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tomentum in their axils; heads on peduncles 1-3 mm. long; in- 
volucre cylindric, 6 mm. high; scales in 3-4 series, ovate to 
oblong, acute or subacute, purplish, the outer thinly tomentose, 
the inner glabrous except for a tuft of tomentum at the tip; achenes 
2.5 mm. long, villous, ribbed ; ‘pappus nearly white, the inner series 
6 mm. long, the outer inconspicuous, 2 mm. lon: 
Type locality: ‘*in Mexici montibus ad Canepa et Cuer- 
navaca.” 
Distribution: central and southern Mexico. 
8. Eremosis barbinervis (Sch.-Bip.) nom. nov. 
Vernonia barbinervis Sch.-Bip.; Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald 
297. 1856. 
Stem strongly angled, nearly glabrous; leaves broadly elliptic, 
entire, narrowe 
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ie ee 7 mm. high, its scales ovate to oblong, acute, sca- 
rious, ciliat 
Type ies ee Sierra Madre, Mexico. 
Distribution: northwestern Mexico, Seemann. 
g. Eremosis leiocarpa (DC.) nom. nov. 
ernonta leiocarpa DC. Prodr. 5: 34. 1836. 
Frutescent; branches terete, tomentose when young, glabrate 
with age; leaves ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 8-14 cm. long, 2 
wide, acute, entire or dentate, narrowed at base, pulverulent or 
nearly glabrous above, densely cinereous-tomentose below ; petioles 
1.5 cm. long; inflorescence large, leafy-bracted; heads very nu- 
broadly triangular-ovate, obtuse, densely tomentose, ae inner be- 
coming oblong, with the arachnoid tomentum only on the obtuse 
tips; achenes 2.5—3 mm. ones glabrous, pale-brown, faintly striate ; 
pappus white, 6-7 mm. lon 
Type locality: ‘¢in Mexico” 
Distribution: the mountains of southern Mexico and Guatemala. 
10. Eremosis melanocarpa sp. nov. 
Frutescent, height unknown; branches terete, densely tomen- 
se when young, feo thinly tomentose or glabrate with age; 
leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, about 10 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, 
entire or obscurely toothed, acute or acuminate, narrowed at base, 
scabrous-pubescent or thinly tomentose above, densely cinereous- 
