Longshoot

Vernonia racemosa Delponte, Mem. Accad. Torino II. 14: 396. 1854.
Vernonia araripensis Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 181, in part. 1906. Not V. araripensis
Gardn. 1846. Vernonia sericea racemosa Ekman, Ark. Bot. 13 n : 85. 1914. Stems herbaceous or suflrutescent, 5-10 dm. high, branching above, puberulent; leafblades narrowly lanceolate, 4-5 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide. long-acuminate, subentire, re/olute, one-nerved, rugose and papillose-pubescent above, sericeous-pubescent and resinous beneath; lower bracteal leaves resembling the cauline, the upper much reduced; heads sessile, secund in short spreading axillary cymes, or solitary in the upper axils; involucre 5-6 mm. high, broadly campanulate; scales purplish or brown, very loosely and irregularly imbricate, lanceolate, sharply acute, the principal ones villous below to puberulent above, sparsely resinousdotted; achenes hirsute; pappus pale purplish-brown, the bristles somewhat flattened, 3.5-4 mm. long, the scales prominent, 0.6 mm. long.
TypB locality: Hispaniola.
Distribution: Hispaniola. Illustration!: Ark. Bot. 13 15 : pi. 5,f. 4.

Vernonia angustissima C. Wright; Ekman, Ark Bot. 13 15 : 78. 1914.
Vernonia remoliflora Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 144. 1866. Not V. remoliflora Rich. 1792. Vernonia stenophylla Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 181, in part. 1906. Not V. stenophylla Less. 1831.
Stems herbaceous, erect, 4-5 dm. high, simple or sparingly branched, pubescent; leaves
numerous and crowded, the blades linear, 2-5 cm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, obtuse or mucronulate,
entire, revolute, one-nerved, papillose-pubescent and becoming scabrellate above, densely
sericeous beneath; inflorescence of numerous short spreading cymes; bracteal leaves resembling
the cauline, usually exceeding the 1S-21 -flowered heads, or the upper shorter; involucre
campanulate or somewhat turbinate, 6-7 mm. high; scales pale-green, loosely and irregularly
imbricate, villous throughout, the outer subulate, the inner narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate; achenes hirsute; pappus white or very pale yellowish-brown, the bristles 5-5.5 mm. long,
the scales 0.7-0.8 mm. long.
Type locality: Cuba.
Distribution: Cuba.

Vernonia sericea Rich. Act. Soc. Hist. Xat. Paris 1: 112. 1792.
Lepidaploa phyllostachya Cass. Diet. Sci. Nat. 26: 16. 1823.
Vernonia arborescens DC. Prodr. 5: 48, in part. 1836.
Vernonia Berteriana DC. Prodr. 5: 52. 1836.
Vernonia arborescens Lessingiana Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 353. 1861.
Cacalia arborescens Lessingiana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 323. 1891.
Cacalia sericea Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 971. 1891.
Vernonia phyllostachya Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 176. 1906.
Vernonia venusta Gleason, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 177. 1906.
Stems herbaceous or suffruticose, erect, 6-10 dm. high, freely branched above, strigosepubescent; leaf-blades thin, bright-green, divaricately spreading, narrowly oblong-lanceolate to ovate, 3-8 cm. long, 1-4 cm. wide, acute, entire, obtuse to rounded or rarely attenuate at the base, papillose-strigose above, sericeous-pubescent and resinous beneath, on petioles 2-5 mm. long; bracteal leaves oblong-elliptic, the uppermost equaling or somewhat exceeding the heads; cymes long and slender, forming a lax terminal panicle; heads 1 1-13-flowered; involucre eampanulate, 4-5 mm. high; scales loosely and irregularly imbricate, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, sharply acute, thinly villous below, glabrate in the middle, puberulent or villous at the apex, not resinous; achenes 2 mm. long, hirsute; pappus brown or rarely white. 4-5 mm. long, the scales narrow, spreading, brown to white, 0.4-0.6 mm. long.
Type locality: French Guiana (error).
Distribution: Porto Rico, American Virgin Islands, Tortola.