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cending, thickish; panicle contracted, rather loose, the flowering 
branchlets nearly sessile, 2-5 cm. long, densely flower ed; heads 
sessile, 6 mm. long, the scales nearly equalling the white pappus; 
outer scales densely long-hirsute, ovate, with near uniform tips, 
the 
pappus about two-thirds of its length, yellowish, narrowly pale- 
aceous. 
“Fight feet high; Apolo, 4800 ft., July 1, 1902’ il 1431). 
Very near, if not the same as Maser? No. 1 1365 
Vernonia crassifolia (Sect. Scorpicideae) sp. nov. 
Stems stout, lightly angled, the branches el ib igeae ascending, 
puberulent; petioles short and very stout; lades 7-15 cm. long 
h hirsute with the venation ve trong and rather ieee 
ensely flowered; heads 6 mm. long, the involucre in the flowering 
state just equalling the pappus, campanu ate, 7 mm. broad, purple, 
the outer scales ovate, acute, thick, the inner series much longer, 
light-purple, narrower, obtuse: akene short and broad, turbinate, 
the pappus fine, white, the outer paleaceous, half or more the 
length of the aken 
“Ten feet high; eae. 4800 ft., July 12, 19027’ (Vo. 1513). 
Vernonia squamipes (Sect. Paniculatae) sp. nov. 
Minutely strigose; branchlets slender, pee , leafy, deep- 
$3 fae 
beneath, the secondaries about I§ pairs, strongly ascending; pani- 
cles rather small, the branches about t 2-4 cm. long, recurved, the 
heads erect on peduncles about 12 mm. long, thickened upward and 
clothed throughout with densely abucated ovate acute scales; 
involucre prop fe) g, the scales ovate or obovate, 
thickness throughout, strongly 1o-ribbed, dehy roughened; 
pappus nearly twice the length of the akene, coarse, rigid, the outer 
y short, not at allc 
Six feet high, the stem 1 inch in diameter; Tumapasa, 1800 ft., 
Jan. 4, 1902” (Vo. 522). 
