36 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
Drscr.—Stem rigid, suffruticose at base, 1-2 feet high, cymoso- 
corymbose, glabrous; branches spreading, laxly leafy, ending in afew 
short-pedicelled or subsessile, corymbulose heads. Leaves linear or 
oblongo-linear, acute, entire or remotely denticulate, one-nerved, dotted, 
smooth, 3-14 inch long, 1-1} line wide, decurrent as a narrow wing 
to the stem. Heads corymbose or subfascicled, 3-8 together, many-flow- 
ered. Inv. scales closely imbricate in several rows, acute, mucronulate, 
membrane edged, glabrous, pale. Fem. flowers in very many rows, with 
exceedingly slender, filiform, 3-toothed corollas. Male flowers few, with 
funnel-shaped corollas, granulated on the lobes. Sty/e in the male flower 
very long, hispid, quite simple. Ovary glabrous. Achenes not known. 
De Candolle could hardly have examined a flower-head of this little 
weedy plant, or he would not have placed it in Ethulia, from which 
genus its very numerous, filiform marginal flowers and abortive disc- 
flowers generically separate it. The achene, at present unknown, may 
afford a further distinction. Sonder’s Ethulia alata (our Litogyne scabra) 
is a second species, or variety ; only to be known from LZ. glabra by its 
rough surface. In both the stems and branches are equally winged by 
the decurrent leaves. 
Fig. 1, portion of a plant, in flower; the natural size. Fig. 2, a flower head; 3, 
female marginal flower; 4, apex of its corolla; 5, male central flower; 6, lobes of its 
corolla, laid open; 7, anther; 8, pollen; variously magnified. 
156. VERNONIA STAHELINOIDES, Harv. ( Composite.) 
'V. stahelinoides: suffruticosa, paniculatim ramosa; ramis rigidis 
striatis, pedunculis foliisque adpresse pubescentibus subcanescentibus ; 
foliis sessilibus anguste-linearibus obtusis subtus uninerviis marginibus 
revolutis, capitulis solitariis terminalibus y. axillaribus pedunculatis 
10-floris; inv. oblongi squamis sericeis demum glabratis adpressis, €X- 
terioribus rotundatis ovatisve obtusis, interioribus oblongis subacutis 
mucronatis ; acheniis minute pubescentibus. 
és as Magalisberg and Crocodile River, Burke & Zeyher! Zey. 1027. (Herb. 
Descr.—Suffruticose, rigid, slender, the whole plant thinly canes- 
cent, with minute, close-pressed hairs. Stems corymbosely much 
branched, the branches straight, very erect, ribstriate, leafy throughout- 
Leaves scattered, narrow linear, obtuse, sessile, with revolute margins, 
1-1} inch long, 4-line wide, spreading. Pedunc. terminal or axillary, 
1-headed, 1-2 inches long, slender, nude. Heads oblong, 6—7 lines long, 
2-3 lines wide. Inv. scales pale brown, close lying, thinly silky or 
cobwebby, becoming nude, woolly at edge, oblong, obtuse. Achenes 
ribbed, minutely pubescent. 
This is a very singular Vernonia, with a habit quite unlike that of 
most others of this extensive and diversified genus, and is much more like 
a Pteronia, in all but generic character. Its rigid, wiry stems, slender 
leaves, and canous, close-lying pubescence, suggest that it grows in 
