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impressed, pubescent, softly villous béneath with gray or brown 
s 
ularly branching, bearing few heads; a leaves much shorter 
than the involucre 
pubescent, the inner oblong-lanceolate, acute, the exposed portion 
glabrous or with a tuft of hairs near the tip; immature achenes 
aca pubescent; pappus white, 5 mm. long. 
Jamaica, Shreve (type), and Maxon 895; both in the herbarium 
of the New York Botanical Garden. 
21. Vernonia intonsa sp. nov. 
hrubby; stems terete, densely tomentose, becoming glabrate 
with age, es branching above; rameal leaves thick, ovate-oblong, 
2-3 cm. long, 1-1.3 cm. wide, obtuse or subacute, entire, rounded 
at fae. very rugose and under the lens apparently scabrous above, 
minutely pubescent on the impressed veins, densely villous beneath 
with gray hairs; petioles 2-3 mm. long; inflorescence a pyramidal 
cluster of several short compact aggregated cymes, the axes tomen- 
tose; bracteal leaves tomentose, equaling or shorter than the heads; 
heads 4-8 on each cyme, sessile, crowded, 11-13-flowered ; involucre 
campanulate, 4 mm. high; scales irregularly imbricated in a few 
densely pubescent; pappus white, the outer series distinct 
Type: Campbell 6ogz, from Jamaica; in the herbarium of the 
New York Botanical Garden. 
(vi) Species-group Fruticosae 
Leaves thick or coriaceous, mostly glabrous and shining above, 
and frequently revolute; heads large, subtended by bracts approxi- 
mating the cauline leaves in size and shape; involucre 7-10 mm. 
high, narrowly campanulate, closely imbricated; achenes usually 
glabrous. Seven species, of Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola. 
22. VERNONIA FRUTICOSA (L.) Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1323. 1806 
Conyza fruticosa L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1209. 1763. 
Vernonia rigida Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1322. 1806. 
Authentic specimens of this species have not been seen. It is 
closely related to V. deptoclada, but was regarded as distinct by 
Schultz, and also by Dr. Britton, who examined Jamaican speci- 
mens at the Kew Herbarium. Schultz defines it in the following 
