86 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Planta me em. alt. Folia 10-12 cm. lat., petioli dum adsint 
nec ultra 0° . long. Pedunculi capitulorum vetustiorum 0°5- 
vix 3:0 cm., jdbc tik fere adusque 6:0 cm. long. Capitula usque 
ad 18 cm. | " 
Gitcernadin 0-7-0°8 cm., intima circa 1:0 em. long. Corolle in toto 
1‘7 om. lo pag? tubus deorsum attenuatus superne gradatim et 
leviter amplificatus ; lobi lineari-lanceolati, 0°4 cm. lon Stylus 
exsertus, sub ramis parum incrassatus et pubescens. "Achen ia 
cm., pappi sete exteriores 0°1 cm., interiores 0°8 cm. long. 
A Vernonia of familiar appearance, which, however, 1 have been 
unable to name either from specimens in this country or from 
the pot deseriptions published of recent years. It is nearest 
V. grandiflora Less., two-headed forms of which it much resembles, 
but the leaves are trout d at base instead of acute, the heads are 
smaller and have fewer florets, and the involucral leaves are quite 
different. 
“ desertorum Mart. 
V. simplex Less. var. B italia Bak. 656. 
V. obovata Less. 589, 601 
. 847. 
E. Christieanum Bak. Porto Murtinho. 877. ‘Terere, Para- 
guay. 855. 
E. Christieanum Bak. var. pubescens, var. nov. ramis foliisque 
dense pubescentibus, capitulis 11-12- flosculosis. Porto Murtinho. 
E. horminoides a 458. 
E. Vitalba DC. 
E. amygdalinum rp 348, 
E. trigonum Gardn. 657. 
Eupatorium (§ Campunocrinium) Sladen Sp. 
Herba erecta caule fistuloso tereti striato ora see folie oorpoaitl 
lineari-oblanceolatis obtusis basi in petiolum brevem longiuscule at- 
tenuatis crenato-serrulatis trinervibus scabriusculis, capitulis cam- 
panulatis majusculis multiflosculosis ad apicem pedunculi elongati 
pubescentis cymosis, iio paucicapitulatis, pedunculis propriis capi- 
tula excedentibus vel subeequantibus, involucri phyllis circa 18 exteri- 
oribus ovatis vel ovato-lanceolatis obtusis pubescentibus puberulisve 
ilute purpureis interioribus lanceolatis vel linearibus decoloribus, 
ersus sensim attenuatis 5-angulatis glabris, pappl setis achenia 
paullulum excedentibus seabriusculis abcess albis 
Hab. Porto Murtinho; Octob 
s ultra seacien seria: Folia metus membranacea, in sicco 
viridia, sit 6°5-8°5 cm. long., 1-2-1°5 cm. lat., coste utriusque 
faciei plerumque paullulum eminentes ; petiolus + Ps oe long., 
ima basi dilatatus. Peduneculus circa 80-0 cm. alt., $s, pur- 
pureus, hujus bractex 2-0-3-0 em. long. (summe ait reared 
