Vernonia. | LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 297 
rounded, persistent, inner caducous, # in. long, oblong, acute, often 
tipped with pale purple. Receptacle narrow. Achenes about 10-cos- 
tate, setulose but not densely so, dark brown, sessile-glandular. 
Pappus nearly white, sub-biseriate, barbellate, setiform ; outer shorter. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Gondar, D’Héricourt ! 
78. V. myriantha, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p.198. A tree 
of 20 ft., with dark angular striate glabrate branches, pubescent to- 
wards the extremities. Leaves alternate, membranous, narrowly ellip- 
tical or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, narrowed into the 
petiole, unequally serrulate, obsoletely puberulous beneath, at length 
glabrate, varying to over 1 ft. in length and 3 in. in breadth; petiole 
1-2 in., dilated and clasping at the base. Capitula 4-5-flowered, shortly 
pedicellate or sessile, in dense corymbose terminal and axillary panicles 
2-1 ft. broad. Involucral scales multiseriate, coriaceous, glabrous or 
ciliolate, outer much smaller, ovate-rotundate; inner oblong, obtuse, 
with a dark apical spot, caducoug. Receptacle narrow, glabrous. Co- 
rolla gradually narrowed, glabrous. Anther-base obtuse ; apical con- 
nective lanceolate, obtuse. Achenes 9-10-ribbed, scattered with 
ascending pilose hairs, callus-based. Pappus sub-uniseriate, scabrid, 
prittle ; Sete mostly equal with a few shorter ones, yellowish-tawny, 
rigid. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Clarence Peak, 4-5000 ft. alt., Mann! Cameroon 
Ountains, 3_7000 ft. alt., Mann! flowers in December. 
EXCLUDED AND UNKNOWN SPECIES OF VERNONIA. 
_. Vernonia cernua, Boj., which is Moguinia Bojeri, DC. Prodr. vii. p. 28, from the 
Island of Zanzibar, is waknown to as, and its proper position in the Natural Order 
18 Uncertain. See Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 490. _ 
Vernonia Rueppelii, Schultz, Bip. in Walp. Rep. ii. p. 946, from Abyssinia, has 
the numerous few-flowered capitula of the section Strobocalyx, but the flowers are 
said to be yellow ; it is unknown to us. 
Cyanopis Borianiana, Schultz. Bip. in Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 284, nam 
only, from Sennaar, is unknown to us. 
?. HERDERIA, Cass. ; Benth. et. Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 282. 
Capitula homogamons, florets tubular. Involucre campanulate or 
emispherical, scales pauciseriate, imbricate, free, or inner confluent 
their length. Receptacle naked. Corolla regular, 5-fid. Style- 
branches subulate, minutely hairy. Achenes acutely or obscurely 3—5- 
§0nous, glabrous or hairy, apex truncate. Pappus of short ascending 
or at length stellate-patent scales, ciliate or pubescent, often with 1 or 
more sete, exceeding the coroniform scales.—Diffuse decumbent leafy 
oe herbs. Leaves alternate. Capitula small, solitary or loosely 
Ymose, 
Hitherto only found in North Tropical Africa. 
eads solitary, terminating the leafy branches. Inner involucral 
scales connate. . Achenes angular, glabrous . oe 
Heads | fs ch nes 
Yabo om soviet — zee yeaa oy 9 . 2. A. stellulifera. 
1. H. truncata. 
