E. L. EKMAN, WEST INDIAN VERNONI^. 6 



B the Berlin Herbarium. 



BB the Boissier-Barbey Herbarium, Geneva. 



Br the Herbarium of British Museum. 



Bss the Boissier Herbarium, Geneva. 



CD the CossoN-DuRAND Herbarium, Paris. 



D - the Delessert Herbarium, Geneva. 



DC the De Candolle Herbarium, Geneva. 



F the Florence Herbarium. 



G the Göttingen Herbarium. 



H the Copenhagen Herbarium. 



K — the Kew Herbarium, London. 



KU the Krug-Urban Herbarium, Berlin. 



L the Lund Herbarium. 



M — the Munich Herbarium. 



P the Paris Herbarium. 



Petr the St. Petersburg Herbarium. 



Prodr the Prodromus Herbarium, Geneva. 



R the Regnell Herbarium, Stockholm. 



S the Stockholm Herbarium. 



U the Upsala Herbarium. 



I regret very much that I have had no oppoii;unity to 

 visit the Desfontaines Herbarium in Florence, containing 

 some important types of Cassini. 



Quite recently (July 1913, in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. 

 40, No. 7) Gleason has described a set of species from the 

 West Indies, of which I have not seen authentic specimens. 

 Alas, I cannot delay the publicati'on of this paper until du- 

 plicate specimens are available in Europe, for I am ver}' soon 

 to undertake a journey to Hispaniola and eastern Brazil. 



Finally I beg Prof. Ign. L^rban in Berlin to accept my 

 sincerest thanks for his most valuable assistance in every 

 possible way. Further, I am deeply indebted to Prof. C. 

 A. M. Lindman in Stockholm for his never-failing kindness, 

 and innumerable valuable hints and informations. 



General remarks. 



In the present paper only species of the genus Vernonia 

 have been dealt with. 



The delimination of the genus adopted here, on the whole, 

 is the same as that of Hoffman in Engler and Prantl: Die 



