GLEASON: STUDIES ON WEsT INDIAN VERNONIEAE 309 
Vernonia corallophila sp. nov. 
Stem erect, herbaceous, 4 dm. high, virgate, finely striate, 
strigose-pubescent; leaves sessile, narrowly linear, rigid, revolute, 
one-nerved, I-3 cm. long, strigose-hispid and punctate above, 
densely strigose-pubescent beneath; inflorescence cylindrical or 
sparingly branched; heads 11-flowered, in the axils of the upper 
leaves or rarely 2 or 3 together on a short ascending lateral cyme; 
bracteal leaves resembling the cauline, but reduced in size and 
the upper barely exceeding the heads; involucre turbinate, 5-6 
mm. high, its scales all straight, erect, very loosely imbricated, 
strigose-pubescent, the outer subulate, the inner narrowly oblong, 
long-acuminate; achenes pubescent, 2 mm. long; pappus nearly 
white, the inner series 4-5 mm. long. 
Type, Britton 1939, from a coral limestone beach at the United - 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Oriente, Cuba, March 
17-30, 1909, deposited in the Herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden. 
The species is readily distinguished by its slender virgate 
inflorescence and small leaves from V. stenophylla with its long 
leaves and divaricate inflorescence. 
Vernonia angustata sp. nov. 
Vernonia sublanata angustata Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 
177. 1906. 
Herbaceous, height not stated; stems slender, puberulent or 
thinly pubescent, sparingly branched above; leaves thin, flat, 
spreading, narrowly oblong with parallel sides, 3-5 cm. long, 4-8 
mm. wide, obtuse or rounded, mucronate, entire, acute at the 
reduced in size, and the upper only 1 cm. long; heads sessile, 
distinctly secund, about 18-flowered; involucre broadly campanu- 
late, 6-7 mm. high, its scales loosely and irregularly imbricated, 
strigose-pubescent, acuminate or sharply acute, the outer lanceo- 
- late, the inner narrowly oblong; achenes pubescent, 2 mm. long;. 
pappus white, the inner series 6 mm. long. 
