GLEASON: STUDIES ON WEsT INDIAN VERNONIEAE 323 
Vernonia leptoclada Sch.-Bip. A specimen agreeing perfectly 
with the original description has been recently collected by 
Shafer, 8145, from Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Oriente, 
Cuba. It is described as a straggling shrub 3.5 m. tall, with white 
flowers. 
Vernonia Wrightit Sch.-Bip. Ex descr. A shrub, 1 m. high, 
freely branched above; stems pubescent; leaves heavy and coria- 
ceous, spreading or ascending, ovate-oblong to oblong, 3.5 cm. long 
by 1.2 cm. wide, sharply acute or mucronate, revolute, entire or 
with a few remote spinose teeth, rounded or even subcordate at the 
base, very scabrous above but not pubescent, minutely puberulent 
under the lens beneath; petioles 1-2 mm. long, pubescent; cymes 
long and spreading, with numerous heads; bracteal leaves like 
the cauline, but gradually reduced to 1 cm. long; heads sessile, 
secund, about 21-flowered; involucre about 7-8 mm. high, outer 
scales ovate, acuminate into a squarrose or recurved tip, the inner 
erect or somewhat spreading, sharply acute or subulate; pappus 
pale brown. 
Shafer 7738, from a dry serpentine hill near El Yunque, 
Oriente, and Shafer 3072, from pine lands at 500-650 m. altitude 
near Woodfred, Oriente, are referred here. They agree in most 
essential points with Schultz’ description of V. Wrightw (Journ. 
Bot. 1: 234. 1863), but lack the glabrous leaves narrowed at both 
ends and the sordid-purple pappus. 
Schultz’ species is based on Wright 1309. As is well known, 
the Wright numbers are much confused, and frequently shelter 
more than one species. The only available specimen of this 
number belongs to an entirely different species. 
Vernonia Sagraeana DC. A shrub 1.5 m. tall, growing on 
banks at an altitude of 325 m., near El Cuero, Oriente, Britton & 
Cowell 12704. 
Vernonia aronifolia sp. nov. 
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