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little broader, the scales 40-60, in 4 or 5 series, dirty yellowish- 
white with broad green middle portion, thick and rigid, the ap- 
pressed or slightly recurved apex obtuse to rounded ; bristles of the 
pappus rather few and stout, nearly 3 mm. long, a little exceeding 
the infundibular tube of the corolla, the lobes of which are lanceo- 
late, acutish, 1.5 mm. HB A akenes ( immature ) black, less than 
1 mm. long, nearly as bro 
Between Mapiri and Tipos July-Aug. 1892 (1483). 
Species near V. Pacchensis. 
VERNONIA COSTATA Sp. n. 
(Lepidoploa Vel ipd verae.) Stout, widely branching, the 
inflorescence loo y paniculate ; branches about 8- -angled, fer- 
ruginous and slightly cinereous, those of the inflorescence fer- 
ruginous only; only the upper leaves seen, aes ee a 2 
cm. long, 5 mm. broad, the blades Pme vos ong, 7-8 
broad, lance-ovate with 'sub-rotund bas apex and ^it 
most imperceptibly sinuate-dentate isto: vay “thick and rigid, 
above finely strigose, ferruginous on the veins, underneath sil- 
very or slightly yellowish, very ated tomentose; midrib slightly 
impressed above and, like the 20-25 pairs of primaries, ex- 
tremely strong and prominent beneath, the latter connected very 
close to the margin; heads sessile, at length loose, 8 or r 9 mm. 
long; involucre open-campanulate, 6 mm. long, the scales in 40 
5 series, loosely imbricated, the inner series very much longer, ai 
ceolate, keeled, pungent, purplish-brown, lightly white-hairy ; pap- 
pus-bristles white, acute, faintly scabrous, 4 mm. long, the outer 
complanate ; corolla light purple, variously shaded with yellow, the 
slender tube 4.5 mm. long, the narrow lobes 1 mm. long; style- 
branches yellow. 
Mapiri, July-August, 1892 (1472). 
VERNONIA JUBIFERA Sp. n. 
(Critonopsis ?) ^ White-tomentose, the stem and branches 
densely shaggy, the upper leaf-surfaces scabrous ; stems apparently 
tall and widely branching, terete or nearly so, 'the inflorescence 
BUE eiue. ipa amplexicaul, with blunt or rounded auricles 
broad, oval to slightly ovate, or obovate, the 
lower fourth Sontacted somewhat abruptly, the apex abruptly 
a ins 
elevated beneath, packed an d ree: except the midrib, which i is 
very stout, reticulate, the primaries 15-18 pairs, lightly ascend- 
ing and inter-arched near the margin; heads sessile and Notaries 
on the short branchlets, mostly in threes, nearly I cm. long; um 
volucre turbinate-campanulate, about 4 mm. long and broad, t 
scales in 4 or 5 series, loosely imbricated, tawny and Varie 
