282 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Vernonia. 
35. WV. Benthamiana, 0. § H. An erect simple or subsimple 
annual herb, 14-2 ft. high. Stem rather leafy, terete, striate, with 
stringy cortical layer, patently pubescent. Leaves alternate, peer 
ceolate, acute, gradually narrowed towards base, sessile, distantly 
serrulate-dentate or subentire, scabrous above, white-tomentose beneath, 
1-3 in. long, $-$ in. wide. Capitula subglobose, many-flowered, on 
pedicels ranging to 2 in. long, sometimes subsessile, in elongated or 
open cymes 2-8 in. wide. Scales of involucre multiseriate; outer Tows 
narrowly linear, setiform, straight, spreading, pubescent below ; mner 
narrowly lanceolate-linear with long recurved apex ; innermost trun- 
cate and fimbriate at tip, glabrous. Anther-base obtuse. Asher 
glabrous, equally and strongly 10-ribbed, terete, slightly narrowe 
below, callus 0. Pappus conspicuously barbate, uniseriate (2), very 
caducous.—Gymnanthemum angustifolium, Benth. Fl. Nigrit. 4.29. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don! Barter! Afzelius! 
36. V. Melleri, 0. § H. Erect shrub branched at least above ; 
branches ascending, subterete, striate, scabrous above, puberulous lower 
down. Leaves alternate, oblong or upper ones linear, acute, apesaie’ 
to a somewhat dilated clasping and sessile base, remotely denticulate, 
coarsely scabrous, ranging up to 6 in. long by % in. wide or eutiih 
Capitula hemispherical, many-flowered, 1 in. wide or more, on eree 
peduncles varying from 14-4 in. long, in few- or many-headed sat ft 
bose or elongate panicles, 3-6 in. wide. Scales of involucre mu 
seriate, shortly pubescent, scabrous on the margin; outer tO 
truncate or apiculate ; inner narrowly lanceolate acute apiculate, mc 
longer than the outer; tips dark purplish, spreading or peice” 
Corolla gradually narrowed; lobes lanceolate-linear, shortly fimbria 
at tip. Anther-base acutely produced, -tips deltoid, acute. Achenes 
10-costate, shortly and sparsely setulose, especially above, terete, 
slightly narrowed at both ends, callus-based. Pappus triseriate, com” 
spicuously barbate, rufous ; outer shorter. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesia, Manganja hills, Dr. Meller! 
37. V. fastigiata, 0. § H. Erect, much branched, from a woody 
stock, 1-1} ft. high, branches ascending, at length terete, puberulous 
and sharply costate above, leafy. Leaves alternate, crowded, linear, 
pubescent, scabrid, margins revolute, 4-14 in. long. Capitula cam- 
panulate, about 4-4 in. diam., solitary at the nearly naked extremities 
of the erect branches. Scales of the involucre linear or the outer 
subulate shorter, tapering to a spreading or squarrose bristle-tip, pluri- 
seriate, dark green above without paler midrib, inner matted-tomentor™ 
Receptacle glabrous, alveolate. Corolla gradually narrowed, por 
Anthers shortly pointed at base; apical connective linear-lanceolate. 
Achenes obscurely about 10-costate, rather softly pilose all over W} 
aseending hairs. Pappus duplex barbellate, outer very short; 
white. 
_ South Central. Koobie to N. Shaw Valley, Baines! ; South side of Limpop? 
River above the waterfall Impopo mené near Peeries Kraal, Noy. 1, 1871, Baines 
