, 

 glabro. Anthera? 3 mm longa?, ligula brevi, fere 1 j 9 long, an- 

 thera?, auriculis brevibus. in apicem obtusiusculum subito 

 contractis. 



Hab. in Cuba: Ramon de la Sagra, sine num. (KU, 

 P, orig. spec.); Wright n. 284 (KU, S), n. 2785 (G, KU). 



Vernonia purnurata Gleason. 



Vernonia purpurata Gleason, 1913, p. 322. 



Hab. in Cuba orientali: Sierra Maestro, in monte Ji- 

 quarito, alt. 1020 m, 18. 9. 06, Taylor n. 544. 



I have seen no specimens of this species. From the de- 

 scription it comes near to V. angusticeps Ekman; the differ- 

 ences will be discussed under that species. 



Vernonia angusticeps Ekman n. sp. 



Tabula nostra I, fig. 3 (folium et cyma). 



Herba suffruticosa, perennis. Caulis (pars superior tan- 

 tum adest) erectus, satis validus, verisimiliter metralis, 4 

 5 mm diam., inferne simplex, superne ramosus, teres, stri- 

 atus, superne pra?sertim pilis intricatis, cinereo-fuscis floccoso- 

 -tomentosus, densiuscule foliosus. Folia patentia-deflexa, bre- 

 viter petiolata, petiolo 3 4 mm longo, supra canaliculato, 

 floccoso-tomentoso; lamina? lanceolato-oblonga?, 8 9 cm lon- 

 ga?, 2,4 2,6 cm lata?, apice acuto-acuminata?, basi oblique 

 truncata?, firmula?, fusco-virides, integra?, margine subpla- 

 na?, remote denticulata?, supra glabriuscula?, subnitida?, sub- 

 laeves, reticulata?, subtus pallidiores, piloso-puberula?, te- 

 nuiter, tamen distincte areolata?, costa valida. subtus pulchre 

 prominente, nervis utriusque lateris numero 12 14, arcuatis. 

 exsculptis, nervulis distinctis, anastomosantibus. Inflo- 

 icscentia cjnioso-scorpioidca. satis ampla. sublucida. cymis 

 erecto-patulis, iter iterumque ramificatis, strictiusculis. maxi- 

 mis 12 cm longis, 10 15-cephalis; bracteis foliaceis, calathi- 

 diis multoties longioribus. Calathidia axillaria. sessilia, in- 



