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oblong, outer much shorter, lanceolate, narrowed rather abruptly into 
a lanceolate appendix, yellowish, obscurely 5-—7-nerved, glabrous ; 
outer herbaceous-tipped, tips ultimately spreading. Receptacle 
glabrous. Corolla gradually narrowed, glabrous, slender below. 
Anther-base acutely produced. Achenes 20-striate, pubescent with 
ascending hairs. Pappus 3—4-seriate, reddish-brown, shining, barbel- 
late; outer sete shorter.—Walp. Rep. ii. 947; Stengelia controversa, 
Sch. Bip. ex Walp. Lc. (Teichostemma fruticosum, R. Br. Salt, App. 
65) ; V. polymorpha, Vatke in Linnwa xxxix. p. 476 (1875), var. micro- 
cephala, Vatke l.c., p. 4.77. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Q. Dillon and Petit; Tigre-name, Zada- 
Kurna, Ferret and Galinier (with whitish pappus and less dentate leaves). 
54. 'V. Kotschyana, Sch. Bip. ex Walp. Rep. ii. p. 947. Stem 
rect terete striate puberulous glabrescent, probably several feet in 
height. Leaves oblong-elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, acute, serrate 
or denticulate, narrowed into petiole, glabrous or sparsely papil- 
lose-scabrid above, nearly glabrous or obsoletely tomentose beneath, 
3-6 in. long on flowering branches 3-24 in. broad, sessile or petiole 
varying to din. Capitula 14-2 in. diameter, on puberulous pedun- 
cles $-2 in, long, in lax terminal somewhat forking cymes; scales 
lax erect puberulous or glabrate wavy linear-lanceolate acuminate, 
the outer continuous from and consolidated with the turbinate di- 
lated base of the receptacle, the intermediate slightly. constricted 
near the base, 1 in. long, more or less, innermost linear with terminal 
appendix; receptacle concave, naked. Corolla gradually narrowed 
into a long slender tube. Achenes equally 20-striate, shortly pilose 
with ascending hairs ; setee 3—4-seriate, finely pointed barbate.—V. poly- 
morpha, Vatke in Linnea, xxxix. p. 477, 3. ambigua, Vatke l.c. (1875) ; 
Stengelia Kotschyana, Hochst. in Hb. Kotsch. Nub. n. 290; Ascari- 
cida Kotschyana, Steetz in Peters Mossamb. Bot. 359, adnot. 
Mile Lana. Petherick! Sennaar and Cordofan, Kotschy ! Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
V~. Kotschyi, Schultz. Bip., ex Schweinf. Fl. thiop. p. 287, n. 2654 is probably 
meant for the above species, . 
Var. latifolia. Heads few together ; pedicels }-3 in. long, not thickened at the 
a. Receptacle somewhat convex, % in. diameter. Leaves oval, ranging up to 10 
Y 4 in., narrowed at the base into the short petiole, serrate-dentate, membranous, 
glabrous above, thinly pubescent or obsoletely tomentose beneath. Pappus rufous. 
chenes the same as in the species. . 
Wile Lana. Bongo-land, Schweinfurth ! on rocks near Addai. 
59. WV. Buchingeri, Sch. Bip. ex Steetz in Peters Mossamb. Bot. 
P- 359, adnot. Stem erect 1d ft. from a woody stock, sulcate with thinly 
Scattered pubescence, glabrate. Leaves sessile, almost concealing the 
stem, oblong-lanceolate, acute, denticulate-serrate with thinly scat- 
red minute crisped hairs on both sides. Capitula resembling those 
sy. Kotschyana in size, in few-headed terminal cymes ; appendix of 
median scales ovate-lanceolate subacute (not acuminate) glabrous or 
Nearly so. Corolla-tube gradually narrowed. Achenes probably as in 
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