18 ARKIV FÖR BOTANIK. BAND 13. N:0 15. 



only in having more elongated and spreading scales with 

 recurved tips. 



A brief description of F. Wrightii may be of some 

 use: Branches densely tomentose, hairs bro\\Ti, spreading. 

 Leaves obovate-oblong, 8 — 9 cm long by 4 cm wide, firm, 

 not coriaceous, glabrous and smooth above, finely pubescent 

 at the veins beneath, remotely denticulate with spinulose 

 teeth at the margin. Heads about 17- flowered. Involucres 

 7 mm high, about 8 — 9 mm broad in press-dried specimens, 

 its scales deltoid, spreading with short, subulate tips, brown- 

 ish-green. Pappus 6 mm long, sordid- tawny, not at all 

 purplish. 



Teriiouia fiillax Gleason. 



Vernonia fallax Gleason, 1913, p. 324. 



Hab. in Cuba: prov. Santa Clara, in montibus Trinidad, 

 ad rupes, alt. 500 m, 12. 3. 10, Britton et Wilson n. 5478. 



I have not seen this species, but from the description 

 it must be a rather good one, though closely related to F. 

 incequis errata Sch.-Bip. 



Tenioiiia iiiaequiserrata Sch.-Bip. 



Tabula nostra I, fig. 4 (folium). 



Ver7ionia ruhricaulis Grisebach, 1862, p. 511 (»forma foliis latioribus») 

 — non H. B. K. 



Vernonia incequiserrata Schultz-Bipontinus, 1863, p. 232; Grisebach, 

 1866, p. 144, excl. var.; Glkason, 1906 b, p. 183; 1913, p. 321. 



Pappi setae interiores subpersistentes, numero 55, te- 

 nues, filiformes, albidse, quam exteriores distinctas, spathu- 

 latge circ. 12-plo longiores. Corolla 10,5 mm longa, tubo 

 sensim dilatato long. Vs corollae, glabro, limbi laciniis apice 

 subtus papulosis. Antherae 3,5 mm longae, ligula long. V? 

 antherae, auriculis breviter apiculato-contractis. 



Hab. in Cuba orientaH. Sept. 1859 — Jan. 1860, Wright 

 n. 285 prior (Bss, CD, orig. spec, D, DC, G, K, KU, P). 



I long endeavoured to keep within the limits of F. inaceqtii- 

 serrata its two varieties, distinguished already by Grisebach, 

 viz. var. angustifolia and var. ohtusijolia. However, Gleason 



