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Hab. Nyassaland, Mount Milangi; A. Whyte. Shiré; G. F. 
Scott Elliot, no. 8471. 
Folia 6:0 cm. x 0°6 cm. attingentia, modica vero 2°0-3:0 long., 
0'1-0°2 cm. lat., marginibus revolutis. Involucra vix 0°3 em. 
long., et totidem diam.; phylla extima 0°18 em. reliqua 0°25 cm. 
long., uninervia. Flosculi 0°5 cm. long., extus puberuli. 
Achenia fere 0°2 cm. long., 0°05 cm. lat. Pappi sete exteriores 
0°1-0°15 cm. interiores 0-4 cm. long. 
Distinguished from Vernonia natalensis, Sch. Bip., by inter alia 
the narrower leaves, the remarkably short involucre, and the 
achenes with a shorter pappus. 
Vernonia Kraussit, Sch. Bip. 
Transvaal, Pretoria; Dr. A. Rehmann, no. 4450. Orange 
River Colony, Reitfontein ; Id. no. 3692. 
V. nrrsuta, Sch. Bip. . 
Transvaal, Pilgrim’s Rest; Rev. W. Greenstock. Pretoria ; 
Dr. A. Rehmann, no. 4457. 
§ Cyanopis. 
V. Leopount, Vatke. 
Somaliland, Sheik Mahomet; Dr. Donaldson Smith. 
V. asTertFonia, Baker. 
Nandi, 6-7000 feet; G. F. Scott Elliot, no. 6695. 
V. Nestor, sp.nov. Fruticosa, erecta, rigida, sursum ramosa, 
ramis rigidis una cum caule crebro foliosis, caule valido subtereti 
striato dense sericeo-hirsuto deinde pubescente, foliis approxi- 
matis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis sessilibus basibus leviter am- 
plexicaulibus supra necnon subtus dense sericeo-hirsutis demum 
pagina superiore pilorum delapsu scabridulis, capitulis dense 
corymbosis mediocribus obovoideis multiflosculosis, involucri 
pubescentis 6-seriatis phyllis extimis anguste lineari-lanceolatis 
acuminatis reliquis lineari-lanceolatis apiculato-acuminatis viri- 
descentibus apice sepe leviter purpurascentibus, achenils sub- 
eylindricis obscure 5-costatis pubescentibus, pappi albidi setis 
exterioribus brevibus mterombus scabridis exteriores longe 
excedentibus. 
Hab. Nyassaland; Buchanan, 1891, no. 44; 1895, no. 129. 
Caulis 0°4-0°5 em. diam. Folia modica 3°5-4°0 cm. long., 
0°9-1-2 cm. lat., juniora vero multo minora sc. 1°0-1°5 em. long., 
0°5-0°6 em. lat. Capitula fere 1°5 em. long., sursum 1°0 cm. lat. 
