318 Gleason: Studies on West Indian Vernonieae 



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

 of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Vernonia neglecta nom. now 



V. Wrightii Griseb. Cat. PI. Cuba 144. 1866. Not V. Wrightii 



Sch.-Bip. 1863. 

 Vernonia gnaphaliifolia Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 178. 



1906. Not V. gnaphaliifolia Rich. 1850. 



Apparently erect and suffruticose, sparingly branched, 6-15 

 dm. high; stem and branches slender, obscurely striate, finely 

 gray-tomentulose ; leaves firm, flat, spreading, narrowly ovate- 

 oblong to ovate-lanceolate, the largest on the type sheet 6-7 cm. 

 long by 2 cm. wide, acute, or subobtuse and minutely apiculate, 

 entire, rounded, truncate, or even subcordate at base, dark green 

 and bullate above, papillose-puberulent when young, becoming 

 glabrous and shining at maturity, softly gray-tomentose or almost 

 villous beneath, especially along the elevated, prominently reticu- 

 lated veins; petioles tomentose, 1-4 mm., long; cymes 2 or 3, 

 terminal, spreading, 1.5-2.5 dm. long, straight, leafy; lower 

 bracteal leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, about 3 cm. long 

 by 1.3 cm. wide; the upper reduced, becoming oblong and only 

 1.5 cm. long; heads sessile, secund, about 21-flowered, separated 

 by internodes 1-2 cm. long; corollas purple; involucre broadly 

 campanulate, about 6 mm. high, its scales rather closely but 

 irregularly imbricated, thinly pubescent or glabrate, the outer 

 triangular and subulate, the inner ovate-lanceolate, sharply acute, 

 somewhat scarious on the margin; achenes pubescent, 1.5 mm. 

 long; outer pappus white, 0.9 mm. long, the inner series very pale 

 brown or almost white, 4 mm. long. 



Type, Wright 1309, on banks of cliffs near Monte Verde, eastern 

 Cuba, deposited in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. 

 The specimen bears two labels, one dated "Dec. 27," the other 

 "Jan.-Jul. 1859." On the left-hand side of the same sheet is 

 another specimen of the same species, also numbered 1309, and 

 collected in eastern Cuba, Sept. 1859-Jan. i860. Another sheet 

 of the same species in the Gray Herbarium is Wright 2788. 



Vernonia calida sp. nov. 



Shrubby, freely branched, 5 dm. tall; stem obscurely striate, 

 thinly puberulent or finely cinereous-tomentulose in the inflores- 

 cence; leaves spreading, thick, rigid, ovate-oblong, the principal 



