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but differs in the dense persistent spreading and subglandular 
pubescence of the veins of the under leaf-surface and in other 
features. 
Vernonia (Eremosis) oolepis, sp. nov. Frutex ramosus, caule 
fusco-brunneo-purpureo striato dense appresse sordideque piloso- 
tomentoso demum subglabrato. Folia ovali-lanceolata vel sub- 
obovato-lanceolata utroque acuminata integra supra viridia 
glabra subtus dense sordideque piloso-tomentosa venis subobscuris 
ca. 5-jugis omnino non reticulatis 6.5-7.3 cm. longa 2.6-3.2 cm. 
lata, in petiolis subtus tomentoso-pilosis 2-4 mm. longis. Pani- 
culae polycephalae 6-8 cm. diametro, capitulis in pedunculis ultimis 
ca. 3-6-cephalis cymoso-paniculatis sessilibus vel brevissime pedi- 
cellatis 4-floris 10 mm. altis. Involucri cylindrico-campanulati 
6-7-seriati 5.2-5.5 mm. alti phyllaria coriacea pallida sub apice ma- 
culata et glandulosa subsordide piloso-ciliata ceterum subglabra 
apice rotundata extima deltoideo-ovata interiora gradatim lon- 
giora ovata intima anguste lanceolata decidua. Corollae glabrae 
5.5-6 mm. longae. Achenia 6-sub-7-costata sparse pilosula 
brunneo-nigrescentia 3 mm. longa. Pappi aristae minute barbel- 
latae albidae interiores 5.5 mm. longae exteriores 0.6-1 mm. 
longae. — Yucatan: Izamal, 1886, Gawmer (TyPE in hb. Gray, 
being a fragm. ex hb. Field Museum). 
From V. Gleasoni Blake (Eremosis ovata Gleason), the only 
other Mexican species with 4-flowered heads, the present plant 
may be quickly distinguished by its considerably smaller ses- 
sile or subsessile heads with obtuse phyllaries, and smaller dif- 
ferently shaped leaves with different pubescence and not venose 
beneath. 
ELEPHANTOPUS hypomalacus, sp. nov. Perennis erectus 6 dm. 
altus et ultra. Caulis tenuis vel validus plus minusve tortuosus 
dense vel subdense subaspereque hispido-pilosus (pilis late paten- 
tibus vel adscendentibus rare subappressis basi paullum tubercu- 
latis) foliosus, foliis caulinis 4-5. Folia late obovata vel oblongo- 
obovata acuta rare obtusa basi attentuata vel acuminata serrata 
(dentibus depresso-deltoideis mucronatis) subtus reticulato-venosa 
ayes viridia incurvo-pilosa pilis longis et brevibus basi tuberculatis 
is oo ad venas (praecipue ad costam) 
dagen an r venulas dense molliter subcanescenter 
patenti-pilosa et -pilosula et dense glanduloso-adspersa in basin am- 
