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and scattered among the upper foliage leaves. West Indian shrubs, 
with freely branched stems and mostly obtuse or rounded leaves. 
38. VERNONIA LEPIDOTA Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cuba 145. 1866 
Suffrutescent or frutescent, ascending, 3 m. high; stems and 
branches closely brown-tomentose; leaves oblong or obovate-ob- 
long, 5-9 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 
entire, narrowed below into short petioles, green and lepidote 
above, brown and densely lepidote, with prominent veins, beneath; 
inflorescence of subcapitate clusters; heads short-peduncled, about 
21-flowered; involucre broadly campanulate, 5-6 mm. high; scales 
closely imbricated in few series, all acute or subacute and pubes- 
cent, the inner ae the outer triangular-lanceolate; ‘‘ achenes 
smooth ; pappus Eu 
Type Coe ‘¢Cuba or., pr. Baracoa, in vertice montis 
Yunque.” 
Distribution: Cuba. 
The type specimen has apparently immature heads on strongly 
angled connivent peduncles 1 cm. long, subtended by short oblong 
bracts. 
39. VERNONIA COMPLICATA Griseb. Cat. Pl]. Cuba 143. 1866 
A densely branched shrub, 5 dm. high; stem nearly terete, 
€ 
both << complicate, abruptly contracted into margined petioles 
3-4 long; heads sessile, solitary among the upper leaves, 
about pene involucre campanulate, mm. high; scales 
loosely and irregularly imbricated, tomentose on the back, acu- 
minate, the outer ovate-lanceolate, the inner lanceolate; achene 
densely hirsute, 2 mm. long; pappus nearly white, 4 mm. long. 
Type locality and distribution: eastern Cuba. 
40. VERNONIA arcTatra Gleason, Bull. Torrey Club 33: 185. 
1906 
hrubby, much branched, 3-8 dm. high; aie broadly aa 
to obovate-oblong, acute or cS entire, acute or a 
the base, brown-tomentose beneath, glabrate above, 
long, 0.6-1.1 cm. wide; jadoresc ence ‘flattened, consisting ot sev- 
eral short leafy irregular scorpioid cymes; involucre campanulate, 
4-5 mm. high; scales lanc eolate, acute, tomentose; achenes pubes- 
cent, 2.5 mm. long; pappus nearly whit 
Type locality and distribution : New Providence Island, Bahamas. 
