GLEASON; STUDIES ON WEsT INDIAN VERNONIEAE 319 
ones 3.5-5 cm. long and 1.5-2 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at the 
tip, crenate or repand, broadly rounded or subcordate at base, 
strongly bullate, dark green, minutely papillose-pubescent when 
young, soon becoming glabrate or scabrellate and shining above, 
densely and softly brown-tomentose beneath; petioles 1-3 mm. 
long; lateral veins prominent, strongly curved and soon confluent; 
veinlets prominently reticulated; cymes few, simple or sparingly 
branched, 6-12 cm. long, the rachis densely tomentose; bracteal 
leaves resembling the cauline in shape, but smaller, crenulate or 
entire, the upper I-1.5 cm. long; heads rather crowded, single or 
frequently two at each node, about 21-flowered, separated by inter- 
nodes I-2 cm. long; corollas pink; involucre broadly campanulate, 
mm. high; scales densely pubescent, closely imbricated, or 
somewhat spreading at the tip, the outer subulate, the inner 
narrowly triangular-lanceolate and acute; achenes pubescent, 1.5 
mm. long; pappus yellowish brown, the outer series 0.7 mm., the 
inner 5 mm. in length. 
Type, Shafer 8408, in dry soil, Sabanilla to Yamuri Arriba, 
Oriente, Cuba, January 30, February 1, 1911, deposited in the 
Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 
Vernonia semitalis sp. nov. 
Shrubby, 6-9 dm. tall, freely branched above; stem striate, 
leafy, thinly brown-tomentose, especially on the younger branches; 
eaves numerous and crowded, thick, rigid, somewhat revolute, 
divaricately spreading, ovate or ovate-triangular, broadest near 
the base, 1.5-2 cm. long by I-1.3 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at 
the apex, entire, truncate or subcordate at base; upper surface 
shining, glabrous or scabrellate, strongly bullate; lower surface 
closely invested with a thin gray-green tomentum; veins elevated 
beneath, the lateral ones ascending and confluent near the margin; 
veinlets prominently reticulated; upper leaves resembling the 
lower ones and scarcely reduced in size, bearing heads in their 
axils and forming several crowded cymes 10-15 cm. long; heads 
about 21-flowered, secund, the lower separated by internodes I 
cm. long, the upper approximate; corollas white; involucre cam- 
panulate, about 5-6 mm. high; outer scales triangular-subulate 
and pubescent, the inner narrowly triangular, sharply acuminate, 
glabrous or nearly so; achenes pubescent, 1.5 mm. long; pappus _ 
nearly white, the outer series 0.7 mm., the inner 4 mm. long. 
Type, Shafer 4176, from pine land, altitude 400 m., along the 
trail from Rio Yamaniguey to Camp Toa, Oriente, Cuba, February 
22-26, 1910, deposited in the Herbarium of the New York Botan- 
ical Garden. 
