90 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОЕ THE 5РЕКЕ AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
[Common weed, 1 to 2 feet high, with mauve flowers, in October, at Unyoro.—J. А. G.] 
Plate LV. fig. 1. Involucre; fig. 2. Floret; fig. 8. Stamens; fig. 4. Style-branches; 
fig. 5. Achene. | | 
2. VERNONIA Реввоттети, Sch. Bip. in Walp. Rep. ii. 947. Annua, erecta е basi 
lignosa, 13-23 ped. alta; ramis sursum sæpius confertis, pubescentibus ; foliis adscenden- 
tibus, anguste linearibus, revolutis, scabridis ; capitulis solitariis, pedunculatis, terminali- 
bus; involucro campanulato, tomentoso; bracteis multiserialibus, gradatim longioribus, 
arcte appressis, acutis, exterioribus brevioribus lanceolatis, interioribus lineari-lanceolatis ; 
receptaculo alveolato, glabro ; corolla inæqualiter lobata; acheniis 7-9-costatis, glandu- 
losis, costis hispidis; pappo exteriore anguste squamiformi brevissimo, interiore setaceo, 
barbellato.— Polydora stæchadifolia, Fenzl, in Flora, 1844, 312; У. аслай о а, Sch. 
Bip. in Walp. Rep. vi. 98; Webbia serratuloides, DC. Prod. v. 72, fide Sch. Bip. in 
Schweinf. Fl. Æthiop. 162; Vernonia no. 2, App. Speke's Journ. 687. 
Caulis erectus, basi sæpius simplex, superne ramos axillares, adscendentes, numerosos, subfastigiatos 
emittens: ramis costatis, tenuiter appresse. pubescentibus. Folia 3-2 poll. longa, obtusiuscula, sæpius 
revoluta, strigillosa v. glabrata. Capitula purpurea, ad apices ramorum solitaria, 4—1 poll. diam. ; bracteis 
involucralibus 5-6-seriatis, apice viridiusculis v. interioribus purpureis, valide l-nervosis. Anthere 
basi breviter sagittatæ, apice acutæ. 
Hab. Madi, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant ! 
Apparently widely spread in North Tropical Africa. 
[Above a foot in height, growing in dry ground at Unyoro in the woods. The people mix the ashes 
of this and Hygrophila spinosa with water, and then extract salt by evaporation.—J. А. G.] 
Plate LVI. A. fig. 1. Floret; fig. 2. Stamens; fig. 8, Style-branches; fig. 4. Sete of 
pappus. : 
3. VERNONIA TURBINATA, Oliv. & Hiern, in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. (ined.). Lignosa ; ramis 
teretibus striatis, incano-tomentosis; foliis (ramulorum) subsessilibus, elliptico-oblongis, 
obtusis v. late acutiusculis, supra scabris, subtus tomentosis ; capitulis turbinatis, breviter 
pedunculatis v. subsessilibus, in paniculas angustas terminales dispositis ; bracteis invo- 
lucri 5—7-seriatis, lineari-lanceolatis, dense tomentosis, apice арісшо rigido, glabro, brevi 
armatis; corolla tubulosa purpurea; antheris basi acute productis; acheniis 4-5-angu- 
latis, inter costas sparse setulosis; pappo exteriore brevissimo squamiformi, interiore 
setaceo caduco. 
Capitula $ poll. lata, dense tomentosa. Corolla sursum leviter dilatata, lobis tenuiter pilosis, 
Hab. Madi, in flower (Vernonia no. 5, App. Speke's Journ. 637), Dec. 1862, Col. 
Grant ! E 
| Our single specimen hardly suffices to enable me to describe the plant. It consists of a single lateral 
flowering branch, with a portion of the axis from which it springs termina 
| ting іп а short, leafless, some- 
what racemose panicle; the heads subsessile on peduncles varying to an inch or so. 
[Erect, woody, tall plant, found on dry ground in the Madi woods, in flower, December —Ј. A. G.] 
Plate LVI. B. fig. 1. Involucre; fig. 2. Floret; fig. 3. Stamens; fig. 4. Setæ of 
pappus. 2237 
4. VERNONIA PETERS, Oliv. & Hiern, 
caule erecto, ramoso, erispe pubescente ; 
acutis v. obtusis, 
in ГІ. Trop. Afr. iii. (ined.). Herba 13-2 ped.; 
foliis lineari- v. ovali-oblongis, oblanceolatisve, 
mueronatis, subsessilibus ; capitulis campanulato-hemispheericis, oo-floris, 
