Inula.) LXXIII, COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 359 
cent above, hairs arising from a glandular base. Radical leaves 
2-3 ft. long by 7-8 in. wide, membranous, narrowly elliptical, narrowed 
towards the acute apex, attenuate at base into a short petiole, denticu- 
late, fewscattered appressed hairs on both sides. Stem-leaves lanceolate 
narrowed towards the obtuse mucronulate apex, cordate-auriculate, 
sessile, amplexicaul, membranous, denticulate, whitish-woolly beneath, 
nearly glabrate and asperulous above, increasing downwards to 6-10 in, 
long by 14-54 in. wide or more. Capitula campanulate, 4 in. long, 
30-40-flowered, on short unequal pedicels, in dense corymbose cymes at 
ends of branches. Scales of the involucre pluriseriate, imbricate, un- 
equal, puberulous or pubescent ontside, ciliate, obtuse or subacute ; 
innermost linear; outer successively shorter and more lanceolate. 
Receptacle areolate, ultimately smooth, flat. 4 in. diam. Achenes gla- 
brous, obscurely 8-ribbed. Florets all hermaphrodite. Sete of the 
Pappus about 25 somewhat unequal, 1—2-seriate. — Vernonia (?) 
Mannii, Hook. fil. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. p. 198; Laggera hetero- 
malla, Vatke in Linnea xxxix. p. 487. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, 7000 ft. alt., Mann! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! a. 1863, n. 1528. 
6. I. glomerata, 0. § H. Robust herb, 4 ft. high; branches 
fulvo-puberulous, somewhat angular. Leaves oval or ovate, denticu- 
late ; upper ovate, obtuse or subacute, subauriculate, sessile, amplexi- 
canl, tomentose ; the radical ones obtuse, narrowed at base into petiole, 
membranous, asperulous above, tomentose beneath, 14 ft. long by 8 in. 
wide ; petfoles 9 in. long. Capitula pyramidal, 4-4 in. long, many- 
flowered, sessile, collected in dense subglobose clusters 1-2 in. diam. 
with leafy bracts at base, terminal and in interrupted heads at ends of 
short axillary branches. Scales of the involucre pluriseriate, unequal, 
tmbricate ; inner linear, acute, ciliate, somewhat caducous; outer 
Successively shorter more obtuse oblong and hairy at the back. Recep- 
tacle subfoveolate naked. Florets all hermaphrodite. Achenes oblong, 
»Costate, +; in. long, with few minute sete near top. Pappus uni- 
Seniate, tawny, minutely scabrid. 
Mozamb. Distr. Manganja hills, Soche, 3000 ft. alt., Dr. Kirk! 
t A solitary radical leaf from Matebele country collected by /. Baines / resembles 
ose of this species, 
43. IPHIONA, Cass.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 833. 
Capitula homogamons, discoid, the florets usually all tubular and 
“ermaphrodite. Involnucre campanulate or ovoid, bracts multiseriate, 
Imbricate, dry more or less scarious ; receptacle narrow naked. Anther- 
8Se Sagittate with slender tails. Achenes subterete (hirsute in the 
following) 8-10-costate. Pappus 1- o-seriate, sete copious. —Branch- 
Mg more or less glabrous or scabrid shrubs, with alternate entire or 
‘ovthed leaves and yellowish white capitula, either solitary or cymose. 
- small genus, chiefly Mediterranean and Mascarene. oe 
aves subulate- iseriate. . . . 1. Lscabra, 
‘ves sbnitate, Peepta aie eels wey S eorec ae ee rotundifolia. 
ves oval-oblong, minute eg pee ae 3, J ! microphylla, 
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