E. L. EKMAN, WEST INDIAN VERNONI^. 93 



Vernoiiia hienicioides CIriseb. 



Tabula nostra V, fig. 5 (habitus). 



Vernonia hieracioidea Grisebach, 1862, p. 511. 

 Gacalia hieracioides Kuntze, 1801, p. 970. 

 Vernonia Orientis Gleason, 1913, p. 330. 



Pappi setae inteiiores persistentes, munero oä. filiformes, 

 tenues, straminese, quam exteriores latae, distinctse circ. lO-plo 

 longiores. Corolla 6 mm longa, tubo glabro, sensim dilatato, 

 long, ultra V.s corollee, glandulis globuliformibus rarissimis vel 

 nullis, limbi laciniis striatulis, apice subtus papillosis. An- 

 therte 2,3 mm longae, ligula brcvi, enervi, long, ^j^ antherse, 

 auriculis brevissime acuminato-apiculatis. 



Hab. in Cuba orientali: prope villam Monte Verde dictam, 

 Jan.— Jul. 1859, Wright n. 1306 (Bss, CD, sub nom. F. di- 

 chroopappcE Sch.-Bip., D, DC, G, orig. spec., KU, ex herb. 

 Grisebach, ex herb. Alex. -Prior, P). 



Though I have not seen the type specimen of V. Orientis 

 Gleason, I have identified this species with V. hieracioides 

 Griseb. The most important features of the new species are 

 the particular structure of the inflorescence and the involucres, 

 as well as the few-flowered heads. Now V. hieracioides has 

 exactly the same inflorescence and involucres, as shown by the 

 type specimen in the Grisebach Herbarium and by its descrip- 

 tion: »panicula fastigiata aphylla ramis ejus glandulo-pilosi- 

 usculis dichotomis vel apice brevissime scorpioideis . . . squa- 

 mis glabriusculis mucronato-acutis patulis». But V. hiera- 

 cioides is said to have 10-f lowered heads, and V. orientis only 

 5-flowered ones? However, the type specimen itself was found 

 to have 6 — 7-f lowered heads, and hence I suppose the numbers 

 found by Grisebach and Gleason to be extreme. 



2. The allies of V. menthaefolia (Poepp.) Less. 

 Vernonia menthjefolia (Poepp. ap. Spr.) Less. 



Tabula nostra VI, fig. 1 (ramus floriger). 



Eupatorium menthcefolium Poeppig ap. Sprengel, 1826, p. 412. 

 Vernonia menthcefolia Lessing, 1829, p. 268; De Candolle, 1836, p. 38; 

 Grisebach, 1862, p. 510; Gleason, 1906 b, p. 197: 1913, p. 331. 

 Vernonia Ottonis Schultz-Bipontinus, 1847. p. 508. 

 Vernonia Orisebachii Schultz-Btpontinus, 1863, p. 231. 



