(175) 
The identity of the Peruvian type and the Mexican species is ac- 
cepted on the authority of Hemsley (Biol. Cent. Am. Bot. 2: 73). 
4. VERNONIA ACILEPIS Benth. Vidensk. Meddel. 
1852: 68. 1852 
Herbaceous, erect, 3-4 dm. high; stem thinly pubescent: leaves 
thin, broadly elliptic or rhombic, 4-6 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, 
short-acum minate, entire, narrowed at the base into short margined 
petioles, scabrellate above, sparsely pilose or nearl beneath ; 
inflorescence of 3-5 lax spreading cymes bearing each 4-8 heads; 
bracteal 7 oblong to oblanceolate, 2-3 cm. long; heads about 
15-flowered (fide Bentham), 2-3 cm. distant; involucre narrowly 
aes dale 8 mm. high; scales all erect, lanceolate, subulate- 
tipped, scarious-margined, arachnoid below, puberulent above; 
achenes not seen; pappus brown. 
Type locality and distribution : Costa Rica, Vouduz 13595. 
5. VERNONIA REMOTIFLORA Rich. Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. 
aris I: 112. 1792 
Vernonia sessiliflora Willd. Linnaea 4: 309. 1829. 
Vernonia tricholepis DC. Prodr. §: 54. 1836. 
Herbaceous, 3 dm. high; stem puberulent, prolonged into a single 
terminal cyme; leaves obovate-lanceolat te, 3 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, 
acuminate, subentire, attenuate to a sessile oe Naaek "hispid on both 
, especially oe upper leaves reduced and with heads in 
their axils; involucre campanulate, § mm. hig h; scales erect or 
appressed, lanceolate, sharply subulate- ned sparsely pilose; 
achenes densely pilose, 2 mm. long; pappus white, the outer series 
conspicuous. 
Type locality: Cayenne. 
Distribution: St. Thomas, Oersted, to South America. 
Very close to V. acélepis Benth., but differing in the pubescence 
of the leaves. 
6. Vernonia hirsutivena sp. nov. 
Apparently herbaceous ; ae finely striate, appressed-pubescent ; 
leaves thin, ovate-lanceolate, 7-g cm. long, 3~4 cm. wide, or the 
upper smaller, acute or sho Ee eunineee. entire, obtuse or subrotund 
at base, scabrellate above, thinly and softly pubescent beneath; 
petioles 3 mm. long; inflorescence small, of a few sparingly 
branched cymes from the upper axils, ahien are leafless or with 
bracts at the asia: as all sessile, about 21-flowered; invo- 
lucre nearly hemispheric, 6—7 mm. high; scales pubescent, loosely 
and irregularly tenia a the tips erect or somewhat spreading, 
