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Folia 1:5-3:0 cm. long., 0°5-0'8 em. lat., sparsa, membranacea, 
Tnvolucri phyila exteriora 0°'7-0°8 cm. intima vix 1:0 em. long. 
Corolle circa 0°7 cm. long., obscure puberula ; harum limbi lobi 
apice setulosi. Achnia fusca, 0°2 cm. long. Pappi squame 
usque ad 0°15 cm. sete 0°4-0°7 cm. long. 
Near Vernonia demulans, Vatke, which has decidedly smaller 
heads, much shorter and less acuminate involucral leaves (the 
outermost of which are reduced in size and subulate), &e. 
Vernonia ELLiorit, sp. nov. Fruticosa, caule verisimiliter 
erecto tereti in longitudinem striato minute pubescente deinde 
glabrescente, foliis subsessilibus oblongo-ovatis acutis vel obtusis 
margine undulatis subcoriaceis supra scabridulis subtus nervis 
eminentibus reticulatim percursis ibique crasse pubescentibus, 
capitulis dense corymbosis subparvis breviter pedunculatis cam- 
panulatis pluri-(circa 18-)flosculosis puberulis, involucri circa 
6-seriatis phyllis extimis parvis subulatis acutis sursum patenti- 
bus reliquis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis intimis intermedia ex- 
cedentibus sursum purpureis, acheniis cylindricis basi paullulum 
angustatis 5-costatis puberulis necnon minute nitenti-glandulosis, 
pappi sordide albi squamis lineari-lanceolatis abbreviatis setis 
scabridis squamas multoties excedentibus. 
Hab. British East Africa, Mau at 8000 feet; G. F. Scott 
Elliot, no. 6920. 
Caulis 0-2-0°3 em. diam., intervallis 1:0-3:0 em. long. folii- 
ferus. Folia 4°0-5°5 cm. long., plerumque 1:5-2:0 cm. lat. ; 
petioli 0-2 em. long., pubescentes. Corymbi usque ad 12°0 cm. 
diam. Pedunculi usque ad 1:0 cm. long., plurinn vero minores, 
minute pubescentes. Capitula 0°8 em. long., juxta medium 
0'5 em. lat. Involucri phylla extima circa 0°15 cm., intermedia 
0°45 em.,intima 0-7 em.long. Flosculi 0°65 em. long. Achenia 
vix 0°3 cm. long., pallida. Pappi squame 0°04 cm. sete circa 
1:0 em. long. ; 
To be compared with V. Hochstetteri, Sch. Bip., from which 
the differently shaped subcoriaceous subsessile leaves with their 
short coarse crowded hairs, the puberulous involucre, and the 
different achenes serve as admirable points of distinction. 
V. viaTorUm, sp. nov. Herba humilis, caule attenuato ascen- 
dente puberulo sparsim ramoso, foliis sparsis parvis sessilibus 
lineari-spathulatis obtusissimis puberulis, capitulis subparvis 
ovoideis pluri-(virea 20-)flosculosis pedunculis tenuibus elongatis 
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