E. L. EKMAN, WEST INDIAN VERNONI^. 87 



lathidia parva. Receptaciduvi margine alveolarum lacerato- 

 -fimbriatum. Pappi setce interiores persistentes, firmulce, fili- 

 formes aut paullulo complanatce, numero 30 — 40, albidce, exte- 

 riores distinctce. Corolla glabra, aut limhi laciniis dorso pilosis. 

 Anther ce 1,2 — 2,4 mm lomjoi, lig iila long. \'^ — ^Lantherce. Achce- 

 nia tenuiter pubescentia. 



To this subsection I refer four species, V. scorpioides 

 (Lam.) Pers., V. brachiata Benth., V. megaphylla Hieron., 

 and a new species from the catingas of Bahia, collected by 

 Ule. n. 7236. V. brachiata and V. megaphylla are closely 

 allied, as are V. scorpioides and the new species from Bahia. 

 In the West Indies only V . scorpioides occurs. It is found 

 there in the islands of Tobago, Trinidad and Margarita, the 

 flora of which greatly resembles that of South America. 



Vernonia scorpioides (Lam.) Pers. 



Tabula nostra VE, fig. 2 (inflorescentia). 



Conyza scorpioides Lamarck, 1786, p. 88. 



Vernonia scorpioides Persoon, 1807, p. 404; Lessing, 1829, p. 282; 

 1831, p. 658; De Candolle, 1836, p. 41; Schultz-Bitontinus, 1847, p. 510; 

 Grisebach, 1861, p. 353; Baker, 1873, p. 101; Gleason, 1906 b. p. 193. 



Vernonia subrepanda Persoon, 1807, p. 404. 



Vernonia tournefortiodes Humboldt, Bonpland, Kunth, 1820, p. 34; 

 Lessing, 1829, p. 281; 1831, p. 657; De Candolle, 1836, p. 41. 



Lepidaploa scorpioides Cassini, 1823, p. 16. 



Vernonia centriflora Link et Otto, 1828, t. 55. 



Stachelina solidaginoides Willdenow herb. ap. Lessing, 1829, p. 281. 



Vernonia flavescens Lessing, 1831, p. 657; De Candolle, 1836, p. 41. 



Ghrysocoma repanda Vellozo, 1825, p. 306 (sec. ed. Netto); 1827, 

 ver o edita 1835, t. 13.' 



Vernonia longeracemosa Mart. ap. De Candolle, 1836, p. 42. 



Vernonia lanuginosa Gardner, 1S46, p. 219. 



Vernonia cincta Grisebach, 1879, p. 162. 



Cacalia cincta Kuntze, 1891, p. 969. 



Cacalia scorpioides Kuntze, 1891, p. 971. 



Cacalia tournefortioides Kuntze, 1891, p. 971. 



' The first edition (1825) of the descriptions to Vellozo's Flora flumi- 

 nensis is an extremely rare work. It was reprinted in 1881 (in Archives do 

 Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro). The plates to the descriptions, the 

 well-known Florae fluminensis Icones, were not to be had in European 

 libraries before 1835. From the descriptions it is quite impossible to iden- 

 tify the plants concerned. Like Otto Kuntze I prefer to consider the 

 species of Vellozo as published in the year 1835. 



