324 GLEASON: STUDIES ON WEsT INDIAN VERNONIEAE 
mm. long, standing at right angles to the margin, obtuse or sub- 
acute at base, minutely puberulent beneath, especially along the 
veins, glabrous above; veins prominent, light green, the lateral 
ones arcuate-ascending, branched and reticulated, especially 
toward the margin, one of the smaller marginal veins prolonged 
into each denticulation; cymes terminal and lateral, spreading, 
unbranched, 15-20 cm. long, very leafy, bearing 6—10 heads; 
bracteal leaves resembling the cauline in shape and texture, or 
varying to broadly oblong-elliptic in shape; the lower approximat- 
ing the cauline in size, the upper gradually reduced to half the 
size, but always greatly exceeding the flowers; heads sessile, 
single in the axils, about 34—47-flowered; corollas white; involucre 
hemispherical or broadly campanulate, 8-9 mm. high, in dried 
specimens about 15 mm. broad; scales thinly puberulent, im- 
bricated only at the base, straight or erect in bud, becoming 
spreading or flexed in fruit, the outer lance-linear, subulate, the 
inner linear-oblong, acuminate to a subulate tip; achenes smooth; 
outer pappus white, 0.8 mm. long, inner series pale brown or 
nearly white, 8 mm. long, minutely barbellate. 
Type, Shafer 13514, collected from high rocks in limestone hills, 
vicinity of Sumidero, Province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, August 2, 4, 
1912, deposited in the Herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden. The collection is represented by two sheets, one includ- 
ing apparently the top of the plant, and the other two detached 
lateral branches. 
Vernonia fallax sp. nov. 
Shrubby, I m. high; stem erect, sparingly branched, finely 
striate, closely gray-tomentose, especially above; leaves firm, 
reticulated; petioles 1-2 mm. long; inflorescence pyramidal, ter- 
minal, of about 4-10 short, spreading or recurved cymes bearing 
each 3-7 heads; heads secund, sessile, about 21-flowered; involucre 
broadly campanulate or subhemispherical, 6-7 mm. high, its 
scales appressed, closely imbricated, pubescent, especially near 
the tip, outer scales ovate-triangular, acute and cuspidate, the 
inner subacute or rounded at the tip; outer pappus white, 0.7 mm. 
long, the inner pappus very pale brown, 6 mm. long; achenes 
glabrous. 
