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Type: Campébell 6152, from Jamaica; in the herbarium of the 
New York Botanical Garden. 
31. Vernonia expansa sp. nov. 
A straggling shrub 2.5-3 m. high, branching above; stems 
slender, striate, asin leaves num midge rather crowded, 
thin, divaricate, ovate, 3-5 cm. long, 1.7-2.7 cm. wide, acute or 
subacuminate, entire, he or broadly Cade at base, sparsely 
and finely oe or nearly glabrous above, the veins elevated on 
the upper side; petioles 3 mm. long; upper and axile leaves smaller, 
broadly elliptic, obtuse; inflorescence of several short cymes ter- 
Hawi tee the branches and in the upper axils, bearing each 3 
heads; bracteal leaves equaling or much shorter than the involucre ; 
heads crowded, sessile, 11-flowered; involucre broadly campanu- 
late, 4 mm. high; scales all appressed, closely imbricated, glabrous 
r nearly so, the outer broadly ovate, the inner lance-oblong, all 
rounded at the tip; achenes 2 mm. long, densely gray-pubescent; 
pap pa s brown. 
: Harris 8796, from Jamaica, altitude 2,000 feet; in the 
ie of the New York Botanical Garden. 
(viii) Species-group Long7zfoliae 
Heads sessile, crowded in short divaricate cymes bearing each 
1-7 heads, subtended by bracts resembling the cauline leaves in 
size and shape; leaves various in shape, thinly pubescent. Three 
species, extending from the Windward Islands to Hispaniola. 
32. VERNONIA LONGIFOLIA Pers. Syn. 2: 404. 1807 
Vernonia punctata Sw. Kgl. Vet. Acad. Stockh. Handl. 1827: 
yz. 1828. 
Leaves elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 6-11 cm. long, 2-4 cm. 
wide, acuminate or rarely acute 
Type locality: Guadeloupe. 
Distribution: Guadeloupe, St. Kitts, Martinique, Dominica. 
33- VERNONIA ALBICAULIS Pers. Syn. 2: 404. 1807 
Lupatorium obtustfolium Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 1768. 1804. 
Conyza glabra Willd. 2. c. 1940. 
Vernonia emarginata Wikstr. Kgl. Vet. Acad. Stockh. Hand. 
1827: 73. 182 
Vernonia Vahitana Lessing, Linnaea 4: 306. 1829 
Vernonia longifolia Vahliana Urban, Symb. Ant. cs ae: 1900. 
