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Veriionia hieracioides Griseb. 



Tabula nostra V, fig- 5 (habitus). 



Vernonia hieracioides Grisebach, 1862, p. 511. 

 Cacalia hieracioides Kuntze, 1891, p. 970. 

 Vernonia Orientis Gleason, 1913. p. 330. 



Pappi setse interiores persistentes, numero 35, filiformes, 

 tenues. straminese, quam exteriores latae, distinct se circ. 10-plo 

 longiores. Corolla 6 mm longa, tubo glabro, sensim dilatato, 

 long, ultra 2 / 3 corolla?, glandulis globuliformibus rarissimis vel 

 nullis, limbi laciniis striatulis, apice subtus papillosis. An- 

 therae 2,3 mm longse, ligula brevi, enervi, long. 1 / 7 anthera3, 

 auriculis brevissime acuminato-apiculatis. 



Hab. in Cuba orientali: prope villam Monte Verde dictam, 

 Jan. Jul. 1859, Wright n. 1306 (Bss, CD, sub nom. V. di- 

 chroopappce Sch.-Bip., D, DC, G, orig. spec, KU, ex herb. 

 Grisebach, ex herb. Alex. -Prior, P). 



Though I have not seen the type specimen of V. Orientis 

 Gleason, I have identified this species with V. hieracioides 

 Griseb. The most important features of the new species are 

 the particular structure of the inflorescence and the involucres, 

 as well as the few-flowered heads. Now V. hieracioides has 

 exactty the same inflorescence and involucres, as shown by the 

 type specimen in the Grisebach Herbarium and by its descrip- 

 tion: panicula fastigiata aphylla ramis ejus glandulo-pilosi- 

 usculis dichotomis vel apice brevissime scorpioideis . . . squa- 

 mis glabriusculis mucronato-acutis patulis. But V. hiera- 

 cioides is said to have 10-f lowered heads, and V. orientis only 

 5-flowered ones? However, the type specimen itself was found 

 to have 6 -7 -flowered heads, and hence I suppose the numbers 

 found by Grisebach and Gleason to be extreme. 



2. The allies of V. menthaefolia (Poepp.) Less. 

 Vernonia menthaefolia (Poepp. ap. Spr.) Less. 



Tabula nostra VI, fig. 1 (ramus floriger). 



Ewpatorium menthce folium Poeppig ap. Sprengel, 1826, p. 412. 

 Vernonia menthce folia Lessing, 1829, p. 268 ; De Candolle, 1836, p. 38; 

 Grisebach, 1862, p. 510; Gleason, 1906 b, p. 197; 1913, p. 331. 

 Vernonia Ottonis Schultz-Bipontinus. 1847. p. 50S. 

 Vernonia Grisebachii Schultz-Bipontinus, 1863, p. 231. 



