(377) 
cending, connecting at some distance from the margin; heads 
peduncled ; involucre broadly campanulate, 6-8 mm. long, the 
cessively longer; akene 1.5 mm. long, oblanceolate; outer pappus 
dense, 1 mm. long, the inner rather scanty and coarse, 6 mm. long; 
corolla-tube narrowly cylindrical or sub-filiform, 4 mm. long, the 
limb abrupt, the lobes 3 mm. long, bright-purple, oblanceolate, 
thin. (Vo. 20378 
VERNONIA sp. The inflorescence is too far advanced to permit of 
a diagnosis. (lVo. 2043.) 
AGERATUM CONYzOIDES L. Sp. Pl. 1175. (Vo. 2027.) 
STEVIA URTICIFOLIA Thunb. Pl. Bras. Dec. 1: 13. (Vo. 2877.) 
Stevia Bridgesii sp. nov. 
oughly strigose-pubescent throughout; stems terete, green or 
light-purplish above, erect or ascending, much-branched and very 
ae 3-nerved, the midrib prominent below; se of 3-5 
heads, shortly racemed at the ends of the branchlets, leafy-bracted ; 
peduncles of the heads scarcely any; heads about 1.2 cm. long; 
involucres infundibular, 8 mm. long, 3.5 mm. broad at the summit, 
purple, the scales oblong Pa about 2 mm. bro enes very 
slender, 5 mm. long; p s 5 mm. long; corolla tube bright- 
purple, mm. long, ne Tones lighter, 2 mm. long, oval-ovate. 
(Wo. 20 
7: 
The same collected by Bridges. Near S. compacta Benth., and 
near AJandon 244. 
Stevia sp. (Vo. 20g7 is apparently a Stevza with deformed 
inflorescence. ) 
EvupraToORIUM AMYGDALINUM Lam. Encyc. 2: 408. ‘Grows in 
wet clay, in grassy places; scarce; flowers light-red.” Coripata, 
June 24, 1894. (Mo. 2292 
EupATORIUM DENDROIDES Spreng. Syst. 3: 415. (= Avikania 
arborea H.B.K., but this is preceded by an &. arboreum.) “A 
shrub, 8-15 ft. high, in dry gravelly and clayey soil, the flowers 
white; abundant.” Coripata, April 10, 1894. (lo. 2773.) 
EupaTorium GLOMERATUM DC. Prodr. 5: 154. ‘A shrub 5~8 
ft. high, in dry places along roadsides, the flowers white and 
fragrant; abundant.” Coripata, March 30, 1894. (Vo. 2772.) 
Bopoun MACROPHYLLUM L, Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1175. ‘* Growing 
