Vernonia] LXXI. COMPOSIT#, 517 
2. V. Kreismanni Welw. ms., sp. n. 
A small tree, 5 to 8 ft. or more high, with a straight trunk 
1 to 2} in. in diameter, or a shrub of 5 to 6 ft.; branchlets sub- 
terete, more or less densely clothed with a short pallid felt, leafy ; 
leaves alternate, entire or minutely and remotely denticulate, 
ovate or oval, shortly apiculate at the obtuse or sub-acuminate 
apex, unequal and obtuse or sub-cuneate at the base, thinly cori- 
aceous, very bright-green, thinly scattered with minute glands 
and glabrate or thinly hairy above, clothed with a snow-white 
felt beneath, 2 to 5 in. long by 1 to 2 in. broad; lateral veins 
6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, very slender on the upper face ; 
capitula homogamous, about 15-flowered, with an ovoid pluri- 
seriate involucre about } in. long surmounted by a thick bundle of 
persistent pappus exceeding the involucre by about + in., the whole 
head being somewhat constricted across the middle and presenting 
the shape of a thick shaving-brush, arranged on pedicels of } to 
& in. in terminal branched corymbs 2 to 6 in. in diameter ; in- 
volucral scales varying from rotundate to oblanceolate, ranging 
up to + in. long, dry, 1-nerved, concave, hard glabrous and greenish 
except "the subscarious ciliolate whitish margins, darker about the 
tip ; corolla purple or of a whitish-violet colour, tubular, narrowly 
funnel-shaped, deeply 5-cleft, segments from a broad base gradually 
acuminate, spreading, glabrous or scattered externally with some 
minute glands ; anthers with rather long tails at their base ; 
achenes compressed-quadrangular, branny-glandular between the 
angles, otherwise glabrous, } to } in. long ; pappus biseriate, pale 
straw-coloured, setose, } in. long, the outer row of set short 
squamiform and fimbriate-denticulate at the apex, the inner row 
elongated, rather rigid, thick, sub-compressed, shortly and densely 
pilose, slightly tawny towards the apex ; style-branches subulate. 
Hvitia.—In clearances of the forests of Catumba, where in March 
1863 the Munanos pitched their camp, sporadic and not frequent ; fl.- 
bud, end of Oct. ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3260. In the rocky 
forests of Morro de Lopollo, after the shedding of the fr., Jan. 1860. 
A bush form, apparently of this species. No. 3261. 
The foliage of this plant somewhat suggests that of Tarchonanthus 
camphoratus Lu. It belongs to the section Lepidella, or possibly it 
might be placed in Hoffmann’s section Lampropappus, to which it 
approaches. 
3. V. Burtoni O. = H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 281. 
A rough herb, 25 to 4 ft. high, with the habit of a Placus, 
presenting in fruit a shabby appearance, strictly erect, somewhat 
shrubby at the base, branched in the upper part; stem and 
elongated branches striate, scabrid, terete, purplish below, some- 
what tawny above, hispidulous; leaves alternate, broadly ellip- 
soidal, shortly narrowed to an apiculate apex; narrowed in an 
acuminate manner to a sessile or subsessile base, membranous, 
yellowish-green and more or less scabrid above, somewhat tawny 
or paler or subglaucescent and more or less rough with hispidu- 
lous hairs beneath, 2 to 6 in. long by 2 to 22 in. broad; midrib 
