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foliosis, seepe ramulosis; foliis lanceolatis acutis, 1-3 poll. longis, verticillatis vel 
fastigiatis, marginibus revolutis, hirtis; fructibus minimis, 1—3nis, obovato-cuneatis, 
hirsutis, in axillis profunde insertis. Flores non vidi. 
Hab. Milanji. No. 48. 
An erect woody undershrub; stems bare below, with numerous usually short branches 
above, densely covered with inflorescence in the lower portion and continued into barren 
leafy shoots 13-3 in. long; the leaves and branches are clothed with short hairs. 
Approaching 4. emirnense in habit, but readily distinguished by the long terminal leafy 
shoots. 
ANTHOSPERMUM LANCEOLATUM, Thunb, Prod. Pl. Cap. p. 32. 
Hab. Milanji. 
Widely distributed in South Africa. 
SPERMACOCE DIBRACHIATA, Oliver, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. I. xxix. p. 88. 
Hab, Milanji, 6000 ft. Nos. 144, 162, 
GALIUM APARINE, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 108, 
Hab. Milanji. No. 132. 
A mere fragment, probably of this species. 
VALERIANA CAPENSIS, Thunb. Prod. Pl. Cap. p. 7. 
Hab, Milanji, 6000 ft. No. 114. 
The specimens differ from South African examples in the greater length of the 
elongated terminal leaflet, but I do not find other differences. The genus has hitherto 
been recorded from Tropical Africa only by Prof. Oliver (Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. IL. ii. 
p. 337), who had a single flowering specimen, insufficient for description, from Kilima- 
njaro. 
BoTHRIOCLINE SCHIMPERI, Oliver, var. LONGIPES, Oliver & Hiern, in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 
p. 266. 
Hab, Milanji, 6000 ft. Nos. 40, 125. 
VERNONIA MARGINATA, Oliver & Hiern, /. c. iii. p. 278. 
Hab. Zomba. 
VERNONIA PTEROPODA, Oliver & Hiern, 7. c. iii. p. 283. 
-Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft. 
VERNONIA GLABRA, Vatke, in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxvii. p. 194, 
Hab, Milanji, 6000 ft. 
VERNONIA PoskrgANa, Vatke € Hildebr. l. c. xxv. p. 324. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft. Nos. 98, 179, 190. 
VERNONIA ($ STENGELIA) WHyYTEANA, Britten, sp. n. Frutex erectus; ramis süb. 
angulosis, rigidis, tomentosis; foliis 2-3 poll longis, petiolatis, superioribus sub- 
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