52 COMPOSITA (Harv.) [ Vernonia. 
the inflorescence, and under surface of leaves, hairy with rough, curled 
hairs; leaves sessile, cordate at base, oblong or obovate, mucronate, 
acuminate (or obtuse ), subentire or with inflexed serratures, thinly-hairy 
above, netted-veined beneath; corymb densely many-headed, flat- 
topped; invol. scales lanceolate, acute or acuminate, woolly ; achenes 
silky. Webbia hirsuta, DC. 5, p. 73- 
Var. §. obtusifolia ; leaves, save the uppermost, broadly-obovate, bullated, very 
obtuse or shortly-cuspidate. 
Has. Katberg and Tambukiland, Z. Z./ Hutton! Bowker ; Natal, Drege, Krauss, 
293; var. 8. Natal, 7. Williamson, Gerr. § M‘K. 343. (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Stems 1—3 feet high, the whole plant coarsely-hairy, with greenish-yellow hairs. 
Leaves 14-2} inches long, 3-1} inch wide, very variable in shape, but always cordate 
at base. In var. B. the leaves are thicker, and much more strongly-netted. Corymb 
dense, 2-4 inches across. Corolla pilose. 
10. V. Sutherlandi (Harv.); herbaceous ; the simple, striate stem, 
inflorescence, and leaves thinly-hispid with rigid, mostly forked hairs ; 
leaves sessile, acute at base, oblongo-lanceolate, acute, mucronulate, few- 
toothed beyond the middle, or subentire, thinly-hispid on both sides, 
dotted beneath, penninerved; corymb pedunculate, cymose, 4—6- or 12- 
headed, the heads on longish, simple pedicels ; invol. scales lanceolate, 
acuminate, hispid; achenes densely-silky. 
Has. Klip river, Natal, 3500-4500 feet, Dr. Sutherland! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stem 1-2 feet high, the lower half closely-leafy, the upper naked, with 2—3 distant, 
small, linear-subulate, depauperated leaves. Lower leaves 14-2 inches long, $—j inch 
wide, the uppermost entire, the lower coarsely few-toothed. Pubescence in most 
places forked or stellate, rather rigid. Pedicels of the central head 4 inch, of the 
lateral 14-2 inches long. Heads many-flowered. Corolla bright purple, pilose. 
11. V. Dregeana (Sch. B. 1. c.); herbaceous; the simple, angularly- 
striate stem, inflorescence, and foliage nearly glabrous or thinly-silky ; 
radical leaves obovate, narrowed at base, mucronulate, penninerved, 
sub-denticulate, with slightly-inflexed margins, nearly glabrous; cauline 
few, remote, linear, erect, with involute margins; corymb closely many- 
headed ; invol. scales oblongo-lanceolate, mucronate, woolly ; achenes 
silky. Webbia nudicaulis, DC. Prod. 5, p. 73. 
Has. Betw. Key and Bashe, Drege/ near Grahamstown, Genl. Bolton, H. Hutton; 
Natal, 7. Williamson, Sanderson, Gerr. § M‘K. 316. (Herb. Sd., Hk., D.) 
Stem 1-2 feet high, Radical leaves several, rosulate, 2-2} inches long, }-1 inch 
wide; cauline 1 or 2 inches apart, 1~3 inches long, 1-2 lines wide, Heads on 
longish pedicels, many-flowered. Corolla pilose. 
12. V. stehelinoides (Harv. Thes. t. 156); suffruticose, paniculately 
much-branched ; the rigid, striate branches, peduncles, and foliage 
thinly appressed-pubescent, sub-canescent ; leaves sessile, narrow-linear, 
obtuse, with revolute margins, one-nerved beneath; heads terminal and 
axillary, solitary, pedunculate, about 1o-flowered ; invol. oblong, the 
outer scales roundish or ovate, obtuse, the inner oblong, subacute, 
mucronulate, all close-pressed, at first silky, becoming glabrate; achenes 
minutely-pubescent. Zey./ 1027, : 
Has. is and Crocodile river, Burke § Zey./ (Herb. Hk., D., Sd. 
Stem erect, 1-2 feet (or more?) high, be Be tebe Fo the ashe ti 
