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flowers nor fruit. Bentham, in Plantae Hartwegianae, intimates 
that they are the same, and Hemsley has more recently used the 
same name for the species. The use of the older name of La Llave 
and Lexarza is based on Hartweg 132, cited by Bentham, a speci- 
men of which is in the Gray Herbarium. 
4. Eremosis tarchonanthifolia (DC.) nom. nov. 
Monosts tarchonanthifolia DC. Prodr. §: 77. 1836. 
Oliganthes Karwinskit Sch.-Bip. Linnaea 20: 505. 1847. 
Vernonia tarchonanthifolia Sch.-Bip. Linnaea 20: 507. 1847. 
A shrub 3-6 m. high, with terete branches covered when young 
with a close gray tomentum, becoming thin or disappearing entirely 
with age; leaves lanceolate or gehen » 5-8 cm. long, 
1.5-z cm. wide, short-acuminate or acute at the apex, narrowed 
short peduncles ; involucre cylindric to narrowly turbinate, 5-6 
mm. hi outer scales triangular-ovate ; inner scales longer with 
triangular ‘tips, acute or obtuse, el aaa 5 with a little tomentum 
near the tip; achenes villous, 2.5 mm. long; Sd yellowish- 
white, the inner series 7 mm. long, the: outer I 
Type locality: ‘¢in Mexico.” 
Distribution: southern Mexico, Pringle 5842, 6166; Smith 
314, 3006; Conzatti & Gonzdlez 554. 
Eremosis tarchonanthtifolia is easily distinguished from the 
other members of the genus by its narrow elliptic leaves conspicu- 
ously covered below with gray tomentum. In most of the specimens 
examined the heads are 2-flowered, a peculiarity not observed in 
any of the others, and at maturity the inner scales are somewhat 
deciduous. 
5. Eremosis Steetzii (Sch.-Bip.) nom. nov. 
Vernonia Steetziz Sch.-Bip.; Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald 297. 
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Shrubby, the branches ieee! ribbed, puberulent; leaves 
ovate, obtuse or rounded, somewhat attenuate below, short- 
acuminate at the apex, denticulate with short callous teeth, minutely 
smaller, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate; inflorescence forming 
a hemispheric leafy panicle; heads on peduncles 1-3 mm. long; 
