318 GLEASON: STUDIES ON WEsT INDIAN VERNONIEAE 
Oriente, Cuba, December 24-30, 1910, deposited in the Herbarium 
of the New York Botanical Garden. 
Vernonia neglecta nom. nov. 
V..Wrightit Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cuba 144. 1866. Not V. Wrightii 
Sch.-Bip. 1863. 
Vernonia gnaphaliifolia Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 178. 
1906. Not V. gnaphaliifolia Rich. 1850. 
Apparently erect and suffruticose, sparingly branched, 6-15 
dm. high; stem and branches slender, obscurely striate, finely 
gray-tomentulose; leaves firm, flat, spreading, narrowly ovate- 
oblong to ovate-lanceolate, the largest on the type sheet 6—7 cm. 
long by 2 cm. wide, acute, or subobtuse and minutely apiculate, 
entire, rounded, truncate, or even subcordate at base, dark green 
and bullate above, papillose-puberulent when young, becoming 
glabrous and shining at maturity, softly gray-tomentose or almost 
villous beneath, especially along the elevated, prominently reticu- 
somewhat scarious on the margin; achenes pubescent, 1.5 mm. 
long; outer pappus white, 0.9 mm. long, the inner series very pale 
_ brown or almost white, 4 mm. long. 
Type, Wright 1309, on banks of cliffs near Monte Verde, eastern 
Cuba, deposited in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. 
The specimen bears two labels, one dated “Dec. 27,” the other 
“Jan.—Jul. 1859.” On the left-hand side of the same sheet is 
another specimen of the same species, also numbered 1309, and 
collected in eastern Cuba, Sept. 1859-Jan. 1860. Another sheet 
of the same species in the Gray Herbarium is Wright 2788: 
Vernonia calida sp. nov. 
: Shrubby, freely branched, 5 dm. tall; stem obscurely striate, 
thinly puberulent or finely cinereous-tomentulose in the inflores- 
cence; leaves spreading, thick, rigid, ovate-oblong, the principal 
