E. L. EKMAN, WEST INDIAN VERNONIiE. 21 



Very near to this species comes a plant collected by 

 EGGERs'in Cuba, Loma del Jaguey, 22. 4. 89, n. 4982 (KU). 

 It differs in having lanceolate leaves, which are very bullale 

 and nearly glabrous beneath. The only specimen seen is 

 very imperfect. 



Ternonia Spreiii^eliaiia Sch.-Bip. 



Tabula nostra I, fig. 8 (cyma). 



Eupatorium salvifolium Beetero in sched. ap. Sprengel, 182G, p. 412. 

 Vernonia Sprengeliana Schultz-Bipontinus, 1863, p. 232; Gleason, 

 1906 b, p. 184; 1913, p. 321. 



Pappi setaB intcriores persistentes, numero 45 — 50, tenues, 

 albidse, exterioribus distinctis 8-plo longiores. Corolla 9 

 — 9,5 mm longa, glabra, tubo Ys corollse long., limbi laciniis 

 apice subtus papillosis, Antherse 3 — 3,5 mm longae, ligula 

 long. Vs antherse, auriculis brevibus, brevissime acuminatis. 



Hab. in Hispaniola: Bertero (CD, orig. spec); Schom- 

 BURGK (K); jVIayerhoff (B, CD, KU); Picarda n. 301, 301 

 b (KU); prope Pétionville, anno 1889, Picarda n. 885 

 (KU); in montibus Sierra del Palo quemado, locis calcareis, 

 10. 5. 87, Eggers n. 1887 (Br, D, DC, K, KU); in colhbus 

 siccis prope Gonaives, mense Dec. 1898, Buch n. 10 (KU); 

 ibidem, mense Nov. 1900, Buch n. 523 (KU); prov. Barahona, 

 Las Salinas, Los Charcos, alt. 1200 m, Sept. 1911, Miguel 

 FuERTES n. 1388 (KU). 



A very distinct and alwa^^s readily recognized species! 

 Though there is considerable variation as to the size of the 

 heads and the density of the inflorescence, the material of 

 this species must be considered as unusually uniform. 



ScHULTZ-BiPONTiNUS quotes two synonyms of the spe- 

 cies, Eupatorium salicinum Lam. and Ewpatorium salvi- 

 folium Bertero. The latter belongs to the species and is 

 a mere name without any description. Eiipatorium salici- 

 num Lam. is a true Eupatorium, having opposite leaves, though 

 in shape somewhat resembling those of V. Sprengeliana, and 

 was collected in Peru. Now Kurt Sprengel, unfortunately, 

 in his Systema referred Eupatorium salvifolium Bertero 

 to Eupatorimn salicinum Lam., whence the quotation of Schultz- 

 -BiPONTiNUS. Of course, Eupatorium salvifolium Bertero 



