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



10 — 12-plo longiores. Corolla tenuis, 4,5 mm longa, tubo sen- 

 sim clilatato ^4 long, corollse, glabro, limbi laciniis dorso api- 

 cem versus pilis nonnullis instructis. Antherse brevissimae, 

 0,8 mm longae, ligula enervi fere \',- long, antherse, auriculis 

 acutatis. 



Hab. in insul. Baham. New Providence, 15. 2. 07, N. L. 

 Britton n. 5374 (KU). — Cuba: prov. Pinar del Rio, prope 

 Los Palacios, 3—4. 1. 12, Shafer n. 11656 (KU.) — Ja- 

 maica: Irwin hills, in cultis, anno 1849, Wtjllschlägel n. 

 885 (M); anno 1850, R. C. Alexander-Prior (G); ad Gor- 

 donstown, alt. 300 m, 21. 1. 88, Eggers n. 3421 (Bss, D, 

 KU, P); ibidem, alt. 360 m, 21. 1. 88, Eggers n. 3421 a 

 (KU); Banana River, alt. 360 m, 21. 1. 88, Eggers n. 3468 

 (KU); Hope, 22. 10. 97, Harris n. 6865 (KU); Queen Anna's 

 Bay, in margine viarum, 19. 3. 97, Churchill sine num. 

 (KU); in montibus humilioribus prope Kingston, 17. 7. 97, 

 O. Hansen sine num. (KU). — Hispaniola: prope Port au 

 Prince, Mart. 1892, Picarda n. 987 (KU); Cap Haytien, 16. 7. 87. 

 Eggers n. 2843 (KU); prope Labrante, April. 1889, Buch n. 

 42 (KU). — St. Thomas: 10. 2. 06, Raunki^r n. 1917 (H). — 

 St. Croix, coll. baud not. (H). — Guadeloupe: Le Baillif, 

 ad ripam maris, anno 1892, Duss n. 2484 (KU); prope Basse- 

 -Terre, anno 1892, Duss n. 2517 (KU). — Grenada: ad ripam 

 maris frequens, anno 1893, G. W. Smith n. 106 (KU); 9. 3. 95, 

 Broadway n. 432 (KU); St. Georges, Coopers Hill, 4. 3. 05, 

 Broadway n. 2542 (D). — Tobago: ad stationem botani- 

 cam, 11. 4. 09, Broad w^ay n. 2542 (KU, S). 



A common, intertropical weed! 



Species excluded. 



Vernonia chiiiensis (Lam.) Lessing, Linnaea, Band 6, 1831, 



p. 105. 



Hab. in Guadeloupe: prope Gombegre, locis incultis 

 sparsa, Juni. 1900, Duss n. 4032. 



Gleason in his »Studies » lists this well-known cosmopol- 

 itan species under its old generic name, Cyanthillium Blume, 

 thus indicating the plant to be generically different from 

 Vernonia, chiefly because of its very caducous, uniseriate 

 pappus. I agree with him in assigning generic rank to the 



