Vernonia.] -—sLXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). 279 
alternate, membranous, more or less elliptical, apiculate, obtuse or sud- 
denly narrowed at base, denticulate or repand-dentate, dark and puber- 
ulous or thinly pilose above, pale slightly tawny and tomentose be- 
neath, ranging up to 4 in. long and 2 in. wide. Petioles about 4 in. 
long, villous-tomentous. Capitula about 12-flowered on unequal pedi- 
cels, in rather dense corymbose or rounded terminal panicles 3~6 in. 
wide. Bracts linear or filiform. Receptacle small convex glabrous. 
Scales of the involucre rather few, narrowly lanceolate, apiculate, vil- 
lous ; inner oblong-lanceolate nearly glabrous, lower at length spread- 
Ing, somewhat smaller. Corolla gradually narrowed, sessile-glandular ; 
lobes hair-tipped. | Anther-base shortly produced. Achenes pale, 
5-angled, with a few sparse short sete between the angles. Pappus 
scabrous, reddish, duplex ; outer sete few, very short. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Bojer, Dr. Kirk! Peters! Hildebrandt! (in dry 
places), 
27. Vv. urticeefolia, Rich Fl. Abyss. i. 378. Diffuse or scandent 
shrub of 2-8 ft. or more, with terete striate often flagelliform branches 
glabrous or pubescent at the extremities. Leaves alternate, ovate 
narrowly elliptical or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, narrowed to the 
base, glabrous or scabrid above and thinly pubescent beneath, serru- 
late crenate-denticulate or subentire, 2 or 3 to 5 in. long, 1-1} in. 
broad ; petioles short, varying to} in. Capitula campanulate, 4-3 in. 
Jam.., shortly pedicellate in crowded or lax axillary and terminal cymes 
Collected in ample panicles. Scales of involucre 3—4-seriate, obtuse or 
subobtuse, with or without a mucro, outer ovate, inner longer, oblong, 
nearly glabrous. Corolla gradually narrowed. Anther-base shortly 
Sagittate. Ovaries obscurely 8-10-costate (the alternate ribs weaker 
and not reaching the base), glabrous, callus-based. Achenes 4-5-cos- 
tate (ex Vatke). Pappus biseriate or subimbricate, setiform, subequal, 
barbellate, subferruginous, outer shorter.—V. (Cyanopis) jflagellaris, 
Vatke in Linnea, xxxix. p. 479 (1875). 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Petit! Schimper ! Ankober Roth ! 
28. Vv, Plumbaginifolia, Fenzl, in Flora, 1844, p. 312. Herbace- 
ous, 13-2 ft. high, much branched from a woody stock; branches 
rete, striate, puberulous. Leaves alternate, obovate-oblong or the 
Upper linear, rounded at the apex or the upper ones obtusely pointed or 
*Piculate, narrowed at the base, puberulous, entire, }-1} in. long, 
30-3 in, wide, sessile or subsessile. Capitula subcampanulate, many- 
©wered, 4 in. wide, on slender pedicels varying to 13 in. in divaricate 
much branched terminal cymes. Scales of the involucre pauciseriate, 
Outer Jax lanceolate, inner oblong, lanceolate and acute at apex, pur- 
Plish and pubescent towards tip and sessile-glandalar outside, glabrous 
inside, 3-nerved. Corolla sessile-glandular, gradually and uniformly 
narrowed. Achenes 4-5-sided and -costate, pilose, obscurely sessile- 
Slandular. Pappus duplex, barbate, sordid ; outer sete short. 
Mile Lana, Sennaar, Kotschy! Bongo-land, Schweinfurth ! 
