188 FLORA OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 



GOODENIACE^ 



SciEVOLA Plumieri (L.) Vahl. Common on the sandy beaches 

 on both islands. South Beach, N.P., Jan. (85). 



Composite 



Vernonia Bahamensis Griseb. Common in the pines on both 

 islands. Nassau, Jan. (loi). Same as Eggers 4187 and Brace 118. 



Ageratum conyzoides L. Nassau, Jan. (22). 



Eupatorium ageratifolium DC. Nassau, Jan. (176). Same 

 as Wright 2803. 



Eupatorium Bahamense sp. nov. 



Shrubby, branching, branches cylindrical, striate, tips pubes- 

 cent, somewhat rusty; leaves opposite, petioles 3-10 mm. in length, 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-4.5 ^^- ^°^S> •75~2 cm. wide, base 

 cuneate, apex obtuse, margin entire or slightly repand, triply nerved 

 (in some young leaves obscurely so), the lateral nerves usually start- 

 ing 2-5 mm. above the base, glabrous above, glabrate and densely 

 dotted with glands beneath, glands mostly black ; corymbs numerous, 

 trichotomous, peduncles with a few scattered glands; heads shortly 

 pedicellate, often in pairs, pedicels 2-6. mm. in length, ten- to thirteen- 

 flowered ; flowers blue, receptacle cylindrical, flat on top ; involucre 

 cylindrical, 8-10 mm. long, about 2 mm. broad, scales imbricate in 

 about four rows, innermost linear-lanceolate, about 6 mm. in length, 

 outer lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, apex rotmded, sometimes 

 somewhat spatulate, the outer somewhat thickened at the top and 

 darker, mostly three-striate, inner scales sometimes slightly toothed 

 near the base; corolla light blue, clavate, 3-4 mm. long, teeth less, 

 than I mm. ; pappus white, spreading, about as long as the corolla ; 

 achenia black, tapering at the base, three-, four- or five-angled, mostly 

 three, with the other angles obsolete, angles scabrous (359). 



Collected in the coppet at Nicol's Town, March 17. Not un- 

 common. Same as Eggers 4424 and Brace 225. 



Related to E. conyzoides Vahl, but differs in having the leaves and 

 branches less divaricate, leaves obti^se, involucral scales tapering at 

 the apex, heads fewer flowered, and achenia often 3-4-angled. 



Plate 19. Eupatorium Bahamense. Portion of plant, X f ; u;, head of flowers. 



Eupatorium capillifolium (Lam.) Small. (E. foeniculaceum 

 Willd.) Hog Island, N.P., Feb. (252). 



