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13. Vernonia ventosa sp. nov. 
Vernonia arborescens divaricata Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 353, 
in part. 1861. 
Suffrutescent or shrubby, 14-30 dm. ee branching above 
stems striate, softly eg Nee leave bright-green, thin 
ovate-lanceolate, 7-10 cm. 2-4 cm, wi e, tapering to an 
acute tip or subacuminate, aa rounded or broadly obtuse at 
mm. lon xile leaves similar; inflorescence loose, of 3-many 
divaricately spreading, straight or curved, sparingly branched 
cymes 1-2 dm. long; bracteal ae lanceolate, long-acuminate, 
th p m. | cm. wide, the uppermost 
barely exceeding the involucre; ene -I.5 cm. apart, ee 
about 21-flowered; involucre broadly campanulate, 5-6 mm. high; 
late with a carinate midnerve, the inner lanceolate; achenes pubes- 
cent, 2 mm. long; pappus white, 5 mm. long, the outer series 
distinct. 
Type: Duss 303, 304, g069 from Martinique; in the herbarium 
of the New York Botanical Garden. 
Distribution: Martinique, St. Vincent, Guadeloupe. 
14. VERNONIA BORINQUENSIS Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 390. 1903 
Shrubby, 5-30 dm. high, branching above; stem striate, slender, 
glabrous or nearly so; leaves ae or pean reflexe d, firm 
ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 4-6 cm. , 1.5-2 cm. wide, acuminate, 
entire, somewhat revolute, ae or ee at on ee Tugose 
smaller; inflorescence lax, of numerous spreading, branching, 
exuous cymes up to 15 cm. long, the axes more or less pubescent; 
bracteal leaves resembling the cauline in shape, the lower 2.5-3. 
sessile, 1-2 apart, about 18-flowered; involucre 6 mm. high, 
turbinate-campanulate; scales loosely imbricated, the outer some- 
what spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, abrous or nearly so; 
achenes 1.5-2 mm. long, densely pubescent; pappus tawny, 5 mm. 
long. 
Type locality and distribution: Porto Rico. 
Specimens of the variety Sta//éz Urban (4. c. 391) have not 
been seen. 
