( 190 ) 
41. VERNONIA OBCORDATA Gleason, Bull. Torrey Club 33: 187. 
190 
much branched shrub 6-9 dm. high, with stiff crooked branches ; 
heads few, eae sessile among t the upper leaves; involucre cam- 
panulate, 4-5 mm. high; scales ovate-lanceolate or the inner nar- 
rower, acute, mene achenes densely hirsute, 2-2.5 mm. long; 
pappus yellow. 
Type locality and distribution: Little Inagua Island, Bahamas. 
42. VERNONIA BAHAMENSIS Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 352. 1861 
Shrubby, 2 m. tall, repeatedly branched; leaves crowded, spat- 
ulate, oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, entire, rounded at the tip, 
and varying from mucronate to eee ee etuse, narrowed at the 
base into margined petioles, 2—3.5 cm. long, including the petiole, 
0.5-1.2 cm. uae heads few, single, sessile among the upper 
leaves, 8-13-flowered; involucre campanulate, 3-4 mm. high; 
scales ovate- lanceolate, tomentose, sharply acute; achenes densely 
hirsute, 2-2.5 mm. long; pappus nearly white 
Type locality distribution: Bahama Tie 
III. Lerrmapioa, Scorpiotdeae aggregatae 
Heads large, sessile or very short-peduncled, aggregated in dense 
subcapitate clusters terminating the stems and branches. Species 
3 or 4, of Cuba, Hispaniola, and possibly of St. Thomas. 
43. VERNONIA BUXIFOLIA (Cass.) Lessing, Linnaea 4: 313. 1829 
Lepidaploa buxtfolia Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. 26: 18. 1823. 
Proustia domingensis Spreng. Syst. 3: 502. 1826. 
Vernonia domingensis DC. Prodr. 5: 30. 1836. 
Tall woody vine climbing on trees ; branche sl aeaieas the young 
twigs pubescent; leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong or oblong-obo- 
vate, 2-3 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, acute, entire par somewhat 
revolute, narrowed at base into petioles 1-2 mm. long, glabrous 
on both sides, shining above; inflorescence subcapitate; heads 3- 
6, sessile or on short peduncles covered with scales like those of 
achenes obtusely ribbed, sparsely pubescent pappus nearly white, 
5 mm. long, the outer series conspic 
Type locality and distribution: San Dantas 
