Gleason: Vernoxia in the Bahamas 187 



Vernonia bahamensis Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 352. 1864. 



A repeatedly dichotomously branched bushy shrub, reaching 

 a height of 2 m. or more, with the leaves confined mostly to 

 the young branches. Stem flexuous, thinly tomentose ; younger 

 branches strongly angled ; leaves alternate, numerous, spatulate, 

 oblanceolate, or narrowly obovate, entire, rounded at the tip 

 and varying from mucronate to slightly retuse, narrowed at the 

 base into a margined petiole, pinnately veined, tomentose on 

 both sides, especially beneath, 2-3.5 cm. long, including the peti- 

 ole, 0.5—1.2 cm. wide; heads few, seldom more than four on each 

 branch, single, sessile among the upper leaves, with 13 flowers or 

 fewer, usually 8 ; involucre campanulate, 3-4 mm. high ; scales 

 ovate-lanceolate, sharply acute, loosely imbricated in few series, 

 tomentose; achenes densely hirsute, 2— 2.5 mm. long; pappus 

 nearly white, 4-5 mm. long, the outer series conspicuous. 



Fortune Island, Eggers 3832, Apr. 2, 1888 ; Inagua, Nash & 

 Taylor ioiy, Oct. 14, 1904, and 1344, Oct. 28, 1904. 



Notes accompanying the specimens indicate that it grows in 

 the so-called white lands, has purple, flowers, and is locally known 

 as white sage ; the photograph, for which I am indebted to Mr. 

 G. V. Nash, shows the general character of the plant. 



The last cited specimen has been compared with the original 

 collections in the Kew Herbarium, and pronounced identical by 



Will 



Fortune 



Island and Inagua Island are near the southern end of the Baha- 

 mian archipelago, and the latter is not far from Haiti. As indi- 

 cated by the specimens at hand, V. bahamensis and V. arctata are 

 distinct not only in structure but also in geographical distribution. 



Vernonia obcordata sp. nov. 



§ Lepidaploa, Scorpioideae rednctae ; a much-branched shrub 

 6-9 dm. high, with stiff crooked branches, bearing leaves only on 

 the young shoots ; young branches strongly angled and tomen- 

 tose, becoming terete and glabrous with age ; leaves numerous, 

 crowded, broadly obcordate, entire, narrowed at the base into a 

 petiole 5 mm. long, pinnately veined, closely gray tomentose on 

 both sides, especially beneath, blade 0.8-1 -5 cm. long, 0.7-1.5 

 cm. wide, the cordation at the apex 2-3 mm. deep ; heads few, 

 single, sessile among the upper leaves, 8-13-flowered ; involucre 

 campanulate, 4-5 mm. high ; scales ovate-lanceolate, acute, irreg- 



