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Gardn., etc. Two species have been found in the West 

 Indies, viz. V. gracilis H. B. K. and V. tricephala Gardn., both 

 in the extreme south-eastern part of the region. 



Conspectus specierum hujus subsectionis. 



I. Calathidia in axillis solitaria vel geanina. Squamae in- 

 volucri in mucronem plus minus ve elongatum, saepe recur - 

 vatum subito contracta3. Bequia. 



V. gracilis H. B. K. 



II. Calathidia in axillis vulgo plura, 2 4. Squamae invo- 



lucri acutissimae, in mucronem rectum sensim attenuatse. 



Trinidad. V. tricephala Gardn. 



Yernonia gracilis H. B. K. 



Vernonia gracilis Humboldt, Bonpland, Kunth, 1820, p. 34; Lessing, 

 1829, p. 302; 1831, p. 667 (excl. var. villosa), De Candolle, 1836, p. 49; 

 Schtxltz-Bipontinus, 1847, p. 511; Bakeb, 1873, p. 81 (quoad typum !). 



Vernonia elongata Willdenow in sched. ap- Lessing, 1829, p. 302. 



Vernonia Moritziana Schultz-Bipontinus, 1847, p. 511. 



Cacalia gracilis Kuntze, 1891, p. 970. 



Cacalia Moritziana Kuntze, 1891, p. 970. 



Hab. in Columbia. 



subsp. tomentosa Ekman n. subsp. 



A specie differt praesertim foliis discoloribus, subtus 

 tomento floccoso instructis. 



Vernonia Cotoneaster (W.) Less. var. angustifolia Hieronymus, 1901, 

 p. 559. 



Vernonia Cotoneaster (W.) Less. var. pungens Hieeonymtjs in sched. 

 herb. Berol. 



Pappi setae interiores persistentes, numero circ. 25, te- 

 nues, filiformes, albidae, quam exteriores 7-plo longiores. 

 Corolla 6 mm longa, glabra, tubo superne dilatato 2 / 3 long, 

 corollae, limbi laciniis dorso pilis longis instructis. Anthe- 

 rae 2,7 mm longae, ligula 1 / s long, antherae, subenervi, auri- 

 culis subito contractis. 



Hab. in Bequia: in collibus inter frutices, alt. 150 

 300 m, Maj. 1889, Joseph Dalton et H. H. Smith n. B. 288 

 (K, orig. spec, subspeciei). Insuper in Columbia. 



