E. L. EKMAN, WEST INDIAN VERNONI^. 15 



tima remotiuscula, summa congesta, 9- — li-flora. iiivo- 

 lucrum cylindricum, 8 — 1) mm longum, 3 mm latum, basi 

 rotundatum, squamis imbricatis circ. (i-seriatis, extimis ova- 

 to-triangularibus, mucronulatis, marginibus apiceque« floccoso- 

 -tomentosis, intermediis oblongis, obtusis, intimis elongatis, 

 ligulatis, velut intermedin subglabris, obtusiuscuiis, omni- 

 bus obsoletissime carinatis, minutissime ciliolatis, fuscis. 

 Pappi seta} interiores persistentes, numero 40. firmse, filiformes, 

 G, 5 mm longa?, albo-straminea?, exterioribus distinctis, spathu- 

 lato-linearibus circ. 7-plo longiores. Flores desunt, specimi- 

 nibus visis nempe fructus tempore eollectis. Achsenium 

 obscure tetragonum, subcompressum, inferne obsolete 10- 

 costatum, glaberrimum, glandulosum, 3 mm longum. 



Hab. in Cuba orientali: C. Wright, ann. 1856 — 7, sub 

 num. 284 (Bss, D, DC, spec. orig.). 



The most striking feature of the new species is its very 

 narrow, cylindrical involucres and, connected with this, the 

 small number of flowers in the heads. I did not know any 

 other species of the subsection having these characters, until 

 Gleason in his »Studies » described a V. purpurata, having 

 also cjdindrical involucres and very few-flowered heads. 

 Yet the two species are not identical, as proved by the follow- 

 ing differences. The leaves of F. angusticeps are membrana- 

 ceous, not »heavy, rigid, coriaceous », flat, not »strongly 

 rugose above», not »shining», puberulent at the whole of the 

 lower surface, not only »along the veins beneath»; the brac- 

 teal leaves are present below all heads; the heads are 9 — 11- 

 -flowered, not »8-flowered»; the involucres are 8 — 9 mm high, 

 not »6 mm high», their scales are rounded at the tips, short- 

 ly apiculated, not »sharply acute». broA\Tiish, not »purplc- 

 -brown at their exposed tips». 



I think the reason why the species has not been described 

 long before is that it is so poorly represented in herbaria. 

 I only saw it in those of Geneva. 



Yernonia vimiiuilis Gleason. 



Tabula nostra I, fig. 1 (folium et cyma). 

 Yernonia viminalis Gleason, 1906 b, p. 184; 1913, p. 321. 



Pappi setae interiores persistentes, numero 40, tenues, 

 filiformes, exterioribus distinctis circ. 10-plo longiores. Co- 



