Eremosis barbinervis

Eremosis barbinervis (Sehultz-Bip.) Gleason, Bull N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 232. 1906.
Vernonia barbinervis Schultz-Bip.; Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 297. 1856. Cacalia barbinervis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 969. 1891.
Stems nearly glabrous; leaf-blades thick, firm, broadly elliptic, 9-12 cm. long, 4-5 cm.
wide, obtuse or subacute, entire, narrowed at the base, nearly glabrous above, beneath densely
tomentose along the midvein, thinly and interruptedly pubescent or tomentose on the lateral
veins, resinous and essentially glabrous on the surface; inflorescence hemispheric; heads
3-flowered; involucre narrowly campanulate, 7 mm. high; scales thin, straw-colored, scarious
at the margin, the outer ovate, sharply acute, somewhat arachnoid, the middle conspicuously ciliate, the inner acute, glabrous; aehenes thinly pubescent; pappus white, the bristles 5 mm. long.
Tvi'ic locality: Sierra Marire. northwestern Mexico. Distribution: Western Mexico.