80 |. MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON PLANTS 
COMPOSITA. 
(By S. Moore.) 
VERNONIACE/E 
VERNONIA CINEREA, Less. in Linnza, iv. (1829) 291. 
Camps III to IX, 2500 to 5500 ft. 
Distrib. Widely distributed in Africa, India, the Malay Archipelago, Australia, &c. 
VERNONIA ($ SrRoBOCALYX) Krossir, S. Moore, sp. nov. 
Frutex verisimiliter ramosus. Caulis subteres, longitrorsum prominenter striatus, 
mox glaber. Ramuli sat tenues, breviter fulvo-pubescentes, puberule. Folia 
petiolata, oblongo-elliptica, apicem versus sspe attenuata, apice ipso obtusa vel 
obtuse acuta, basi longiuscule extenuata, margine integra vel pauci-denticulata, 
membranacea, supra vix omnino glabra, subtus prsesertim in nervis puberula, vulgo 
6-8 x 2-3 cm. Capitula submediocria, 4—5-floseulosa, e ramulorum axillis pani- 
culatim oriunda et ita paniculam magnam sublaxam foliis intermixtam usque ad 
30 cm. longam et fere 15 cm. latam efficientia. Pedunculi proprii involucris 
breviores, 1-4 mm. longi, fulvo-pubescentes ; capitula pansa 1 em. longa. Invo- 
lucrum cylindricum, cito campanulatum, 16:5 x3 mm.; phylla 4-5 serialia, 
exteriora caduca, longiora 3-6 mm. longa, ovata, oblonga (intima anguste ovato- 
oblonga), omnia obtusa, coriacea, margine ciliolata, dilute straminea, apice brunnea. 
Corolle exserte, 6 mm. longe.  4chenia cylindrica, turbinata, 10-costata, per basin 
rectam callosam receptaculo inserta, glabra, 9:5 mm. longa. Pappus 2-seriatus; 
sete exteriores abbreviatze, aliquanto compresse, 2:5 mm. longe, interiores longiores 
neenon angustiores, 7 mm. longs, apicem versus paullulum dilatate, dilute 
straminee nisi dilutissime rubiginose. 
Camps VI to VI 4, 3100 to 3900 ft. 
This was also collected by H. O. Forbes in British New Guinea in the Sogeri District 
at 2500 ft. (59 in Herb. Mus. Brit.). 
Leaves drying green, fairly copiously provided with pellucid glands; petioles about 
1 em. long, shallowly channelled above, tawny puberulous ; upper leaves diminishing 
in size, the highest passing into the bracts of the panicle. Partial panicles about as long 
as the leaves, 7. e. 5-8 cm. in length (the younger ones, however, shorter), their peduncles 
about 2°5 cm. long.  Corollas white, with a narrow tube suddenly dilated at the 
throat, glabrous; tube 0°3 mm. wide, the throat nearly 1 mm. wide; lobes oblong, 
obtuse, 2°5 mm. long. Style-arms 25 mm. long. 
I have seen neither V. polyantha, Warb., nor V. papuana, Lauterb., but they both 
have capitula evidently different from those of the present plant. In general appear- 
ance P. Klossi is more like V. secundifolia, Boj., from Madagascar, than any other 
species known to me. : 
