solitary, torminal, upon very Short pedicels, rigid, 
suberect; the 4 yellowish green perianth segments deep-+ 
ly Spoon-shaped; ovary green, bearing a very thick and 
viseid exeamy yellow or white (when young) stigma meas- 
uring nearly 1/2 inch aevoss; Brooks Point, March, 1911, 
12713, Vernonia olmeri Merr. ‘Sprawling over dense 
thickets mixed with eozon graces in dry Bterile #011 of 
low hills at 600 feet; leaves flat, paler green beneath, 
thinly coriaceous, spresding or deseending, easily wilting; 
inflorescence @uberest from the ends of the Slendcr terete 
areoh twige; flowers erect, odorless, dark violaceous; 
pappue® dingy white; Brooke Point, Mereh, 1911. 
12714. Leucopyke Gapitellata Yedd, Quite Slender 
shrube on ledges or stony Soil of shrubberies or light 
woods slong the Lare river at 660 fect; Stem usually 
solitary, 1 to 2 inches thiek, 9 feet high, laxlLy branched 
from below the middle; woed moderately soft, sappy white, 
no odor, no taste, with a rather large pith; bark brown, 
easily @tripping, tough, green benesth the epidermis; 
leaves mostly descending, pale green above, whitish be- 
neath, neeriy fiat; inflereseence creamy white, divaricate- 
ly @preading, the heeds 1/3 ineh across; Brooks Point, 
Merch, 1911 
ng 
"12715. Hypeestes adidiseniense Films, Ne BP. Forming 
dense olusters in loese, dry Scil of ledges along water- 
felis or in deeply shaded prepicet along the Lara river 
at S00 feat; Stems numerous, knee high, the ola ones per- 
sistent, terete, iark sreen, numerously branched from below 
the middle; leaves thinly coriaceous, flat, chiefly he- 
rizontal, auch deeper green on the upper Suriace; i owers 
in omall axillery fascicles, green except the white corolla 
whose lower lip is purplish spotted; Brooke Point, Maren, 
191i, 
1z716. Hedyotis Kingiane Elm. fe Bp. Seranbi ing 
over shrubberies mixed with cogon grace in dey Sterile soi1 
on hillocks at &¢cc feet, stem somewhat inclined to tine, 
terete, tough, 1/8 ineh thick, yellowish brown or green 
en the younger portion, branched all along; branches 
relatively short, ereét; leleve® submembrancua, ascend- 
ing, Slightly folded on the @erker green upper side to- 
ward the base; inflorescence Stalks, bracts, aid calyx 
pele gareen except the calyx segments which are darker green; 
flowers otherwise creamy white andoderless; Brooks. Point, 
Mareh, L191. 

