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bracts 2-3, cordate-orbicular with a prominent ligulate tip 5-10 mm. 
long. 
Type locality and distribution : Cuba. 
2. ELEPHANTOPUS MOLLIS H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 4: 26. 1818 
Type locality: ‘* crescit in provinciis Cumanae et Caracas.” 
Distribution: from Cuba and Lower California south into South 
America. 
3. Elephantopus dilatatus sp. nov. 
Stem erect, 3 dm. high, hirsute with brown hairs, densely so 
below, bearing several leaves separated by short inte: rnodes near the 
base and others scattered above; leaves thick, narrowly oblong- 
oblanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, 9-12 mm. wide, acute or subacute, 
remotely serrulate with low erect Sa long-attenuate below, 
sparsely pilose with stiff appressed hairs on both sides, but especi- 
broadly ovate, acuminate, prominently reticulated, pilose, equaling 
or shorter than the heads; involucre 7 mm. high; scales abruptl 
acuminate into a cuspidate tip, nearly glabrous below, glandular and 
a 
bristles very oo dilated ie into depressed broadly tri- 
angular bases 
Type: Lttzer 3733, bords du Rio Ceibo, Buenos Aires, Costa 
Rica; in the Gray Herbarium. In the shape, size and pubescence 
of the leaves it resembles very closely the Brazilian /. rzparius 
Gardn. but differs in the larger broader bracts and the short broadly 
dilated bases of the pappus-bristles. 
4. ELEPHANTOPUS NUDATUS A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 
15: 47. 1879 
Type locality : Oxford, Delaware. 
Distribution: from Delaware and Maryland south to Florida 
and west to Louisiana and Arkansas, mostly near the coast. 
5. ELEPHANTOPUS CAROLINIANUS Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 2390. 1804 
Elephantopus violaceus Sch.-Bip. Linnaea 20: 517. 1847. 
Type locality : ‘+ habitat in Carolina, Florida, Jamaica.” 
Distribution: from New Jersey west to Illinois and Kansas, 
south to Florida and Texas, and apparently in Mexico andthe West 
Indies. 
