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3. The allies of V. bahamensis Griseb. 

 Vernonia bahamensis Griseb. 



Tabula nostra II, fig. 2 (habitus et folium). 



Vernonia bahamensis Grisebach, 1861, p. 352; Gleason, 1906 a, p. 187 ; 

 1906 b, p. 190; 1913, p. 326. 



Cacalia bahamensis Kuntze, 1891, p. 369. 



Pappi setae interiores persistentes, numero 40, tenues, 

 exterioribus distinctis circ. 7-plo longiores. Corolla 6,5 mm 

 longa, tubo glabro, apice sensim dilatato, long. i / 7 corollae, 

 limbi laciniis apice pilis nonnullis satis longis munitis, subtus 

 papillosis. Anthera3 2,7 mm longae, ligula nervosula V 5 long, 

 antherae, auriculis satis elongatis, obtusiusculis. 



Hab. in insulis Baham. Fortune Island: 4. 2. 88, Eggers 

 n. 3832 (BB, D, H, KU, M, P, S). Acklins Island: 9. 2. 88, 

 Eggers n. 3893 (KU). 



The Vernoniae of the Bahamas have been the object 

 of a particular study by Gleason. His exposition, entitled: 

 The genus Vernonia in the Bahamas , Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 

 Vol. 33, 1906, is accepted here as substantially correct. 



Yernonia obcordata Gleason. 



Vernonia obcordata Gleason, 1906 a, p. 187; 1906 b, p. 190. 



Hab. in insula Baham. Little Inagua Island: 20. 10. 

 04, Nash and Taylor n. 1206. 



I have seen no specimens of this plant. 



Yernonia arbuscula Less. 



Tabula nostra II, fig. 3 (habitus). 



Vernonia arbuscula Lessing, 1831, p. 664. 



Vernonia arctata Gleason, 1906 a, p. 185; 1906 b, p. 189: 1913, p. 326. 



Pappi setae interiores persistentes, numero 45, tenues, 

 quam exteriores distinctae 7-plo longiores. Corolla 6 mm 

 longa, tubo amplo, glabro, long 4 / 7 corollas, limbi laciniis apice 

 pilis nonnullis praeditis subtusque papillosis. Antherse 2,5 



