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phalis, calathicliis satis remotis, bracteis suffultis foliaceis, 

 iisdem duplo longioribus. Calathidia sessilia, axillaria, soli- 

 taria, circ. 18-flora. Involucrum late infundibuliforme, 5 mm 

 altum, 7 8 mm latum, squamis circ. 4-seriatis, satis laxis, 

 achsenia non plane tegentibus, extimis brevibus, deltoideis, 

 brevissime mucronulatis, intermediis lanceolato-deltoideis, in- 

 timis lineari-deltoideis, omnibus erectis, appressis, acutis, 

 subglabris, brunneo-nitidulis. Receptaculum planum, nudum. 

 Pappi setse interiores persistentes, numero circ. 35, tenues, 

 filiformes, 4 mm longse, albse, quam exteriores oblongo-ligulatse 

 distinctae 8-plo longiores. Flores in speciminibus visis fructus 

 tempore collectis desunt. Achaenia cylindrica, ad 2 mm longa, 

 sericeo-pubescentia, pilis erectis, subappressis, glandulis paucis, 

 aureis munita, costis perspicuis. 



Vernonia remotijlora Grisebach, 1862, p. 511 ; 1866, p. 144 {forma 

 angustifolia) non L. C. Rich. 



Vernonia araripensis Gleason, 1906 b, p- 181 : 1913, p. 308 non 

 Gaedn. 



Hab. in Cuba: Wright n. 286 (Bss, D, DC, G, K, KU, 

 orig. spec). 



The new species is related to V. angustissima Wright 

 ap. Ekman and V. stenophylla Less., but at once distinguished 

 by its broader leaves, which are green beneath, not sericeous 

 as in those species. 



Collected already by Wright, the species was identified 

 by Grisebach with V. remotijlora L. C. Rich., a very different, 

 annual plant, never found in the West Indies. Gleason refers 

 it to V. araripensis Gardn. Perhaps he has arrived at this 

 by identifying the species with V. tricholepis Grisebach (not 

 DC!) 1861, p. 35-1, which is said by Baker, 1873, p. 69, to be 

 identical with V. araripensis. In fact, Gleason cites V. tri- 

 cholepis Griseb. as a S3 r nonym to his V. araripensis. However, 

 V. tricholepis Griseb. is not our plant, nor is it identical with 

 V. araripensis Gardn., which still remains as a plant of Brazil. 



Vernonia angustissima Wright ap. Ekman n. sp. 



Tabula nostra VI, fig- 4 (habitus). 



Herba perennis, suffruticosa. Caulis (cujus pars superior 

 tantum adesl ) ultra 4 dm altus, inferne lignosus, diam. 2.5 mm, 



