GLEASON: STUDIES ON WEsT INDIAN VERNONIEAE 313 
nent beneath; petioles 3-4 mm. long; rameal and bracteal leaves 
similar, but much smaller; inflorescence cylindrical or pyramidal, 
composed of numerous short, divaricate, irregularly branched 
cymes, forming a terminal panicle, and bearing each 4-10 sessile, 
crowded, 8-flowered heads near their tips; involucre narrowly 
campanulate, 4-5 mm. high, its scales erect, regularly imbricated 
in several ranks, thinly puberulent or glabrate, the outer ovate, 
with acute or apiculate tips, the inner oblong, slightly narrowed 
to a rounded tip; flowers purple to pale lavender; immature 
achenes densely pubescent; outer pappus pale brown, 0.4 mm. 
long, the inner brown, 4 mm. lon 
Type, Britton 102, from Morce’s Gap, near Cinchona, Jamaica, 
September 2-10, 1906, in the Herbarium of the New York Botan- 
ical Garden. Three other sheets in the same herbarium agree 
with it perfectly and are referred to the same species: Marble 188, 
from Cinchona, E. G. Britton 3856, from the Blue Mountains, 
and Britton 4055, from the Parish of St. Thomas. The latter 
was collected in March; the achenes are all discharged and the dry 
and brown involucre is widely open. 
Vernonia reducta sp. nov. 
Shrubby, freely branched above, height not stated; stem 
striate, glabrate below, becoming puberulent in the inflorescence; 
leaves spreading, firm, bright green above, paler beneath, narrowly 
elliptical-oblong or somewhat oblanceolate, broadest at or near the 
middle, the principal ones 4-4.5 cm. long by 1.2-1.6 cm. wide, 
sharply acute or subacuminate, entire or finely denticulate, 
gradually narrowed at the base, minutely puberulent on both 
sides and finely glandular-punctate beneath; petioles 2-5 mm. 
long; cymes numerous, terminating the stem and the upper 
branches, and forming a large loose pyramidal panicle; rameal 
and bracteal leaves resembling the cauline, but becoming narrower 
and smaller toward the ends of the branches, and finally barely 
exceeding the heads; heads crowded in clusters of 2-7, sessile 
or nearly so, not at all secund, 5-flowered; involucre narrowly 
campanulate or subcylindric, 5-6 mm. high, its scales puberulent 
on the back and regularly imbricated in several ranks, outer scales 
triangular, acute, and somewhat arachnoid-ciliate, the inner be- 
coming oblong-linear, puberulent or glabrate, narrowed to an 
obtuse apex; achenes about 2 mm. long, hirsute; pappus rufescent, 
the outer series 0.5 mm., the inner 4-5 mm. long. 
Type, Britton 203, from Sir John Peak, Jamaica, September 
