OF FERNANDO PO. 11 
A very handsome plant, of which Mr. Mann has collected excellent 
specimens. 
RvuBIACER. 
l. Galium Aparine, L. Var. hamatum. 
G. hamatum, Hochst.; A. Rich. Flor. Abyss. i. 345. 
Hab. Yn Clarence Peak, alt. 6-8000 ped. (fl. Dec.) Flores flavi. . 
I find it impossible to distinguish this from G. Aparine, L. A. Richard 
remarks of the Abyssinian specimens of hamatum, that the hooks of the 
leaves are stronger and more marked than in any other of the genus; but 
I do not find them to be so in his or this plant, though more strong than 
in many European specimens of G. Aparine. Mr. Mann describes the 
flowers as yellow, A. Richard as apparently purple. It is also a native of 
South Africa and many other parts of the world. 
2. Galium rotundifolium, L. Var. foliis acutioribus. 
Hab. In cacumine Clarence Peak, alt. 10,000 ped. (fl. Dec.) 
All the leaves of the Fernando Po specimens are acute, or rather mucro- 
nate ; some of those of the Abyssinian specimens are so too, whereas in the 
European and Indian forms they are more or less obtuse : still all the other 
characters appearing identical with those of the European, I cannot sepa- 
rate this on the grounds of one which is variable. Mann describes the 
flowers as yellow ; in the dried specimens they appear white. 
3. ANTHOSPERMUM ASPERULOIDES, H.f. Parvulum, caule flexuoso 
teretiusculo hirtello, foliis parvis fasciculatis lanceolatis subsessilibus, 
stipulis utrinque rigide subulatis marginibus recurvis parce hispidulis, 
floribus parvis tetrameris, coccis oblongis levibus glaberrimis. 
Hab. In cacumine Clarence Peak, alt. 10,000 ped. (fl. Dec.) 
Herba parvula, 8" alt., parce ramosa, foliosa. Caules teretiusculi. Folia 
densa, patula, 1" long. 
Allied both to Cape and Abyssinian species, but distinct from any known 
to me by the small size, flexuose habit, and erect subulate limb to the 
sheathing stipules. 
COMPOSITAE. 
l. Vernonia CLARENCEANA, H.f. Erecta, herbacea, gracilis, sub- 
hispido-pilosa ; caule parce diviso subflexuoso, foliis linearibus lineari- 
lanceolatisve sessilibus semi-amplexicaulibus remote serrato-dentatis 
acuminatis, capitulis multifloris ad apicem caulis congestis breve 
pedunculatis, pedunculis tomentosis, involucri late campanulati squa- 
mis rigidiusculis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis purpureis, dorso pilosis 
subherbaceis. l 
Hab. In Clarence Peak, alt. 8500 ped. (fl. Dec.) 
Herba rigidiuscula, 1-2-pedalis. Caulis purpureus, laxe foliatus, su- 
perne subvillosus. Folia 2-3" long., suberecta, paulo recurva, j"-" 
lat., inferiora in petiolum subangustata, superiora basi latiora, rigide 
membranacea, utrinque subhispido-pilosula, nervis paucis prominulis, 
Capitula 10-15 ad apices ramulorum, 3" long. et lat. non bracteata. 
