( 184 ) 
campanulate-cylindric, 8 mm. high; scales closely imbricated, ap- 
pressed, thinly arachnoid, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the inner obtuse 
or rounded and mucr omlate; achenes glabrous, 3.5 mm. long; 
pappus sordid-purple or taw 
Type locality and peer Cub 
Schultz’s species is based on Wright 285. This number, how- 
ever, includes at least one other species. 
26. VERNONIA SPRENGELIANA Sch.-Bip. Jour. Bot. 1: 232. 1863 
Stem erect, cinereous-pubescent ; re crowded, ascending, 
narrowly ona ceolate, 7-10 cm. long, 1.2-1.8 cm. wide, very 
rugose and nee above, densely tome qe beneath, gradually 
attenuate from above the lea to a truncate base; heade 4 in short 
crowded terminal cymes; involucre 10 mm. high, narrowly cam- 
panulate; scales all ene es oblong, the outer acute, the middle 
and inner r oa and minutely apiculate, all thinly pubescent with 
scattered hai 
Type ete and distribution: San Domingo, Wright, Parry 
& Brummel 273. 
27. Vernonia viminalis sp. nov. 
Apparently suffrutescent; stem terete, finely striate, cinereous or 
tomentose, divaricately branching above; leaves thin, ascending, 
narrowly oblong or elliptic-oblong, 8-14 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, 
somewhat falcate or asymmetrical, se eran en entire or mi- 
nutely denticulate, attenuate at base, rugose and scabrellate above, 
pilose with soft white hairs beneath, pore veined; petioles 
white, 8 mm. long, the outer series minu 
Type: Wright 285, from Cuba; in - neainn of Columbia 
University. 
28. VERNONIA VALENZUELANA Rich. in Sagra, Hist.' Fis. Pol. 
at. Cuba Ir: 33. 1850 
Vernonia rigida Valenzuelana Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cuba 144. 1866. 
Stems woody, thinly pubescent; leaves rigid, coriaceous, narrowly 
oblong or linear-oblong, 8-1ro cm. long, 0.8-1.7 cm. wide, acute, 
entire or remotely denticulate, revolute, truncate or rounded or s sub- 
