14 ARKIV FÖR BOTANIK. BAND 1!^. N:0 15. 



Pappi setae interiores persistentes, pumero 70. teniies, 

 filiformes, straminese, exterioribus subfiliformibus circ. 8- 

 -plo longiores. Corolla 9 mm longa, tiibo long. ^4 corollse, 

 glabro. Antherse 3 mm longse, ligula brevi, fere '/9 long, an- 

 therae, auriculis brevibus, in apicem obtusiusculiim svibito 

 contractis. 



Hab. in Cuba: Ramon de la Sagra, sine num. (KU, 

 P, orig. spec.); Wright n. 284 (KU, S), n. 2785 (G, KU). 



Ternoni.a piirpurata Gleason. 



Vcrnonia piirpurata Gleason, 1913, p. 322. 



Hab. in Cuba orientali: Sierra Maestro, in monte Ji- 

 quarito, alt. 1020 m, 18. 9. 06, Taylor n. 544. 



I have seen no specimens of this species. From the de- 

 scription it comes near to V. angusticeps Ekman; the differ- 

 ences will be discussed under that species. 



Yernoiiia angusticeps Ekman n. sp. 



Tabula nostra I, fig. 3 (folium et cyraa). 



Herba suffruticosa, perennis. Caulis (pars superior tan- 

 tum adest) erectus, satis validus, verisimiliter metralis, 4 

 — 5 mm diam., inferne simplex, superne ramosus, teres, stri- 

 atus, superne praesertim pilis intricatis, cinereo-fuscis floccoso- 

 -tomentosus, densiuscule foliosus. Folia patentia-deflexa, bre- 

 viter petiolata, petiolo 3 — 4 mm longo, supra canaliculato, 

 floccoso-tomentoso; laminse lanceolato-oblongae, 8 — 9 cm lon- 

 gae, 2,4 — 2,6 cm latse, apice acuto-acuminatae, basi oblique 

 truncatae, firmulae, fusco-virides, integrse, margine subpla- 

 nae, remote denticulatae, supra glabriusculae, subnitidae, sub- 

 laeves, reticulatae, subtus pallidiores, piloso-puberulae, te- 

 nuiter, tamen distincte areolatae, costa valida, subtus pulchre 

 prominente, nervis utriusque lateris numero 12 — 14, arcuatis, 

 exsculptis, nervulis distinctis, anastomosantibus. Inflo- 

 rescentia cymoso-scorpioidea. satis ampla, sublucida, cymis 

 erecto-patulis, iter iterumque ramificatis, strictiusculis, maxi- 

 mis 12 cm longis, 10^ — 15-cephalis; bracteis foliaceis, calathi- 

 diis multoties longioribus. Calathidia axillaria, sessilia, in- 



