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lathidia parva. Receptaculum margine alveolarum lacerato- 

 -fimbriatum. Pappi setce interiores persistentes, firmulce, jili- 

 formes aut paullulo complanatce, numero 30 40, albidce, exte- 

 riores distinctce. Corolla glabra, aut limbi laciniis dorso pilosis. 

 Antherce 1,2 2,4 mm longce, ligula long. 1 / 3 */ anthers. Achai- 

 nia tenuiter pubescentia. 



To this subsection I refer four species, V . scorpioides 

 (Lam.) Pers., V. brachiata Benth., V. megaphylla Hieron., 

 and a new species from the catingas of Bahia, collected by 

 Ule, n. 7236. V. brachiata and V. megaphylla are closely 

 allied, as are V. scorpioides and the new species from Bahia. 

 In the West Indies only V. scorpioides occurs. It is found 

 there in the islands of Tobago, Trinidad and Margarita, the 

 flora of which greatly resembles that of South America. 



Yernonia scorpioides (Lam.) Pers. 



Tabula nostra VI, fig. 2 (inflorescentia). 



Conyza scorpioides Lamaeck, 1786, p. 88. 



Vemonia scorpioides Persoon, 1807, p. 404; Lessing, 1829, p. 282; 

 1831, p. 658; De Candolle, 1836, p. 41; Schultz-Bipontinus, 1847, p. 510; 

 Gbtsebach, 1861, p. 353; Baker, 1873, p. 101; Gleason, 1906 b, p. 193. 



Vemonia subrepanda Persoon, 1807, p. 404. 



Vemonia toumefortiodes Humboldt, Bonpland, Kunth, 1820, p. 34; 

 Lessing, 1829, p. 281; 1831, p. 657; De Candolle, 1836, p. 41. 



Lepidaploa scorpioides Cassini, 1823, p. 16. 



Vemonia centriflora Link et Otto, 1828, t. 55. 



Staehelina solidaginoides Willdenow herb. ap. Lessing, 1829, p. 281. 



Vemonia flavescens Lessing, 1831, p. 657; De Candolle, 1836, p. 41. 



Ghrysocoma repanda Vellozo, 1825, p. 306 (sec. ed. Netto); 1827, 

 vero edita 1835, t. 13. 1 



Vemonia longeracemosa Mart. ap. De Candolle, 1836, p. 42. 



Vemonia lanuginosa Gardner, 1846, p. 219. 



Vemonia cincta Grisebach, 1879, p. 162. 



Cacalia cincta Kuntze, 1891, p. 969. 



Gacalia scorpioides Kuntze, 1891, p. 971. 



Cacalia tournefortioides Kuntze, 1891, p. 971. 



1 The first edition. (1825) of the descriptions to Vellozo's Flora flumi- 

 nensis is an extremely rare work. It was reprinted in 1881 (in Archivos do 

 Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro). The plates to the descriptions, the 

 well-known Florae fluminensis Icones, were not to be had in European 

 libraries before 1835. From the descriptions it is quite impossible to iden- 

 tify the plants concerned. Like Otto Kuntze I prefer to consider the 

 species of Vellozo as published in the year 1835. 



