GLEASON: STUDIES ON WEsT INDIAN VERNONIEAE 317 
Vernonia calophylla sp. nov. 
A straggling shrub, 1 m. high or less; stem slender, striate, 
freely and loosely branched. cinereous-puberulent below, becoming 
tomentose in the branches; leaves firm and rigid, ovate to sub- 
rotund, the principal ones 20-25 mm. long by 13-18 mm. wide, 
rounded or obtuse at the apex, entire, somewhat revolute, rounded 
or subcordate at base, dark green, rugose, and papillose-pubescent 
above, closely invested beneath with silver-gray tomentum; veins 
conspicuous, the lateral ones ascending and the veinlets promi- 
nently reticulated; petioles 1-2 mm. long; heads in the axils of 
the upper leaves, forming cymes 10-16 cm. long, sessile, 18-21- 
flowered; bracteal leaves resembling the cauline, but smaller, 
I—1.5 cm. long and more densely pubescent above; corollas white; 
involucre campanulate, 5 mm. high; scales somewhat arachnoid- 
puberulent, especially near their tips, the outer ones narrowly 
triangular, subulate, the inner linear-oblong, acute; achenes 
pubescent, 2 mm. long; pappus nearly white, the outer series 0.8 
mm., the inner 4-mm. long. 
Type, Shafer 8102, from Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, 
Oriente, Cuba, December 24-30, 1910, deposited in the Herbarium 
of the New York Botanical Garden. 
Vernonia vicina sp. nov. 
An upright shrub, 3-6 dm. tall, sparingly branched; stem 
finely sleet glabrate below, puberulent above, and in the 
branches closely cinereous-tomentulose; leaves firm and rigid, 
spreading, dark green above, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, the principal 
ones 3-4.5 cm. long by 1-1.5 cm. wide, broadest at or near the 
middle, narrowed to an obtuse or subacute tip and to an acute 
_ base, entire, somewhat revolute, rugose above, papillose-pubescent 
when young, becoming glabrate with age, closely invested beneath 
with thin yellowish brown or cinereous tomentum, especially 
between the veins; lateral veins ascending, but curved and ap- 
proximate near the margin; veinlets prominently reticulated ; 
petioles curved, 1-2 mm. long, tomentose; upper leaves like the 
lower, but smaller, eventually only 1 cm. long by 4 mm. wide, 
bearing heads in the upper 4-5 axils; heads about 26-flowered; 
flowers light blue, involucre campanulate, 5-6 mm. high, its 
scales closely imbricated, glabrous or thinly puberulent, outer 
scales subulate, somewhat spreading, inner scales lance-oblong, 
sharply acute; achenes pubescent, 2 mm. long; outer eee 
white, 0.8 mm. long; inner series almost white, 4 mm. long. 
Type, Shafer 8202, from Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, 
