18 ARKIV FOR BOTANIK. BAND 13. NIO 15. 



only in having more elongated and spreading scales with 

 recurved tips. 



A brief description of V. Wrightii may be of some 

 use: Branches densely tomentose, hairs brown, spreading. 

 Leaves obovate-oblong, 8 9 cm long by 4 cm wide, firm, 

 not coriaceous, glabrous and smooth above, finely pubescent 

 at the veins beneath, remotely denticulate with spinulose 

 teeth at the margin. Heads about 17-flowered. Involucres 

 7 mm high, about 8 9 mm broad in press-dried specimens, 

 its scales deltoid, spreading with short, subulate tips, brown- 

 ish-green. Pappus 6 mm long, sordid-tawny, not at all 

 purplish. 



Veriionia fallax Gleason. 



Vernonia fallax Gleason, 1913, p. 324. 



Hab. in Cuba: prov. Santa Clara, in montibus Trinidad, 

 ad rupes, alt. 500 m, 12. 3. 10, Britton et Wilson n. 5478. 



I have not seen this species, but from the description 

 it must be a rather good one, though closely related to V. 

 incequiserrata Sch.-Bip. 



Yernonia inaequiserrata Sch.-Bip. 



Tabula nostra I, fig. 4 (folium). 



Vernonia rubricaulis Grisebach, 1862, p. 511 (forma foliis latioribus) 

 non H. B. K. 



Vernonia incequiserrata Schultz-Bipontinus, 1863, p. 232 ; Grisebach, 

 1866, p. 144, excl. var. ; Gleason, 1906 b, p. 183; 1913, p. 321. 



Pappi setae interiores subpersistentes, numero 55, te- 

 nues, filiformes, albidse, quam exteriores distinctae, spathu- 

 latse circ. 12-plo longiores. Corolla 10,5 mm longa, tubo 

 sensim dilatato long. 2 / 3 corolla?, glabro, limbi laciniis apice 

 subtus papillosis. Antherse 3,5 mm longae, ligula long. l j 7 

 antherse, auriculis breviter apiculato-contractis. 



Hab. in Cuba orientali. Sept. 1859 Jan. 1860, Wright 

 n. 285 prior (Bss, CD, orig. spec, D, DC, G, K, KU, P). 



I long endeavoured to keep within the limits of V. inacequi- 

 serrata its two varieties, distinguished already by Grisebach, 

 viz. var. angustifolia and var. obtusifolia. However, Gleason 



