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In general habit the species closely resembles V. serratulotdes, 
but is distinguished by its narrow, glabrous, revolute, obscurely 
reticulated leaves. 
60. VERNONIA SERRATULOIDES H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 33. 1818 
Perezia paniculata A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 393. 1886. 
Stems glabrous or Saas branching above; leaves narrowly 
oblong, 7-10 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, irregularly serrate, truncate 
to rounded or rarely as owed at tthe base, scabrous above, pubescent 
or puberulent and strongly reticulate beneath; scales abruptly acu- 
minate and cuspidate, purple usually only near the tip. 
Type locality: ‘* Valladolid de Mechoacan,” Mexico. 
Distribution: southwestern Chihuahua, Palmer 279, to Jalisco. 
61. VERNONIA OAXACANA Sch.-Bip. in Klatt, Leopoldina 20: 
74. 1884 
hrubby, the stems prominently striate, thinly pubescent; leaves 
elliptic-oblong, 10 cm. long cm. wide, acute, entire or re- 
— denticulate narrowed at the base, scabrellate above, floccose 
neath ; petioles 5-12 mm. long; upper leaves smaller; inflores- 
cence hemispheric} heads crowded, all peduncled; involucre cam- 
panulate, 5 mm. high; scales ovate-lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 
glabrous, acute, cuspidate 
Type locality: ‘*S. Carlos,” Mexico. 
Distribution: Oaxaca and Chiapas, Seler 1956. 
62. Vernonia capreaefolia (Sch.-Bip.) sp. nov. 
Vernonta Ehrenbergiana capreaefolia Sch.-Bip. ined. 
erect, at least 1 m. high, reas area terete, striate, sca- 
brous-puberulent or glabrate, simple to the inflorescence; leaves 
firm, broadly elliptic, 9-13 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. broad, regularly 
taper ing to an acute tip, coarsely serrate, narrowed or somewhat 
cuneate at base, very scabrous and dark-green ae. paler and 
nearly glabrous beneath except for scabrous pubescence along the 
prominently reticulated veins; petioles 2-10 mm. long; upper and 
axile leaves similar but smaller; bracteal leaves 1 cm. long or less; 
inflorescence broadly pyramidal, 1-2 dm. wide, its branches puberu- 
lent; heads ut r1-flowered, on short peduncles; involucre cam- 
panulate, 5 mm. high; scales loosely but regularly imbricated, gla- 
rous or nearly so on the back, minutely ciliate, the outer lanceo- 
late, acuminate and cuspidate, the inner ovate-oblong to narrowly 
oblong, acute, or subacute and mucronulate; achenes 2.5 mm. long, 
sharply ribbed, sparsely pubescent on the angles and glandular in the 
furrows; pappus nearly white, 5 mm. 
