226 ON GOECEIXIA, A NEW GENUS OF VERNONIACE^. 



purplish brown, J-^ in. cliam., closely leafy up to the summit. 

 Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, orbicular or obovate, entire, 

 6-8 in. long when fully developed, rounded or deltoid at the base, 

 moderately firm in texture, green and obscurely pubescent on the 

 upper surface, matted with persistent whitish tomentum beneath. 

 Capitula 3-6 in a dense cernuous terminal corymb, on short 

 tomentose peduncles. Involucre campanulate, 15-18 lines long 

 and broad ; bracts multiserial, rigid in texture, all obtuse, the 

 innermost linear-oblong, almost colourless and glabrous, above an 

 inch long, the outer ones gradually short, all adpressed, tinged 

 with bright red, the small ones towards the base more or less 

 tomentose on the back. Flowers all uniform. Corolla an inch 

 long, with a cylindi'ical tube and a narrow limb, slit down nearly 

 to the base into 5 linear segments. Anthers pale yellow, much 

 exserted, ^ in. long, not appendiculate at the base. Achene gla- 

 brous when mature, subtetragonal, ^ in. long. Pappus of very 

 numerous stramineous very narrowly linear paleae, an inch long, 

 connate at the very base, and all deciduous together. — Glaziou 

 12842, and sent before as 12060. This is one of the most striking 

 of known Compositce, and a very interesting discovery. The genus 

 belongs to MutisiacecB in the neighbourhood of Hesperomannia and 

 Gochnatia, and w^as first described by Mr. Bentham in ' Genera 

 Plantarum,' fi*om a species found by Eiedel in Minas Geraes. This 

 is a small tree, ten or twelve feet high, with still shorter branches, 

 clothed with dense wool, sessile leaves tomentose on both sides, a 

 densely pilose achene and flowers in which the corolla-tube is 

 three or four times as long as the limb. Dr. Glaziou's fine 

 specimens supply all that is necessary to complete the generic 

 description. 



EuPATORiuM CTNEEEUM, n. sp. — A shrub, with slender terete 

 opposite branchlets, spreading at right angles, clothed with fine 

 short pubescence. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, acute, entire, 

 1-2 in. long, green and thinly pilose above, densely clothed with 

 short drab j)ubescence below. Capitula in copious panicles, with 

 densely corymbose branches ; peduncles short, at most ^ in. long. 

 Livolucre campanulate, ^ in. long and broad; bracts about 20, 

 triseriate, subcaducous ; inner lanceolate, acute, green, glabrous ; 

 outer ovate, pilose. Flowers about twelve in a head. Corolla 

 purple, under \ in. long. Achene glabrous, ^ in. long, with 4-5 

 strong ribs. Pappus white, rather longer than the achene, of 

 about 30 strongly ciliated bristles. — Glaziou 12816 ! Belongs to 

 § Heterolepu, near E. tricephalotes and Arnottii, Fl. Bras., vol. vi., 

 pt. 2, pp. 322-3. 



ViGuiERA wEDELioiDES, u. sp. — A slirub, witli terete moderately 

 stout dense pilose brown woody branches, closely leafy up to the 

 very top. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, ovate, obtuse, crenate, 

 rounded or slightly cordate at the base, subcoriaceous, green and 

 scabious on both surfaces, the veinlets beneath raised. Heads 2-4 

 in a dense terminal corymb, many-flowered, ligulate. Involucre 

 campanulate, f-i in. long and broad; bracts 3-4-serial, rigid, 

 obtuse, adpressed, the outer gradually shorter ; inner linear-oblong, 



