Vernonia. } LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). 275 
14, V. violacea, O. & H. ez Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. 
p.91. An erect branching herb 2-3 ft. high. Branches ascend- 
ing, subangular, striate, appressedly pubescent, Leaves alternate, 
obovate-oblong, rounded at apex, base blunt, subsessile, crenate- 
dentate, with few scattered hairs on both sides especially towards the 
base beneath or glabrate, up to 3 in. long by 12 in. broad or more. 
Capitula hemispherical, many-flowered, }—3 in. wide, solitary terminat- 
ing numerons erect naked striate puberulous peduncles 1-3 in. long. 
Scales of involucre 3—4-seriate, lanceolate or inner narrowly lanceolate- 
oblong, thinly tomentose outside, acutely apiculate, purplish towards 
the tip, subappressed. Receptacle alveolate glabrous. Achenes 
usually tetragonous, setulose, turbinate. Pappus duplex; outer 
Squamiform, squame narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, denticulate ; inner 
setiform violaceous, scabrid. 
Wile Land. Madi, fl. December (Journ. App. p. 637, Vernonia, n. 7), Speke 
and Grant! common, in woods. 
15. V. cinerascens, Sch. Bip. in. Schweinf. Fl. Althiop. 162. A 
much branched shrub of 1-3 ft., branches terete covered when young 
as well as the leaves with white short appressed pubescence mixed with 
small sessile glands (the hairs attached by the middle). Leaves alter- 
nate, obovate-spathulate, rounded or obtuse at apex, attenuate at base, 
sessile, venation obscure, entire or with a few teeth, 4-2 in. long by 
¢ in. wide. Capitula about 10-flowered, of a rich purple or 
maroon colour, campanulate, scarcely } in. wide, on pedicels 4);—} in. 
long, in diffuse axillary and terminal dichotomous cymes 1—4 in. wide. 
cales of the involucre pluriseriate, lanceolate to oblong, apiculate, pu- 
Scent with greenish midrib above, lower smaller. Receptacle nar- 
Tow, glabrous. Corolla purple, gradually narrowed. Anther-base 
obtuse, Achenes with 8-10 obscure ridges, with ascending sete, very 
minutely pulverulent-glandular below the sete. Pappus duplex, bar- 
bellate, outer very short.—V. spathulata, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. 
Abyss., 1854, 2138, non Schultz Bip. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, alt. 3-4000 ft., flowers in August, Schimper ! 
Oceurs also in North-West India. 
Very like V’. atriplicifolia, Jaub. et Spach, but differs by the outer pappus being 
Setaceous not linear-squamiform; Vatke in Oesterr. Bot.«Zeitschrift, 1875, p. 323 unites 
the two species, 
16. Vv. cinerea, Less.; DC. Prodr. v. p. 24. An erect herb, 
branched above, 2-5 ft. high. Stem terete, striate, more or less shortly 
Pubescent. Leaves alternate, from ovate to obovate, apex acute or 
rounded, cuneate or attenuate at base into a short petiole slightly 
dilated at base, serrulate-dentate or subentire, puberulous or subscabrid 
*Pove, paler pubescent and veined beneath, 1-2 in. long by 3-1 in. 
Wide. Capitula campanulate, + in. wide, about 15-flowered, on slender 
pedicels 1-] jn, long, in axillary and terminal many-headed cymes. 
cales of the involucre lanceolate-linear, very acute, pluriseriate, pu- 
Scent and with minute glands, not appressed, ultimately reflexed ; 
outer filiform, patent. Receptacle convex, glabrous. Corolla-tabe 
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