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griseo-tomentoso demum pubescente, foliis sessilibus anguste 
oblongo-obovatis obtusis basi parum attenuatis necnon rotun- 
datis margine crenato-serratis coriaceis supra scaberrimis subtus 
griseo-tomentosis, capitulis mediocribus multiflosculosis ex apice 
ramulorum 2-3-ternatim ortis, pedunculis propriis nune abbrevia- 
tis nune capitula equantibus excedentibusve griseo-tomentosis 
superne braeteis late spathulatis tomentosis crebro onustis, 
involucri hemispherici saltem 8-serialis phyllis inter se parum in- 
æqualibus late oblongis crustaceis lamina brevi rotundato-ovata 
apiculata scariosa reticulato-nervosa purpurascente in sicco reflexa 
humeetata vero ascendenti-patente coronatis, floseulis exsertis, 
eorollarum tubo inferne tenuissimo superne late dilatato, achzeniis 
parvis subcylindricis (basin versus levissime coarctatis) 10-costatis 
fulvo-sericeis, pappi straminei setis pauciseriatis complanatis 
ciliolato- barbellatis exterioribus quam interiora manifeste 
brevioribus. 
Hab. Angola, Quamanhianga near Malange ; Gossweiler, 
1228. 
Perennis et fere §-metralis. Caulis eleganter sulcatus, cirea 
0'5 em. diam. Folia adusque 7:5x:*O cm., ssepius vero circa 
90-40 X1°5-2°0 em. Pedunculi proprii 05-30 em. long. 
Capitula 2:0-2'5 em. diam.; horum bractez 0:6-0:9 em. long. 
Involueri phylla extima 0°8 em., interiora 1:2 cem., intima 1:3 cm. 
long., hee 0*3 em. lat.  Flosculi dilute violacei deinde albi. 
Corolle tubus 1'3 em. long., inferne modo 0:05 cm., faucibus 
fere 0°25 em. diam.; lobi 0:25 cm. long. Achænia 0'3 em. 
long. Pappi sete iuteriores 0'7-0'0 em. long., exteriores circa 
0*3 em. 
A plant evidently near F. filipendula, Hiern, from which it 
may be easily told by the tomentose underside of its leaves, 
whieh are not markedly narrowed towards the base, the more 
crowded inflorescences and shorter involueral leaves with a 
differently shaped appendage. V. /asiolepis, O. Hoffm., which I 
have not seen, is also closely allied to it, but, among other 
charaeters, differs in the much longer and narrower leaves not 
strongly seabrous above, and the larger heads. 
VERNONIA GLABERRIMA, Welw., ex O. Hoffm., in Bol. Soc. 
Brot. xiii. (1896) 15. 
Cazengo, on dry stony ground near Palmyra; Gossweiler, 
645. 
