E. L. EKMAN, WEST INDIAN VERNONL&J. 15 



fima remotiuscula, summa congesta, 9 11 -flora. Invo- 

 lucrum cylindricum, 8 9 mm longum, 3 mm latum, basi 

 rotundatum, squamis imbricatis circ. 6-seriatis, extimis ova- 

 to-triangularibus, mucronulatis, marginibus apiceque floccoso- 

 -tomentosis, intermediis oblongis, obtusis, intimis elongatis, 

 ligulatis, velut intermedia? subglabris, obtusiusculis, omni- 

 bus obsoletissime carinatis, minutissime ciliolatis, fuscis. 

 Pappi seta? interiores persistentes, numero 40, firmse, filiformes, 

 6,5 mm longse, albo-stramineae, exterioribus distinctis, spathu- 

 lato-linearibus circ. 7-plo longiores. Flores desunt, specimi- 

 nibus visis nempe fructus tempore collectis. Acha?nium 

 obscure tetragonum, subcompressum, inferne obsolete 10- 

 costatum, glaberrimum, glandulosum, 3 mm longum. 



, Hab. in Cuba orientali: C. Weight, ami. 1856 7, sub 

 num. 284 (Bss, D, DC, spec. orig.). 



The most striking feature of the new species is its very 

 narrow, cylindrical involucres and, connected with this, the 

 small number of flowers in the heads. I did not know any 

 other species of the subsection having these characters, until 

 Gleason in his Studies described a V. purpurata, having 

 also cylindrical involucres and very few-flowered heads. 

 Yet the two species are not identical, as proved by the follow- 

 ing differences. The leaves of V. angusticeps are membrana- 

 ceous, not heavy, rigid, coriaceous , flat, not strongly 

 rugose above , not shining, puberulent at the whole of the 

 lower surface, not only along the veins beneath ; the brac- 

 teal leaves are present below all heads; the heads are 9 11- 

 -flowered, not 8-flowered; the involucres are 8 9 mm high, 

 not 6 mm high, their scales are rounded at the tips, short- 

 ly apiculated, not sharply acute , brownish, not purple- 

 -brown at their exposed tips. 



I think the reason why the species has not been described 

 long before is that it is so poorly represented in herbaria. 

 I only saw it in those of Geneva. 



Yernonia viminalis Gleason. 



Tabula nostra I, fig. 1 (folium et cyma). 

 Vernonia viminalis Gleason, 1906 b, p. 184; 1913, p. 321. 



Pappi setae interiores persistentes, numero 40, tenues, 

 filiformes, exterioribus distinctis circ. 10-plo longiores. Co- 



