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campanulate or broadly so, + to 2 in. long, on unequal densely 
pubescent pedicels ranging up to nearly an inch in length, 
arranged in comparatively small corymbose cymes ranging up to 
2 in. in diameter terminating the stem and branches; involucral 
scales unequal from ovate and obovate to linear-lanceolate, pointed 
apiculate or acute, minutely whitish, ciliolate, rigid, bright green 
with narrow scarious margins; corolla 5-cleft, lilac, beset with 
minute orange-coloured glands, the tube narrowed towards the 
base, the lobes filiform ; style-branches shorter than the corolla- 
lobes ; achene quite glabrous, curved downwards, obtusely 5- or 
4-angular or more or less compressed, deeply furrowed between 
the ribs, truncate at the apex, without pappus-sete when ripe, 
but when young furnished with few (2 or 3) very tender web-like 
hyaline very brittle setee longer than itself ; furrows of the achene 
marked with very minute and very densely crowded brick-red 
granules recalling the fine lines of Graphidee. 
Huityia.—In half-shady grassy wooded places between Ferrio da 
Sas iene Jau, abundant ; fl. and fr. end of April, and in May 1860. 
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2. B. misera O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 11 (Sept. 1896). 
Vernonia misera O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 278. 
Loanpa.—An erect branched annual herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with 
purplish flowers. In sandy places, especially in fields planted with 
Manihot wtilissima Pohl, to the south of the city of Loanda and near 
Cabo Lombe, abundant; fl. June. No. 3306. In sandy fields at 
Museque do Luiz Gomes; fl. and fr. May 1854. No. 3307. An annual 
herb with a serratuloid habit, sub-corymbose capitula, and red flowers. 
In plantations of Manihot utilissima Pohl, abundant in the district ; 
achenes, May 1854. Cou. Carp. 678. 
BarRA DO BENGO.—A gray erect annual herb, with purple flowers. 
In fields sown with Manzhot utilissima Pohl, near Cacuaco ; fl. and fr. 
Sept. 1854 & 1857. No. 3308, and Cony. Carp. 679. 
4. VERNONIA Schreb. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 227. 
1, V. jugalis O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 270. 
GoLtunco ALtro.—A perennial herb; rhizome woody, forming 
numerous heads; flowers purple. On the drier hills in Sobato 
Mussengue ; fl. and young fr. May 1855. No. 3323. Flowers blue. 
In fields at Vazea Canaiila ; fl. and fr. June 1856. No. 3324. 
CazENGO.—An erect or obliquely ascending branched herb, 3ft. high, _ 
with red flowers. In thickets at the base of the mountains of Serra de 
Muxaula ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3321. 
Var. Dekindtii—V. Dekindtii O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. 
p. 18 (1896). 
Leaves elliptical, denticulate or sub-entire, ranging up to 6 in. 
long by 22 in. broad; petiole to nearly 1 in. ; receptacle alveolate 
in fruit or only areolar. 
Gotunco ALTo.—A herb of 3 to 4 ft.; flowers soon after expansion 
beautifully blue, at length turning violet-red. In wooded places 
previously subjected to cultivation, at the base of the mountains of 
the central Queta, fl. and young fr. June 1856. No. 3322. Banga de 
Bumba ; fl. and fr. June 1856. No. 3325. 
