Eremosis heydeana (Coult.) Gleason

Eremosis heydeana (Coult.) Gleason, Bull. X. Y Bot. Gard. 4: 234. 1906.
Vernonia Heydeana Coult. Bot. Gaz. 20: 42. 1895.
Stems shrubby or arborescent, the branches puberulent or glabrate; leaf-blades elliptic to ovate, 8-10 cm. long, 4.5-6 cm. wide, acute or abruptly short-acuminate, entire or remotely denticulate, acute at base, thinly subpapillose-puberulent or glabrous above, thinly tomcntulose and resinous beneath; petioles 1-2 cm. long; inflorescence hemispheric to pyramidal; heads 3-flowered, crowded, on short tomentose peduncles; involucre narrowly campanulate, 6 mm. high; outer scales short, blunt, ovate, conspicuously tomentose-ciliate; inner scales prolonged, brown with green center, obtuse or subacute, glabrous on the back, with thin, scarious, glabrous or finely ciliate margin; achenes brown, 3 mm. long, glabrous or minutely glandular; pappus white, deciduous, 6 mm. long, the outer series filiform, 1-2 mm. long.
Type locality: San Miguel Uspantan, Quiche, Guatemala, alt. 1800-3600 meters. Distribution: Southern Mexico and Guatemala.