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spread out, rigid, revolute, above nearly glabrous, below setose, 
densely massed about the flowers ` calyx-tube globoid, 1 mm. long, 
a little broader, teeth 4, triangular-subulate, acute, as long as the 
tube, 14 as broad, densely setose, the intermediate ones obsolete ; 
corolla glabrous, the tube very short, the lobes ovate, obtuse, 
scarcely 1 mm. long ; anthers broadly ovate ; mature fruit not seen, 
apparently hispid, separable from the base into 2 nutlets without 
leaving an axis. 
937. Published as “ Borreria" is STAELIA FILIFOLIA sp. n. 
Root vertical, stout, woody, stems several to numerous, 5-10 
cn. long, slender, ascending, sparingly branched, at first densely, 
at length sparsely leafy, scabrous; sheaths of the stipules 
brown, 2 mm. broad, .5 mm. long, a transverse ridge at the 
middle portion, the few setae white, very slender, 1-2 mm. 
long; leaves filiform, acute, 3-8 mm. long, grayish-hispid ; 
form, the others obsolete or nearly so; corolla-tube cylindra- 
ceous, slightly dilated upward, equalling the calyx-teeth, the lobes 
% as long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse; anthers oblong, nearly I 
mm. long, % as broad. Mature fruit not seen. Very near S. 
thymoides C. & S. 
247. Published as “ Vernonia paucifolia sp. n.” is V. HERBACEA 
(Vell.) (Chrysocoma herbacea Vell. Fl. Flum. 330; 8: 4 29 
1825) — V. obovata Less. Linnaea (1829) 279). 
86. Published as « Stevia compacta Benth.?" is SrEviA BANGII sp. n. 
? mm. long, lance-ovate. Mature akene not seen. 
— Rusby's 1613, but not Mandon's 244. 
611. Published as “ Stevia stenocephala Sch. Bip?” is STEVIA NE- 
GLECTA sp. n. 
Stems tall, coarse and weak, widely branching, terete, bright 
red, above minutely and sparsely pubescent, foliage scanty, tran- 
