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Vernonia patuliflora sp. nov. 
(Paniculatae) ; stems, inflorescence and venation densely short- 
hairy, the hairs of the stem mostly a little reflexed; — stout, 
purple or light gray-brown, the internodes mostly 4-8 cm. long; 
petioles 1-1.5 cm. long, very stout, strongly dilated at the base; 
lades 1-2 dm. long, 4-8cm. broad, ovate, rounded at the base, 
shortly and acutely pointed at the apex, minutely and eels ser- 
rate, above deep-green, rugose with impressed venation, minutely 
branches horizontal and partly drooping; heads about 1 cm apart, 7 
mm. long, the purple involucre 5 mm. long, broadly campanulate, 
the outer scales narrowly lance-linear, attenuate and pungent, the 
innermost about a half longer, oblong, acutish; akenes 1.5 mm. 
long, stout; inner pappus penes 4 mm. long, fine, copious, the outer 
about the length of the akene 
‘¢ A slender shrub, 6~10 ft. high, with blue flowers, growing in 
sand and gravel near the river. Rather scarce.” Coroico, August 
23, 1894. (Vo. 23796.) 
Vernonia paucisquamata sp. nov. 
(Paniculatae); younger portions minutely puberulent; stem 
m. lo 
abruptly acuminate and acute at the apex, entire, deep-green, the 
venation not prom inent, reticulate, the secondaries 4 or 5 pairs ; 
panicles axillary, strongly peduncled, the flowering portion 5-6 cm 
long, 3 cm. broad, lax, leafy-bracted; heads sessile; beads 
campanulate, § mm. long, the scales few, in about 4 series, ap- 
pressed, oval to oblong-linear, obtuse, the middle green, ie outer 
successively shorter; corollas not seen; akenes 2 mm, long, lightly 
but sharply angled, ‘the pappus 4 mm. long, rigid, copious, 
connate by a narrow, dark basal ring. 
‘«Climbing 8 to 15 ft. high, in wet forest-mould.” Coroico, 
September 4, 1894. (JVo. 2¢09.) The same as Rusby 7729. 
Vernonia deflexa sp. nov. 
Coarsely hirsute, including the involucres and the principal veins ; 
root stout, long and coarsely branched; stems erect or ascending, 
rather slender, 5 dm. or more high, branched at the summit; lower 
leaves very short-petioled, the upper sessile, the sera base be- 
coming deflexed, the blade horizontal, 0.5—1.2 dm. 
cm. broad, oblong, acute at both ends, obsoletely poets pice: rather 
thin, pale-g -green, ie venation prominent, very strongly so under: 
neath, the 10-12 irregular pairs of crooked secondaries strongly 
