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Vernonia buxifolia Lessing, 1829, p. 313. 



Vemonia domingensis De Candolle, 1836, p. 30. 



Cacalia buxifolia Kttntze, 1891, p. 968. 



Vernonia montana Gleason, 1906 b, p. 191 ; 1913, p. 327. 



Pappi setse interiores subpersistentes, numero 50, crassi- 

 usculse, paullulo complanatee, subrigiclse, pallicle rufescentes, 

 exterioribus linearibus, inconspicuis 8 10-longiores. Co- 

 rolla (haud evoluta) 4 mm longa, tubo amplo, glabro, long. 

 V 2 corollas, limbi laciniis ipso apice pilo uno alterove instruc- 

 tis, subtus papulosis. Antherae 2,5 mm longse, ligula long. 

 1 / i antherse, subenervi, auriculis obtusis. 



Hab. in Hispaniola: Nectoux (P); Poiteau (P); 

 Bertero (M, Prodr, orig. spec. Proustice domingensis Spr.); 

 prope Port au Prince in Morne Tranchant, alt. 1900 m, April. 

 1892, Picarda n. 1023 (KU); inter Constanza et Rio Jime- 

 noa, alt. 1900 m, mense Junio 1910, Turckheim n. 2959 B 

 (KU); in cuspide montium La Hajo, mense Oct. 1910, Mi- 

 guel Fuertes n. 597 (KU, P); inter La Brande et montem 

 Balance, ad arbores scandens, alt. 1000 m, 15. 8. 05, Nash 

 et Taylor n. 1756 (KU, dupl. spec. orig. V. montance Glea- 

 son). 



An interesting species apparently not rare in the higher 

 mountains of Hispaniola. The specimens cited above agree 

 exactly with each other and with the type of Proustia do- 

 mingensis Spr. in the Prodromus Herbarium. The type 

 specimen of Lepidaploa buxifolia Cass, has not been seen. 

 The good description of Cassini agrees perfectly with the 

 species as here understood. 



Gleason in his Revision and in his Studies evidently 

 has another plant in mind when describing V. buxifolia. The 

 characteristics Achenes pubescent; outer pappus conspi- 

 cuous, its scales much broader than the white bristles of the 

 inner series (Gleason, 1913, p. 327) clearly do not apply 

 to our V. buxifolia, of which Cassini says: Les ovaires sont 

 glabres . . . leur aigrette est roussatre, double: l'exterieur 

 courte, peu distincte, composee de squamellules inegales, 

 filiformes-laminees, subulees, denticulees . Which species 

 Gleason has in mind, I cannot decide; most probably it is 

 a new one. He has, however, genuine V. buxifolia (Cass.) 

 Less, at hand, but describes it as a new species, V. montana 

 Gleason. 



