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rounded or obtuse at the base, glabrous and shining but rugose above, 
minutely puberulent below, with prominent reticulated veins; inflor- 
escence of numerous spreading cymes 1-2 dm. long; heads sessile, 
I-1.5 cm. distant; involucre broadly campanulate, § mm. high; 
scales closely imbricated, the outer triangular-lanceolate, ciliate and 
aarti with a prominent midvein, the inner lanceolate, taper- 
oa flat, obtuse, spreading tip 1 mm. wide; achenes 2 m 
ices hirsute with erect white oe pappus nearly white, 5 mm. 
long, the outer series very distinc 
Type locality: ‘* Volcano of cana Veraguas.” 
Distribution: Costa Rica, PittZer 3706, 7727, 4931, 6887, south 
to Panama. 
In general habit and foliage much like V. Schéedeana, but with 
more pubescent involucre and differently shaped scales. 
37. VERNONIA VERNICOSA Klatt, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 35: 
294. 1896 
Shrubby, erect (? or climbing); stems striate, glabrous; leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, 8-10 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide, coriaceous, acu- 
inflorescence loose, the cymes few, flexuous; bracteal leaves oblong, 
puberulent beneath, the largest 3 cm. long I cm. wide; man 
heads not bracteate ; heads nearly sessile, distant, 50- -fowered, 
de Klatt; involucre campanulate-cylindric, 10 mm, igh; outer 
scales lanceolate, the intermediate ovate-lanceolate, the inner oblong, 
in many series, regularly imbricated, erect or barely spreading, gla- 
brous, green, scarious-margined, acuminate; achenes (immature) 
densely hirsute; pappus white, 7 mm. long, the outer series large, 
dist 
=. locality: Rio Varilla, Costa Rica. 
Distribution: Costa Rica, Péttier 9860, 7013, 7065, Hoffmann 305. 
VERNONIA VERNICOSA comMosa Greenman, Proc. Am. Acad. 39: 
93- 1903 
Resembling the type, but with pubescent stem and _ strigose- 
hirsute leaves. 
Type locality and distribution: Costa Rica, Zonduz 23607. 
Il. Leprpapioa, Scorpioideae reductae 
§ Leptospermoides DC. Prodr. 5: 17. 1836. 
Heads in reduced scorpioid cymes, the individual cymes with 
few heads or frequently but one, in which case they appear solitary 
