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Stems shrubby, erect, 1-5 m. high, minutely puberulent; leaf-blades thin, varying from 
narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at each end, to ovate, rounded at base and acute at 
apex, entire, undulate, or sparsely serrate with low teeth, bright-green and scabrellate above, 
closely and finely puberulent and dull-green beneath; petioles 10-15 mm. long; inflorescence 
loosely pyramidal, 2-3 dm. wide, dichotomously branched; heads 11-18 flowered, on peduncles 
3-5 mm. long; involucre broadly campanulate, closely imbricate, 4-5 mm. high; scales cori- 
aceous, puberulent, the outer short, ovate, obtuse or acute, the inner oblong-lanceolate, 
rounded with thickened midvein, glandular; achenes 3 mm. long, minutely pubescent, glandular ; 
pappus yellowish-brown to nearly white, the bristles 6 mm. long, the scales narrow, 0.4-0.5 
mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba. 
ILLUSTRATION: Ark. Bot. 13: pl. 6, f. I. 
72. Vernonia cubensis Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 144. 1866. 
Vernonia hieracioides cubensis Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 19: 268. 1890. 
Stems shrubby, 2 m. high, closely and finely pubescent; leaf-blades firm, dull-green or 
olivaceous, obovate to obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, 4-7 cm. long, 1.5-3.5 em. wide, acute 
or abruptly acuminate, obscurely denticulate, obtuse or acute at base, scabrous above, puberu- 
lent with brown hairs beneath, especially on the veins; inflorescence spreading, freely branched, 
bearing numerous, crowded, 11-13-flowered heads; involucre campanulate or somewhat 
turbinate, 3-4 mm. high; scales nearly glabrous, purple at least at the apex, resinous-glandular, 
the outer ovate, acute, the inner ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute; achenes pubescent, fre- 
quently glandular in the furrows; pappus pale-brown, the bristles 4 mm. long, the scales linear, 
0.4 mim. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Western Cuba. ‘ 
DISTRIBUTION: Central and western Cuba and Isle of Pines. 
ILLUSTRATION: Ark. Bot. 1315: pl. 5, f. 2. 
73. Vernonia havanensis DC. Prodr. 5:37. 1836. 
Vernonia stictophylla C. Wright; Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci. Habana 6: 176. 1869. 
Cacalia havanensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 970. 1891. 
Stems shrubby, fréely branched, 1-2 m. high, thinly pubescent or glabrate; leaf-blades 
thin, spreading, bright-green, 6-11 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, narrowly oblanceolate to obovate, 
acute or abruptly acuminate, entire or sparingly denticulate, attenuate at base, sessile or 
petioled, glabrous and usually punctate above, minutely puberulent and resinous beneath; 
inflorescence loose, open, freely branched, 1-3 dm‘ broad; heads 18—29-flowered; involucre 
5-8 mm. high, broadly campanulate, tinged with purple; scales closely but irregularly imbricate 
in few series, resinous-glandular, otherwise nearly glabrous, the outer ovate, acute, the inner 
oblong, obtuse or rounded; achenes pubescent on the ribs, glandular in the furrows; pappus 
white or pale-brown, the bristles 6 mm. long, the scales very slender, 0.6 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Havana, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Central and western Cuba. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ark. Bot. 13%: pl. 5, f. 6, 7. 
74. Vernonia hieracioides Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. 
i851 S60: 
Cacalia hieracioides Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 970. 1891. 
Vernonia Orientis Gleason, Bull. Torrey Club 40: 330. 1913. 
Stems shrubby, 3-6 m. tall, sparingly branched, glabrate below, cinereous-puberulent 
in the inflorescence; leaf-blades rigid, dark-green, spreading, oblanceolate, 9-11 cm. long, 
2.5-3.5 em. wide, abruptly short-acuminate or sharply acute, remotely dentate with sharp 
salient teeth, chiefly above the middle, attenuate below to a cuneate base, scabrous to glabrate 
and somewhat rugose above, minutely puberulent beneath, glandular-dotted on both sides; 
petioles 5-10 mm. long; inflorescence terminal, broadly pyramidal or hemispheric, the cymes 
freely branched, bearing 2-6 heads crowded toward the tip; heads 5—6-flowered; involucre 
