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involucre about 6 mm. high, pale- -brown, lightly suffused with 
purple; scales all acute or short- -acuminate, glabrous or nearly so; 
ania densely villous with ascending hairs, 2-5 mm. long ; Pappus 
white, the inner series 6-7 mm. long, the outer much short 
Type locality: Sierra Madre, Mexico. 
Distribution: northwestern Mexico, Seemann; Palmer 273. 
Eremosis Steetzii callilepis (Sch.-Bip.) nom. nov. 
Vernonia Steetztt calizlepis Sch.-Bip. 7. c. 
Described by Schultz as follows: ‘+ foliis duplo minoribus, paulo 
longis petiolatis, involucri squamis non tam caducis, purpurascen- 
tibus. An spec. distincta?” Type locality the same as for the 
species. 
6. Eremosis leiophylla sp. nov. 
A shrub 3.4-5 m. high, with glabrous branches and foliage; 
branches brown, faintly ribbed; leaves numerous, oblong or ellip- 
tic-oblong, acute at both ends, entire, or with a few minute cal- 
lous teeth, 3-4 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide; petioles 3-4 mm. long 
short-peduncled, 1-flowered; involucre pale-brown, 5-6 mm. high; 
scales glabrous or minutely ciliate, acute, the outer ovate, the 
inner oblong, acute; corolla purplish; achenes short-villous, 2.5~3 
mm. long; pappus white, ag mm. long, the bristles of the outer 
series uneven, much shorter 
Type: Pringle 6188, coreced November 5, 1895, on the moun- 
tains above Cuernavaca, state of Morelos; in the herbarium of Col- 
umbia University. 
The species is distinguished from all other members of the group 
by its almost entire lack of pubescence. The size and shape of the 
leaves is also characteristic. 
4. Eremosis salicifolia (DC.) nom. nov. 
Monosis salicifolta DC. Prodr. 5: 77. 1836. 
Vernonia unifiora Sch.-Bip. Linnaea 20: 506. 1847. 
V. mci Sch.-Bip. Z. ¢. 507. 
hrubby; branches terete, covered with a thin gray arachnoid 
tomentum; leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceo- 
ao typically -~8 cm. long by 1-2 cm. wide, acute or subacute at 
apex, entire or slightly undulate, punctate with resinous glands, 
Lee or thinly tomentose on both sides, tapering below into 
petioles 4~6 mm. long; lateral veins ascending, with tufts of brown 
