(126) 
stout, dilated above, the lobes long and spreading; style-branches 
elongated, tapering; "akene 1.5 mm. Sat narrowly conic, strongly 
ribbed, the pappus white, coarse, 8 mm. long, the outer about 
two-thirds the length of the akene, aces paleaceous. 
“Five ft. high; Ixiamas, 1500 ft., Dec. 24, 1901” (Wo. 284). 
Vernonia densipaniculata sp. nov. 
Scabrous, cog the eee ferruginous-tomentose lower leaf- 
surfaces; stems rather stout, purple, erect-branched; leaves 5-10 
cm. long, oe mm. wide, ance-ovate, mostly inaequilateral, 
m 
ee rather densely distributed (about 3-5 mm. apart); involucres 
m. long, broadly epee ta nulate-turbinate, exceeded by about 
eee iG s length by the dark-brown pappus; scales of the involucre 
ather , loo i 
coarse, rigid, the outer about two-thirds the length of the conical, 
short, densely hirsute akene 
“Four ft. high; Cea. Sooo ft., July 29, 1902” (No. 1534). 
ss filipes sp. nov. 
nely seminal dae Stems 2.5-5 dm. high, very 
gence simple or one or more erect branches, terete, striate, 
purple, pee ee the inflorescence very loosely and openly 
paniculate, with very slender branches. Leaves sessile, but with 
“Hills near Apolo, Ges ft. alt., Feb. 20, 1902” (No. 124) 
