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Stems 3-5 m. high, with glabrous branches and foliage; leaves numerous, the blades 
oblong or elliptic-oblong, 3-4 cm. long, 1—-1.5 cm. wide, acute, entire or with a few minute 
callous teeth, narrowed to an acute base, glandular-punctate on both sides, on petioles 3-4 
mm. long; inflorescence large, hemispheric, glabrous except a little pubescence on the peduncles; 
heads short-peduncled, 1-flowered; involucre campanulate, pale-brown or straw-colored, 5-6 
mm. high; scales glabrous on the back, ciliate, sharply acute, the outer ovate, the inner oblong; 
achenes villous, 2.5-3 mm. long; pappus white, 7-8 mm. long, the outer series capillary 
irregular in length. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico. 
DISTRIBUTION: Michoacan, Morelos, and Guerrero. 
8. Eremosis tarchonanthifolia (DC.) Gleason, Bull. N. Y. 
Bot. Gard. 4: 230. 1906. 
Monosis tarchonanthifolia DC. Prodr. 5:77. 1836. 
Oliganthes Karwinskti Schultz-Bip. Linnaea 20: 505. 1847. 
Vernonia tarchonanthifolia Schultz-Bip. Linnaea 20: 507. 1847. 
Cacalia tarchonanthifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 970. 1891. 
Stems 3-6 m. high, the branches closely gray-tomentose when young, becoming thinly 
tomentose or glabrate with age; leaf-blades lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 5-10 cm. long, 
1.5—3 cm. wide, short-acuminate or acute, entire or remotely and minutely denticulate, narrowed 
at base to a petiole 4-10 mm. long, glabrous and glandular to finely tomentose above, finely 
gray-tomentose beneath and on the petioles; inflorescence pyramidal or hemispheric, 5—10 
em. wide; heads crowded, sessile or short-peduncled, 1- or 2-flowered; involucre campanulate 
to narrowly turbinate, 5-6 mm. high; outer scales triangular-ovate, the inner longer, sharply 
acute or subacuminate, purplish, glabrous, or slightly tomentose and resinous; achenes thinly 
pubescent and glandular, 2.5 mm. long; pappus yellowish-white, the bristles 7 mm. long, the: 
outer series capillary, about 1 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico. 
DISTRIBUTION: Oaxaca. 
9. Eremosis angusta Gleason, sp. nov. 
Stems shrubby, branched, closely and finely cinereous-tomentulose; leaf-blades thin, 
firm, elliptic-lanceolate, the largest 7 cm. long, 18 mm. wide, acute, entire, gradually narrowed 
to an acute base, minutely scabrous-puberulent above, thinly tomentulose and resinous 
beneath, with prominent veins; petioles tomentulose, 5-10 mm. long; inflorescence compact, 
hemispheric, 10 cm. broad, with tomentulose branches; heads 1-flowered, crowded, sessile 
or short-peduncled; involucre narrowly cylindric, 7-8 mm. high, straw-colored; outer scales 
thinly tomentose, broadly ovate to subrotund, obtuse or rounded, darker brown at tip, minutely 
cuspidate, with prominent midvein; inner scales prolonged, appressed, narrow, less than 1 
mm. wide, acute, scarious-margined, sparsely tomentulose near the edge, minutely puberulent 
to almost glabrous on the back, the midvein prominent and extending into a mucro; achenes 
black, 2 mm. long, hirsute; pappus white, 6 mm. long, the outer series filiform, irregular in 
length. 
Type collected at Gualan, Zacapa, Guatemala, alt. 125 meters, Kellerman 6132 (herb. Field 
Museum no. 195639). 
10. Eremosis callilepis (Schultz-Bip.) Gleason. 
Vernonia Steetzii callilepis Schultz-Bip.; Seeman, Bot. Voy. Herald 297. 1856. 
Eremosis foliosa Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 228, excl. syn. 1906. 
Stems shrubby, freely branched, somewhat flexuous, white-tomentose above, becoming 
glabrate with age; leaf-blades thick and firm, ovate or ovate-oblong, 4.5—-6.5 cm. long, 2-4 em. 
wide, or the upper much reduced, broadest at or below the middle, acute or abruptly suba- 
cuminate, entire or remotely denticulate with low, sharp, callous teeth, obtuse, rounded, or 
subcordate at base, finely reticulate above and silvery-tomentose when young, becoming 
floccose or glabrate in age, closely and permanently silvery-tomentose beneath; petioles 2—4 
mm. long; inflorescence small, compact, hemispheric, 5-10 cm. wide, its branches closely 
