172 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
much-branched puberulent stems a foot long. Stipules minute, 
deltoid. Leaves 5-6 in a whorl, often with suppressed branches 
in their axils, sessile, oblanceolate, acute, l-nerved, 4 in. long, 
without prickles on the margin. Flowers several, sessile in the 
axils of the upper whorls. Female flower with a globose glabrous 
2-lobed ovary. Male flower with a corolla j' iu. long, with 
four lanceolate segments equalling in length the funnel-shaped 
tube and 4 stamens as long as the segments with filiform fila- 
ments and cream-coloured versatile linear-oblong anthers. — 
Central Madagascar, Baron 2005! 
VERNONIA SPARSIFLORA, N. sp. 
Fruticosa, ramulis dense brunneo-pubescentibus, foliis petiolatis late 
oblongis cuspidatis obscure denticulatis subcoriaceis pubescentibus, capt- 
tulis 1-2-floris in corymbos terminales densissime aggregatis pedicellis 
nullis, involucri oblongi bracteis circiter 15 brunneis rigidis acutis caducis 
parce pilosis, pappi albi setis rigidulis conformibus. 
A shrub, with terete woody branchlets, densely coated with 
short brown pubescence. Leaves distinctly petioled, 4-5 in. long, 
22-3 in. broad at the middle, distinctly euspidate, rounded or 
deltoid at the base, very minutely and remotely denticulate, 
scabrous with minute hairs on the upper surface, clothed all over 
with short brown pubescence beneath. Capitula very numerous, 
aggregated in peduncled terminal corymbose panicles with capi- 
tate branches. Involuere oblong, 3 in. long, composed of about 
15 rigid acute bracts, the inner ones lanceolate, the outer minute 
and ovate, hairy mainly on the margin. Achene glabrous, only 
seen immature. Pappus lin. long, composed of numerous uni- 
form white bristles.—Central Madagascar, Baron! 
VERNONIA DELAPSA, D. Sp. 
Fruticosa, ramulis pubescentibus, foliis petiolatis oblongis acutis den- 
ticulatis subcoriaceis glabris, capitulis trifloris laxe corymbosis breviter 
pedicellatis, involueri campanulati bracteis triseriatis adpressis caducis 
glabris brunneis rigidulis subobtusis, pappi setis albis hispidis ciliatis ex- 
terioribus parvis linearibus. 
A shrub, with slender terete woody shortly pubescent branch- 
lets. Leaves shortly petioled, 11-2 in. long, acute, deltoid or 
rather rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, minutely denticulate, 
green and glabrous on both surfaces. Capitula in an ample ter- 
minal panicle, with corymbose pilose branches, crowded, shortly- 
stalked. Involucre campanulate, 1 in. long; bracts 2-4-seriate; 
