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spreading, acute, internally villous; stamens 2, free, inserted upon the 
throat of the calyx-tube; anthers oblong, 2-celled, straight or slightly 
curved, 1 mm. long; filament short, thick ; rudiment of gynoecium none: 
pistillate flower 5 mm. long, sessile or shortly pedicellate, pedicel pubes- 
cent; calyx 5-parted, green, lobes ovate, glabrous; corolla rotate, 5-lobed, 
lobes acute, internally pubescent ; staminodia 2, minute; ovary with two 
placentas and about 6 ovules horizontally arranged; style short, filiform, 
bifid at apex, stigmas 2, bifid, villose ; fruit 1- to 4-seeded, glabrous, ovoid, 
about 7 mm. long.— Along the roadside from El Valle to San Antonio, 
climbing over such shrubs as Lyedum salsum, R. & P., and Cereus eburneus, 
Salm., Johnston, no, 286, Aug. 8; 1903. 
Vernonia Milleri, n. sp. Shrub 12 to 18 dm. high: leaves petio- 
late, alternate, 1.5 to 3 cm. long and 0.5 to 2 cm. wide, with acuminate 
apex and attenuate base, slightly mealy-pubescent above, the lower sur- 
face densely whitish-pubescent, minutely black-dotted, and reticulate 
veiny ; petiole 0.5 cm. long; pedicels 0.2 cm. long: inflorescence irreg- 
ular, densely cymose, the close aggregation of heads 4 cm. in diameter ; 
heads 3- to 4-flowered, 0.6 cm. long, 0.3 em. broad; bracts 3- to 4-serial, 
outer setaceous, the inner ones becoming broadly lanceolate, 0.3 cm. 
long, three times the length of the outer: corolla 5-lobed, lobes narrow, 
acute, five- to seven-twelfths the length of corolla: pappus 2.5 mm, long, 
2-serial, outer series very short, fimbriate ; inner series long, barbellate, 11 
to 12 setae, white: anthers with a narrow triangular appendage at apex, 
at base deeply sagittate: style 2-cleft, pubescent above; achene truncate, 
slightly pubescent. — Summit of South hill, alt. 300 m., Miller § Jol 
ston, no. 254, July 31, 1901, and Johnston, no. 329, Aug. 81,1908. 
