Vernonia. | LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). 283 
38. 'V. paucifiora, Less. ; DC. Prodr. v. p.61. Annual, erect, 1-4 
ft. high. Stem simple or branched, terete, striate, pubescent. Leaves 
alternate, elongated, acutely attenuate at both ends, serrulate, mem- 
branous, puberulous when young, slightly rough to the touch, ranging 
up to 6 in. long by 3 in. wide, dull yellowish green. Capitula 3-11 in, 
wide, on pedicels up to 3 in. long, in a rather lax terminal forking 
often leafy cyme, 4-1 ft. long, +-4 ft. wide. Scales of the involucre 
pluriseriate, linear, acute, 1-3-nerved, glandular and softly pubescent, 
the lower ones filiform at apex, scabrid, and in fruit patent or recurved, 
darker at tips. Receptacle naked, areolate. Corolla purple, gradually 
and slightly narrowed, glandular. Anther-base scarcely produced. 
Achenes covered with erect hairs, obscurely 10-costate, some of the 
ribs occasionally obsolete, callus-based. Pappus whitish, duplex, bar- 
bellate, persistent; outer sete very short, inner } in. long.—Conyza 
pauciflora, Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 1927. " V. senegalensis, Desf. non Less. ex 
DC.1.c. V. Petitiana, Rich. FI. Abyss. i.373. Conf. V. Bojeri, Less; DC.1. ¢. 
_Upper Guinea. Niger, Barter! Baikie! Dahomey, Burton! Senegambia, 
Bidjem! Roger! 
_North Central. Middle Soudan, Beurmann, fide Schweinf. Ber. Beurm. Pfl. in 
Zeitschr. Allg. Erdk. xy. p- 800 (1863). . 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Sect. iii. n. 1724, Q. Dillon and Petit! 
Ehrenberg ! Hildebrandt ! ; Cordofan, Kotschy! Red Sea, Hakeko, Lord ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Bagomojo, Hildebrandt. 
389. M. pteropoda, 0. §& H. Stem herbaceous, subterete or 
slightly angular, striate, thinly pubescent-tomentose or glabrate, 2-3 
Leaves alternate, membranous, ovate or elliptical, acute or finely 
acuminate, abruptly or gradually attenuate below into the petiole, in 
the larger leaves acutely unequally incise-dentate or in smaller leaves 
with short setiform teeth, nearly glabrous or thinly papillose-scabrid. 
above, especially on the reticulation beneath ; 5—7 in. long, 13-4 in. 
broad ; leaves of lateral shoots smaller lanceolate, finely narrowed to 
each end ; petiole 4-} in., gradually dilating above. Capitula 12-15- 
flowered, campanulate, 2 in. diam., on short slender pedicels in terminal 
and smaller lateral leafy panicles, $3 ft. wide. Scales of involucre 
piuriseriate, outer ovate or ovate-elliptical, inner oblong or lanceolate, 
subacute, mucronate, glabrous or nearly so, pale with greenish tips. 
ceptacle narrow, flat, areolate. Corolla gradually narrowed. An- 
ther-base obtuse. Achenes glabrous or very minutely scabrid, 10-(8)- 
a tate, some of the ribs occasionally lost, callus-based. Pappus white, 
uplex, scabrous ; Inner sets caducous, outer very short. 
Mozamb. Distr. Mt. Chiradzura, Manganya Hills (Sept.), Dr. Meller ! 
40. v. senegalensis, Less. in Linnea, iv. 265; non Desf. Shortly 
Softly tomentose shrub of 10-15 ft. ; branches alternate terete striate. 
Ves alternate, more or less elliptical, usually narrowed at both ends, 
roadly pointed or obtuse, nearly glabrous above, tawny-tomentose 
Sometimes subglabrescent beneath, subentire or sinuate, varying to 
Can: long, 8 in. wide, smaller above ; petiole up to 1} in. or more. 
“pitula 3-2 in. diam., on pedicels varying to # in. long, in termina 
varicate panicles, 1-1 ft. diam. Scales of suburceolate involucre 
