E. L. EKMAN, WEST INDIAN VERNONL3E. 21 



Very near to this species comes a plant collected by 

 Eggers in Cuba, Loma del Jaguey, 22. 4. 89, n. 4982 (KU). 

 It differs in having lanceolate leaves, which are very bullate 

 and nearly glabrous beneath. The only specimen seen is 

 very imperfect. 



Vernonia Sprengeliana Sch.-Bip. 



Tabula nostra I, fig. 8 (cyma). 



Eupatorium salvifolium Bertero in sched. ap. Sprengel, 1826, p. 412. 

 Vernonia Sprengeliana Schultz-Bipontinus, 1863, p. 232; Gleason, 

 1906 b, p. 184; 1913, p. 321. 



Pappi setae interiores persistentes, numero 4550, tenues, 

 albidse, exterioribus distinctis 8-plo longiores. Corolla 9 

 9,5 mm longa, glabra, tubo 2 / 3 corollae long., limbi laciniis 

 apice subtus papulosis. Antherse 3 3,5 mm longse, ligula 

 long. Vs antherse, auriculis brevibus, brevissime acuminatis. 



Hab. in Hispaniola: Bertero (CD, orig. spec.); Schom- 

 burgk (K); Mayerhoff (B, CD, KU); Picarda n. 301, 301 

 b (KU); prope Petionville, anno 1889, Picarda n. 885 

 (KU); in montibus Sierra del Palo quemado, locis calcareis, 

 10. 5. 87, Eggers n. 1887 (Br, D, DC, K, KU); in collibus 

 siccis prope Gona'ives, mense Dec. 1898, Buch n. 10 (KU); 

 ibidem, mense Nov. 1900, Buch n. 523 (KU); prov. Barahona, 

 Las Salinas, Los Charcos, alt. 1200 m, Sept. 1911, Miguel 

 Fuertes n. 1388 (KU). 



A very distinct and always readily recognized species! 

 Though there is considerable variation as to the size of the 

 heads and the density of the inflorescence, the material of 

 this species must be considered as unusually uniform. 



Schultz-Bipontinus quotes two synonyms of the spe- 

 cies, Eupatorium salicinum Lam. and Eupatorium salvi- 

 folium Bertero. The latter belongs to the species and is 

 a mere name without any description. Eupatorium salici- 

 num Lam. is a true Eupatorium, having opposite leaves, though 

 in shape somewhat resembling those of V. Sprengeliana, and 

 was collected in Peru. Now Kurt Sprengel, unfortunately, 

 in his Systema referred Eupatorium salvifolium Bertero 

 to Eupatorium salicinum Lam., whence the quotation of Schultz- 

 -Bipontinus. Of course, Eupatorium salvifolium Bertero 



