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spreading, acute, internally villous ; stamens 2, free, inserted upon the 

 throat of the calyx-tube ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, straight or slightly 

 curved, 1 mm. long; filament short, thick; rudiment of gynoecium none: 

 pistillate Jlower 5 mm. long, sessile or shortly pedicellate, pedicel pubes- 

 cent; calyx 5-parted, green, lobes ovate, glabrous; corolla rotate, 5-lobed, 

 lobes acute, internally pubescent ; stamitiodia 2, minute ; ovary with two 

 placentas and about 6 ovules horizontally arranged ; style short, filiform, 

 bifid at apex, stigmas 2, bifid, villose ; fruit 1- to 4-seeded, glabrous, ovoid, 

 about 7 mm. long. — Along the roadside from El Valle to San Antonio, 

 climbing over such shrubs as Lyciiim. salsutn, R. & P., and Cereus eburneus, 

 Salm., Johnston, no. 286, Aug. 8, 1903. 



Vernonia Milleri, n. sp. Shrub 12 to 18 dm. high: leaves petio- 

 late, alternate, 1.5 to 3 cm. long and 0.5 to 2 cm. wide, with acuminate 

 apex and attenuate base, slightly mealy-pubescent above, the lower sur- 

 face densely whitish-pubescent, minutely black-dotted, and reticulate 

 veiny; petiole 0.5 cm. long; pedicels 0.2 cm. long: inflorescence irreg- 

 ular, densely cymose, the close aggregation of heads 4 cm. in diameter ; 

 heads 3- to 4-flowered, 0.6 cm. long, 0.3 cm. broad; bracts 3- to 4-serial, 

 outer setaceous, the inner ones becoming broadly lanceolate, 0.3 cm. 

 long, three times the length of the outer: corolla 5-lobed, lobes narrow, 

 acute, five- to seven-twelfths the length of corolla : pappus 2.5 mm. long, 

 2-serial, outer series very short, fimbriate ; inner series long, barbellate, 11 

 to 12 setae, white: anthers with a narrow triangular appendage at apex, 

 at base deeply sagittate : style 2-cleft, pubescent above ; achene truncate, 

 slightly pubescent. — Summit of South hill, alt. 300 m., Miller ^ John- 

 stun, no. 254, July 31, 1901, and Johnston, no. 329, Aug. 31, 1903. 



