294 LXXIII. COMPOSITZ (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Vernonia. 
shorter, inner oblong or oblanceolate. Corolla gradually narrowed, 
glabrous. Anther-base obtuse. Achenes acutely 5- (6-)angled, mi- 
nutely glandular, glabrous, callus-based. Pappus white, scarcely 
exceeding the involucre, duplex, outer sete very short, inner scabrous. 
—Webbia serratuloides, Sch. Bip. mss. in Hb. Kew. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Plowden ! 
69. V. frondosa, 0. H. Stem woody, unbranched, 10-20 ft., 
leafy, terete, striate, closely tawny-tomentose above. Leaves very 
large, alternate, membranous, tomentose and paler beneath, dark 
glabrate and obsolete-scabrid above; upper obovate-elliptical,- broadly 
pointed, base narrowed into the short amplexicaul petiole, broadly 
toothed and denticulate, 12-24 ft. long, 7-12 in. broad. Capitula 
many-flowered (yellowish, Barter), 11-13 in. broad, sessile on the 
ascending branches of an ample terminal pyramidal panicle, 1-3 ft. 
long; bracts 1 in. more or less, lanceolate, tomentose. Involucre 
campanulate; scales multiseriate, appressed, acute, more or less 
tomentose, outer ovate, inner much longer, linear, caducous. Recep- 
tacle areolate, glabrous. Achenes glabrous, unequally (9-) 10-costate. 
Pappus white, pilose ; setee subequal, at length widely spreading. 
Upper Guinea. Eppah, Nigritania, Barter! 
70. V. conferta, Benth. Fl. Nigrit. p. 427. Tree of 20-25 ft., with 
stout terete tomentose leafy branches, striate above. Leaves alternate, 
obovate- or elliptic-oblong, acute or broadly pointed, narrowed into 
the petiole, membranous, sinuous or lobulate and remotely denticulate, 
paler and shortly and thinly tomentose beneath, 1-3 ft. long, 33-9 in. 
broad ; petiole 1-3 in., tomentose, dilated and amplexicaul at base. 
Capitula 10-18-flowered, at first oblong from a campanulate base, 3 in. 
long, shortly pedicellate or subsessile, in spiciform racemes arrange 
in ample terminal panicles. Scales of involucre pubescent or thinly 
pilose above, multiseriate, outer smaller, ovate, obtuse, divergent, 
inner linear, acute, + in. long, early caducous. Receptacle areolate, 
glabrous. Corolla greenish-white, gradually narrowed, minutely 
sessile-glandular above. Anther-base produced, tips lanceolate. Achenes 
a poat 10 -costate, glabrous, callus-based. Pappus uniseriate, subequal, 
scabrid. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don! Fernando Po, Mann! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 
71. V. theophrastifolia, Schweinf. mss. in herb. <A tree? of 
15 ft. Branchlets angular, striate, with short pale inconspicuous 
pubescence. Upper leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, membranous, denticu- 
late with narrow acute teeth terminating the slender nervules, acum 
nate towards the sessile auriculate amplexicaul base, somewhat scurfy 
above, puberulous beneath, 134 by 34 in. Inflorescence divaricately 
flowered, nigro-subrugose. Heads sessile or subsessile, about 8-flowered, 
clustered 4-1 together, campanulate, ¢ in. long. Involucral scales 
pluriseriate, coriaceous, glabrous ; inner ones oval apiculate caducous, 
outer ones successively shorter, ovate or suborbicular, obtuse. Recep- 
