E. L. EKMAN, WEST INDIAN VERNONI^. 79 



simplex, teres, stiiatulus, inferne subglaber, superne tenuiter 

 appresso-tomentosus, cortice obscure fusco, densiusciile foliatiis. 

 Folia alterna, patentia, sessilia; laminae lineares, ad 4 cm longse, 

 1,5 — 3 mm latae, basi attenuatse, apice breviter acuminatse, 

 membranacese, integerrimse, margine revolutse, discolores, 

 supra atro-virides, tuberculato-scabrae, pubescentes, subtus 

 pilis densis, appressis sericeo-tomentosae, costa supra immersa, 

 subtus exsculpta, nervis obscuris. Inflorescentia cymoso- 

 -scorpioidea, ambitu late ovata, diffusula, sublaxa, cymis diva- 

 ricatis, leviter arcuatis, simplicibus, ad 1 dm longis, 3 — 10- 

 cephalis, calathidiis spatio 1 — 1,5 cm longo disjunctis, bracteis 

 foliaceis suffultis iis duplo — triplo longioribus. Calathidia ses- 

 silia, axillaria, solitaria, circ. 21-flora. Involucrum late in- 

 fundibuliforme, 6 mm altum, explanatum 1 cm latum, squa- 

 mis 3 — 4-seriatis, erectis, appressis, laxis, extimis brevissimis 

 deltoideo-linearibus, mucronatis, intermecliis lanceolato-linea- 

 ribus, intimis linearibus, acutis, basi dorso pallidis, superne 

 violaceo-viridibus, margine pallidioribus, appresse pubescen- 

 tibus, glandulis aureis, sessilibus sparse punctatis. Recepta- 

 culum planum, nudum. Pappi setse interiores persistentes, 

 numero 45, satis tenues, filiformes, albidse, quam exteriores 

 lineari-lanceolatae circ. 12-plo longiores. Corolla 5 mm longa, 

 glabra, tubo sensim dilatato long. ^4 corollse, limbi laciniis 

 subtus apicem versus breviter papillosis. Antherse lineares, 

 1,5 mm longse, ligula long. Y; antherse, auriculis sensim acu- 

 tatis. Achsenia (immatura) dense sericeo-pubescentia, costis 

 indistinctis. 



Vernonia remotiflora Grisebach, 1866, p. 144, p. p. — non L. C. Rich. 



Vernonia stenophylla Gleason, 1906 b, p. 181, p. p.; 1913, p. 308, p. 

 p. — non Less. 



Vernonia angustissima Wright in sched. herb. Grisebach, nunc 

 Goettingen. 



Hab. in Cuba: Wright n. 2786 (Bss, DC, G, orig. spec, 

 K, KU, P, S). 



In general habit this species greatly resembles V. steno- 

 phylla Less., only differing in the broader inflorescence with 

 elongated, spreading cymes. The principal distinction is based 

 upon the floral characters. V. stenophylla Less, has the co- 

 rollas divided to the middle of their length, rather short, linear- 

 -lanceolate anthers with elongated ligula and shorth' acumi- 



