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Vernonia digitata (Sect. Scorpicideae) sp. no 
hes and inflorescence gray- tee the lower leaf- 
surfaces sparsely puberulent; stems erect, apparently simple, 
densely flowered; heads sessile, 5-6 mm. long, the involucre about 
two-thirds of the length, broadly campanulate, loosely imbricated, 
the scales ovate and obtuse below, becoming lanceolate and acute 
within; corolla a little shorter than the pappus, slenderly infun- 
dibular, the lobes long, spreading, ae toward the end, the white 
anther-appendages large, spreading; akene short; pappus white, 
ne, the outer very short and oor minutely broadened at the 
“Six feet high; Mapiri, 1600 ft., Sept. 24, 1901”’ (Wo. 773). 
Species near V’. secunda. 
Vernonia Conwayi (Sect. Scorpioideae) sp. nov 
ray-tomentose, the upper leaf-surfaces finely strigose; branches 
elongated, slender, very flexuose, sulcate; leaves (only the upper 
seen) 12-20 cm. lon ~7 cm. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, 
amplexicaul, the basal lobes rounded, the margin regularly and 
Seda crenate; panicle very large much branched, ligh 
linear, two-thirds as long as the pappus, strongly ribbed; pappus 
white, rather fine, the outer short, abundant, narrowly paleaceous. 
“Fight ft. high; near Inglis-Inglis, 5500 ft., Aug. 16, 1902” 
(No. 1493). 
Vernonia ixiamensis — Oligocephala) sp. nov 
cabrous; stems strict, the branches erect, senate elongated, 
purple, lightly pilose ae only slightly scabrous: leaves erect, 
2-3 dm. long, 10-18 mm. wide, linear, mostl obtuse, closely 
? 
sess argin minutely toothed, strongly revolute; t and 
rigid, rugose, lightly shining above, the hea enation coarsely 
ret €, prominent on both sides; heads few, distantly (mostly 
numerous, lanceolate, ‘acuminate and pungent; corollas rather 
