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Vernonia calophylla sp. nov. 



A straggling shrub, I m. high or less; stem slender, striate, 

 freely and loosely branched, cinereous-puberulent below, becoming 

 tomentose in the branches; leaves firm and rigid, ovate to sub- 

 rotund, the principal ones 20-25 mm. long by 13-18 mm. wide, 

 rounded or obtuse at the apex, entire, somewhat revolute, rounded 

 or subcordate at base, dark green, rugose, and papillose-pubescent 

 above, closely invested beneath with silver-gray tomentum; veins 

 conspicuous, the lateral ones ascending and the veinlets promi- 

 nently reticulated; petioles 1-2 mm. long; heads in the axils of 

 the upper leaves, forming cymes 10-16 cm. long, sessile, 18-21- 

 flowered; bracteal leaves resembling the cauline, but smaller, 

 1-1.5 cm. long and more densely pubescent above; corollas white; 

 involucre campanulate, 5 mm. high; scales somewhat arachnoid- 

 puberulent, especially near their tips, the outer ones narrowly 

 triangular, subulate, the inner linear-oblong, acute; achenes 

 pubescent, 2 mm. long; pappus nearly white, the outer series 0.8 

 mm., the inner 4 mm. long. 



Type, Shafer 8102, from Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, 

 Oriente, Cuba, December 24-30, 1910, deposited in the Herbarium 

 of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Vernonia vicina sp. nov. 



An upright shrub, 3-6 dm. tall, sparingly branched; stem 

 finely striate, glabrate below, puberulent above, and in the 

 branches closely cinereous-tomentulose; leaves firm and rigid, 

 spreading, dark green above, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, the principal 

 ones 3-4.5 cm. long by I— 1.5 cm. wide, broadest at or near the 

 middle, narrowed to an obtuse or subacute tip and to an acute 

 base, entire, somewhat revolute, rugose above, papillose-pubescent 

 when young, becoming glabrate with age, closely invested beneath 

 with thin yellowish brown or cinereous tomentum, especially 

 between the veins; lateral veins ascending, but curved and ap- 

 proximate near the margin; veinlets prominently reticulated; 

 petioles curved, 1-2 mm. long, tomentose; upper leaves like the 

 lower, but smaller, eventually only 1 cm. long by 4 mm. wide, 

 bearing heads in the upper 4-5 axils; heads about 26-flowered; 

 flowers light blue, involucre campanulate, 5-6 mm. high, its 

 scales closely imbricated, glabrous or thinly puberulent, outer 

 scales subulate, somewhat spreading, inner scales lance-oblong, 

 sharply acute; achenes pubescent, 2 mm. long; outer pappus 

 white, 0.8 mm. long; inner series almost white, 4 mm. long. 



Type, Shafer 8202, from Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, 



