292 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Vernonia. 
appendix ovate or ovate-rotundate, apiculate, recurved. Corolla gra- 
dually narrowed below. Achenes as in V. adoénsis. 
Mozamb. Distr. Shire valley, Zambesi-land, Dr. Meller! 
Dr. Kirk collected on the Manganya Hills, bounding the Shire valley a Vernonia, 
agreeing with the foregoing, excepting in the coarser dentate-serrature of the leaves, 
and the much larger ovate-acuminate recurved appendix of the intermediate involucral 
bracts, that of the outer being more or less conduplicate. It may be a distinct spe- 
cies. We should have taken it for V. mossambiquensis (Steetz), were it not for the 
gradually narrowed corolla and distinct petioles. 
62. V. mossambiquensis, 0. & H. Branches terete, striate, 
hoary-pubescent at first, at length glabrate. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 
acute, narrowed into short petiole, acutely serrate or upper denticulate 
or subentire, thinly hairy strigillose or scabrid above, closely hoary- 
tomentose beneath, 3-6 in. long; lower petioles } in., upper y5—¢ in. 
Capitula 1 in. diam., usually 2-3-nate, leaf-opposed, shortly peduncu- 
late, with a subtending leafy bract; appendix of median scales lanceo- 
late, acute, undulate, squarrose. Corolla-tube very slender, abruptly 
dilated into campanulate limb (fide Steetz). Achenes cylindrical, 
10-costate, hirsute, with long blackish hairs ; callus large ; sete ferru- 
inous, slender, shining, outer shorter.—Ascaricida mossambiquensts, 
teetz in Peters Mossamb. Bot. 358. V. polymorpha, Vatke, a. adoénsis, 
ex Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxvii. p. 194 (1877). 
Mozamb. Distr. Boror and Rios de Sena, Dr. Peters ! 
63. V. pumila, Kotschy et Peyr. Pl. Tinn. p. 37, t. 17 A. Low herb 
of 2-4 in., from a persistent woody stock ; branches erect, 1—5-headed, 
striate, sparsely hoary-tomentose, with a few alternate linear or lanceo- 
late acute denticulate sessile leaves or bracts 1-1 in. long, more oF 
less tomentose, atleast on under side. Heads 1-14 in. diam., hemi- 
spherical, on peduncles of 4-2 in., solitary or cymose; scales 3-5- 
seriate, erect, more or less tomentose dorsally, oblong-lanceolate, 
rather obtuse, apical appendix very obscure and short or obsolete. 
Corolla-tube slightly dilated above. Achenes 10-costate, setulose. 
Pappus oo-seriate, outer slender, very short, inner setaceous ; set# 
slightly dilated or linear-spathulate towards apex, rigid, shining, bar- 
bellate. 
Upper Guinea. Rio Nunez, Jardin! 
Wile Land. Madi, in woods, uncommon, Dec. Speke and Grant! Dry places 
amongst rocks, with both white and violet flowers, at Bongo, Heuglin. : 
No doubt the ordinary leaves of the plant are yet to be described. Neither 1” 
Heuglin’s plant (figured above), nor in Col. Grant’s, nor M. Jardin’s, are any give? 
off from the stock. 
64. V. insignis, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 199 (Stem 
gelia.) Attaining 10-15 ft.; branches terete, sulcate-striate, puberulous- 
tomentose above. Leavesoblong-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed below 
to a minutely auricled base, on distinct slender petioles 4-3 in. long; 
acutely denticulate-serrate, with few scattered minute hairs or glabrous, 
4-6 in. long, 1}-1? in. broad. Capitula 1$-2 in. diam., glabrate, 0? 
peduncles varying to 2in.; bracts ample, base broadly imbricating, ® 
pendix of intermediate broadly ovate, obtuse or apiculate, 4 to near'y 
