ROBINSON AND GREENMAN, — GENUS VERBESINA. 565 
V. meGaporamica, Spreng. Syst. iii. 578; DC. Prodr. v. 618, of the 
Prov. Rio Grande, Brazil, but unmentioned in the Flora Brasiliensis, is 
not recognized. 
V. poputiroria, Hill, Hort. Kew. 31, poorly known and probably, 
like the other Old World species, not really of this genus. 
V. prosrrata, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 195, is a prostrate and 
creeping Chinese plant with somewhat triangular achenes. 
V. scanpEns, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 62, & Fl. Ind. iii. 441, is an E. 
Indian plant unrecognized by recent writers. 
V. scaposa, Jones, Zoe, ii. 248, with scapose chiefly 1-headed pe- 
duncles and large radical leaves arising from a tuberous root, is a very 
doubtful member of the genus, not seen by the writers. 
V. TRIPLINERVIA, Vis. Nuov. Sag. Accad. Padova, v. 264, Walp. 
Rep. ii. 621, said to be Mexican, is unrecognizable from its insufficient 
characterization. 
V. Trrrapiata, Vell. Fl. Flum. viii. t. 115, is altogether doubtful. 
TRANSFERRED SPECIES. 
V. ALTERNIFOLIA, Britton in Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club, xx. 485, is 
Actinomeris squarrosa, Nutt. 
V. ANcISTROPHORA, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 14 (1883), being 
Ancistrophora Wrightii, Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. ser. 2, vi. 457 (1859), 
is V. Wrightii, Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 155 (1866), which should not be 
displaced by V. Wrightii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 12 (1883). 
V. Briveesi, Rusby, Mem. Torr. Club, iv. 212, is V. boliviana, 
Klatt. 
V. crmosa, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 390, is V. pauciflora, 
Hemsl.’ 
V. wastata, Kellogg ex Curran, Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 140 SES? is 
V. venosa, Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, ix. 110 (1882). 
V. Hooxert, Klatt, Leopoldina, xx. 92, being V. helianthoides, 
H. & A. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii. 316, not DC., is V. Arnottii, Baker in 
Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 3, 215. 
V. uiniroxta, L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, ii. 1226, founded on t. 149, f. 3 
of Sloane’s Hist. Jam., is Pectis linifolia, L., which rests on the same 
plate. 
V. oaxacana, Klatt, l.c. xxiii. 144, not DC., is V7. olivacea, Klatt. 
V. ovata, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 13, is V. pterocaula [Moe. 
& Sess.] DC. 
