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44. Vernonia montana sp. nov. 
Climbing shrub, 6 m. high; branches glabrous, young twigs 
puberulent; leaves crowded, firm, oblong-elliptic or rhomboid, 8- 
13 mm. long, oe mm. wide; acu to rounded at the apex, entire, 
somewhat revolute, cuneate at base, dark-green and glabrous on 
petioles 1-2 mm. long; inflorescence subcapitate; heads 2-5, ses- 
sile or nearly so, "8-flowered : involucre 5 mm. high, campanulate, 
rounded at the base; scales regularly imbricated in few series, ap- 
pressed, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, the outer broadly ovate, the 
inner ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate; achenes obscurely ribbed, 
nearly glabrous, 3 mm. long; pappus yellowish, 4 mm. long, the 
outer series minu 
Type: Nash a Taylos 1756, from La Brande to Mt. Balance, 
Haiti; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 
45. Vernonia yunquensis sp. nov. 
Erect, sparingly branched, 1.2 m. tall; stem obscurely angled, 
very thinly but closely canescent; leaves oe firm, dull-green 
above, pale beneath, broadly ellipti ic, 4-5 cm. long, 1.8-2.7 cm. 
wide, obtuse or mucronate, entire, obtuse or ace at base, glabrous 
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nently reticulated veins beneath; heads about 5, sessile or nearly so 
in a terminal capitate cluster, about 34-flowered; involucre cam- 
panulate, 7 mm. high; scales closely imbricated in several series, 
red or purple, gray-tomentose on the back, acute or subacute and 
mucronate, the outer broadly ovate, the inner ovate-lanceolate to 
lanceolate; achenes (immature) hirsute with appressed hairs; 
pappus 5 mm. long, nearly white, the short outer series con- 
Type: Underwood & Earle 661, from El] Yunque Mt., Baracoa, 
Cuba; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 
46. Vernonia THomae Benth. Vidensk. Meddel. 1852: 66. 
1852 
No specimens of this species have been seen. From Bentham’s 
description it cannot be distinguished from V. alézcaulis in leaf- 
character; a drawing in the Gray Herbarium from the collection of 
Dr. Klatt also refers to that species; and its distribution is sugges- 
tive of the same, while quite different from the remaining species of 
the subsection. 
Type locality and distribution: St. Thomas. 
