180 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
VERNONIA (§ DISTEPHANUS) INULEFOLTA, N. sp. 
Fruticosa, ramulis dense breviter glanduloso-hispidis, foliis oblongo- 
spathulatis sessilibus subacutis subcoriaceis triplinerviis utrinque scabris 
venulosis copiose glandulosis, capitulis multifloris magnitudine medio- 
cribus solitariis vel parce corymbosis, involucri late campanulati bracteis 
permultis lanceolatis acutis pilosis nigris subzequilongis, achenio sericeo, 
pappi rubelli setis gracilibus flexuosis. 
A low shrub, with the lower part of the branchlets leafless, the 
upper parts with the sessile leaves near together up to the end. 
Leaves moderately firm and thick in texture, 2-3 in. long, an 
ineh broad, narrowed spathulately to the subamplexieaul base, 
triplinerved above the base, entire or obscurely denticulate 
towards the tip, green and scabrous and densely glandular on 
both surfaces, with all the veinlets raised. Heads 1-8 on hispid 
peduncles at the end of the branches. Involucre 4 in. in diam., 
4 in. long, of very numerous black acute adpressed pilose bracts. 
Flowers above 100 in a head. Corolla subeylindrical, 4 in. long, 
the subulate styles exserted j; in. from the throat. Achene 
densely white-silky ; pappus 1 in. long, of 40-50 slender flexible 
ciliated reddish bristles.— Central Madagascar, Baron 2119! 
VERNONTA ? RHAPONTICOIDES, n. sp. 
Fruticosa, ramis albido-incanis, foliis magnis oblongis acutis serrulatis 
glabris, capitulis magnis solitariis terminalibus pedunculatis, involucri 
late campanulati bracteis 2-3-seriatis rigidulis glabris adpressis æquilongis, 
exterioribus Jate ovatis, intimis lineari-oblongis vel lanceolatis, floribus 
splendide rubellis, achenio glabro, pappi setis exterioribus brevissimis, 
intimis filiformibus fragilibus rigidulis caducis brevibus. 
A shrub, with straight woody branches clothed with thin 
whitish tomentum and leafy up to the top. Leaves alternate, 
shortly petioled, 4-6 in. long, 11-2 in. broad at the middle, acute, 
distinctly serrated, moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous 
on both surfaces. Capitula solitary, on short peduncles at the 
end of the branches. Involucre about an inch broad, half an inch 
long, the outer bracts as long as the inner, adpressed, ovate- 
orbieular, 1-1 in. broad, brownish-black, glabrous, subrigid in 
texture, the inner much narrower and more membranous. Corolla 
bright red, 3 in. long, with a cylindrical tube and lanceolate seg- 
ments } in. long. Achene terete, glabrous, } in. long, the outer 
row a toothed collar, the inner of very fragile rigid whitish deci- 
duous bristles not more than half as lorg as the corolla-tube.— 
