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describes in his Studies the first one as a species, which, 

 indeed, it may be. Consequently I have to describe the second 

 as a species, too, for it differs as amply from V. incequiserrata 

 as does the first. It seems to me more advisable to describe 

 a new species, even though not a very striking one, than 

 to reduce another without very strong reasons. 



A few words about the characteristics of the now more 

 narrowly delimitated V. inceqtiiserrata. Leaves broadly lan- 

 ceolate, 9 cm long, 2,5 cm wide, narrowed at base, acute, sharp- 

 ly serrate, fulvo-cincereous beneath, not conspicuously reti- 

 culated. Heads 15-flowered. Involucres 7 8 mm long, 

 4,5 mm broad, inner scales somewhat elongated. 



An interesting form (?) of this is in the Kew Herbarium, 

 having lanceolate, entire leaves, 7 cm long, 1,45 cm wide. 



Yernoiiia linguaefolia Ekman n. sp. 



Tabula nostra I, fig. 6 (folium). 



Suffrutex vel herba perennis, certe metralis et ultra. 

 Caulis (cujus pars superior tantum adest) erectus, inferne 

 lignosus, diam. 3,5 mm, simplex, superne ramosus, teres, 

 striatus, inferne subglaber, superne brevissime appresso- 

 -tomentosus, sat crebre foliatus. Folia alterna, patentia, 

 breviter petiolata, petiolo fere 2 mm longo, tomentello; la- 

 minae late lineari-oblongae, anguste linguseformes (unde no- 

 men!), 9,5 cm longae, 1,8 cm lata?, apice rotundatse, obtusse, 

 basi rotundatse, membranacese, plana?, margines versus reti- 

 culato-rugosae, integrse, obscure crenulatae, supra olivaceo- 

 -virides, levissime scaberulae, obsolete hispidulo-puberulae, sub- 

 tus discolores, tomento brevissimo, rufo-cinereo, costa ner- 

 visque utriusque lateris numero ad 15 angulo subrecto ex- 

 euntibus, demum sursum arcuatis, margines versus reticu- 

 latim anastomosantibus, subtus pulchre prominentibus. In- 

 florescentia cymoso-scorpioidea, ambitu late obpjTamidata, 

 1,5 dm longa et totidem lata, diffusa, cymis ad 15 cm longis, 

 inferne simplicibus, ad medium ssepe divaricatim ramosis, 

 leviter recurvis, circ. 15-cephalis, calathidiis inferne spatio 

 circ. 1,5 cm longo disjunctis, superne approximatis; bracteis 

 foliaceis, inferioribus folia aBquantibus, superioribus gra- 

 datim minoribus, calathidiis semper conspicue longioribus. 



