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Elephantosis guadrifiora Lessing, Linnaea 4: 323. 1829.” 
Elephantosis angustifolius DC. Prodr. 5: 87. 1836. 
Type locality: Jamaica. 
Distribution: from Cuba and Mexico south through the West 
Indies and Central America to Paraguay and Bolivia. 
14. ELEPHANTOPUS L. Sp. Pl. 814. 1753 
Heads 1-5-flowered, aggregated into glomerules of one to several 
heads AME ded by 1-3 foliaceous bracts; involucre of four decus- 
sate pairs of scales, the outer two shorter, the alternate pairs con- 
duplicate; receptacle flat or nearly so; corolla-tube slender, the 
limb unequally 5-cleft with a much deeper fissure on the inner side ; 
achenes truncate, ribbed; pappus of about 5 bristles dilated at the 
base. Herbs with leafy or scapiform stems, alternate or basal leaves, 
and corymbed pedunculate glomerules. 
Type, Zlephantopus scaber L. 
About 14 species of tropical and subtropical distribution, rarely 
extending into the temperate zone, and mostly confined to the 
western hemisphere. 
Bracts prolonged at the apex into a ligulate tip. 1. £. pratensis. 
Bracts acute to acuminate, not prolonged into a ti 
Pappus-bristles abruptly dilated into ee or ‘broadly triangular bases. 
Stems leafy. 
Leaves oblong-elliptic to ovate, exceeding 2 cm. in width. 
2. &. mollis. 
Leaves narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, — rem. wide. 
. &. dilatatus. 
Stems nearly scapos . £. nudatus. 
Pappu ee dilated into narrowly triangular base 
s lea 
. CAYO: olin intanus 
a se leafless, or with a few reduced ioe subtending 
ranches. 
Scales densely villous with long hairs. 6. £. elatus. 
Scales not densely villous. 
Leaves softly pubescent below, pubescent or glabrate above. 
. tomentosus, 
Leaves scabrellate above. 8. E. scaber 
. ELEPHANTOPUS PRATENSIS Wright; Sauvalle, Anal. Acad. 
. Habana 6: 177. 186 
Stem branching from the base, erect or ascending, 1-4 dm. high, 
Tucan went especially below, or becoming glabrate above; 
leaves narrowly oblanceolate, entire, obtuse, acuminate at the base, 
glabrous or pubescent; glomerules mostly solitary on long peduncles ; 
