316 MR. SPENCER MOORE ON THE 
terminalibus vel ex axillis superioribus oriundis fultis, in- 
volucri 4-seriatis pubescentis a flosculis bene superati phyllis 
lanceolato-oblongis obtuse acutis extimis brevibus intimis elon- 
gatis pallidis sursum fuscescentibus, acheniis nondum maturis 
parvis turbinatis 5-costatis inter costas papillis parvis albis 
dense obsitis, pappi sordide albi sursum pallide purpurascentis 
squamis linearibus setis barbellatis squamas plus quam duplo 
excedentibus. 
Hab. Nyassaland, Stevenson Road; G. F. Scott Elliot, 
no. 8271. 
Planta ex specimine unico meos ante oculos 12:0 cm. alt. 
Rami vix 0°1 cm. diam., angulati. Folia 1:0-1°5 cm. long. 
Pedunculi 8:0 cm. attingentes, puberuli. Capitula circa 0°7 cm. 
long., 0°6 cm. lat. Involucri phylla extima 0:2 cm. intermedia 
circa O-4 cm. intima 0°55 cm. long. Flosculi circa 0:7 em. long., 
puberuli; limbi lobi infra apicem hirsutuli. Achenia paullo 
ultra O°l cm. long. Pappi squame 0°13 cm. et setw 03 cm. 
long. 
The chief peculiarities of this species are the lowly habit, 
slender branches, small scattered narrowly spathulate leaves, 
ovoid heads, and barbellate pappus. 
§ Zephrodes. 
VERNONIA NATALENSIS, Sch. Bip. 
Ukambane; G. F. Scott Elliot, no. 6465. Pilgrim’s Rest 
Goldfields; Rev. W. Greenstock. Pretoria; Dr. A. Rehmann, 
no. 4064. 
V. CALYCULATA, sp. nov. Elata, caule erecto striato minute 
pubescente vel puberulo, ramulis crebro foliosis gracilibus, 
foliis sessilibus linearibus vel anguste lineari-lanceolatis apice 
mucronulatis integerrimis supra puberulis mox glabris subtus 
albide sericeo-tomentosis, capitulis parvis ad apicem ramulorum 
laxe corymbosis campanulatis pauci- (circa 10-) flosculosis, 
involucri insigniter abbreviati 4-seriatis pubescentis phyllis 
perpaucis inter se subequilongis extimis lanceolato-subulatis 
intermediis ovatis una cum intimis oblongis breviter apiculatis 
sub apice minute serrulatis ibique purpurascentibus ceteroquin 
viridibus, acheniis cylindrico-turbinatis obscure costatis dense 
pubescentibus, pappi setis exterioribus paucis quam interiores 
albo-sericeas multo brevioribus.—V. natalensis, Sch. Bip., 047» 
Britten, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. (1894) p. 18. 
