GLEASON: STUDIES ON WEsT INDIAN VERNONIEAE 325 
Type, Britton & Wilson 5478, from a hillside, altitude 500 m., 
in the Trinidad Mountains, Province of Santa Clara, Cuba, March 
12, 1910, deposited in the Herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden. 
The bracteal leaves have all fallen off the type specimen, except 
a few fragments, and the leaves are crowded on short lateral 
branches. The inflorescence is thus left at the end of a naked 
peduncle 2-3 dm. long, giving the specimen an aspect entirely 
unlike other species of the group. It is scarcely to be expected 
that the same peculiarity will be maintained in other collections 
of the species. 
Vernonia aceratoides sp. nov. 
Vernonia inaequiserrata angustifolia Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cuba 144. 
1866. 
Slender and probably herbaceous; stem finely striate, closely 
gray-tomentulose; leaves firm, spreading or ascending, narrowly 
oblong-lanceolate or lance-linear, the principal ones 7~8 cm. long 
and I-1.2 cm. wide, acute and mucronulate at the tip, entire or 
somewhat repand; obtuse or rounded at the base, minutely 
scabrellate above and puberulent along the midvein, finely brown- 
tomentulose beneath; veins prominent beneath and conspicu- 
ously reticulated; petioles 2-3 mm. long; inflorescence terminal, 
of about 3 short divaricately spreading cymes, bearing each six 
or seven secund heads; bracteal leaves oblong, the upper ones not 
exceeding the heads, and all proportionately broader than the 
cauline; involucre narrowly campanulate, 5-6 mm. high; scales 
closely and regularly imbricated, appressed, the outer ovate- 
triangular, cuspidate, the inner with an ovate exposed portion, 
rounded and apiculate at the tip. 
Grisebach’s variety was based on a specimen of Wright 2784; 
the preceding more detailed description is based on a sheet of the 
same number in the Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 
SPECIES-GROUP LONGIFOLIAE 
The herbarium of Dr. Otto Kuntze contained a good specimen 
of a Vernonia from St. Thomas, collected by Kuntze himself in 
1874, and labeled Vernonia Thomae Benth. It can not be dis- 
tinguished, however, in any essential character from Vernonia 
albicaulis Pers., and the two species may henceforth be considered 
identical. This disposition of V. Thomae was suggested before 
by Gleason (Revision, 191), although at that time the two were 
