522 LXXI. COMPOSITA. [Vernonia 
acuminate-subulate, uninerved ; corollas beautifully purplish ; achenes 
obcuneate, somewhat pilose ; pappus biseriate, always white. In 
neglected fields formerly cultivated between Cazella and Luxillo, not 
common ; fl. and fr. May 1857. No. 3310. An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. 
high, with intensely violet-purple flowers. In bushy places near 
Luxillo; fl. and fr. April 1857. A form with the ripe achenes strongly 
ribbed. No. 3315. 
Hvr1iia.—Flowers violet-coloured. At the outskirts of forests, 
with tall herbage, between Lopollo and Jau, fl. and fr. end of March 
1860. No. 3341. Corollas purple. In wooded places near Ivantala ; 
one specimen, fl. beginning of March 1860. No. 3342. 
As to the connection between this species and V. cinerea Less,, see 
the note under that species. No. 3268 mentioned above may be 
distinguished as a variety and called golungensis; besides the characters 
included in the note accompanying the No.,, it has broadly ovate pauci- 
dentate nearly glabrous leaves, and very obtuse subglabrous shining 
involucral scales, the innermost ones with somewhat coloured tips, and 
the habit is very lax ; possibly it is a distinct species. 
16. V. Smithiana Less. in Linnea vi. p. 638 (1831); O. & H. 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 276, 
Webbia ? Smithiana DC, Prodr. v. p. 72 (1836). 
Punco ANDONGO.—A very elegant undershrub, silvery-shining, 
with a long-fibred woody rootstock and purple flowers. In sandy 
thickets between Cazella and the river Lutete ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. 
No. 3337. 
17. V. natalensis Schultz Bip. ex Walp. Rep. Bot. Syst. ii. 
(Suppl. i.) p. 947 (1843) ; O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 277. 
Webbia aristata DC. Prodr. v. p. 73 (1836). V. aristata 
Schultz Bip. in Flora 1844, p. 667; non Less. (1829). 
Hvrtita.—Corolla purple. In hilly situations among short grass 
near the lake Ivant4la; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. A form with the 
involucral bracts attenuately subulate-apiculate. No. 3338. 
18. V. pinifolia Less. in Linnea iv. p. 257 (1829); Harv. in 
Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 51 (1865). 
Conyza pinifolia Lam. Encycl. Méth. ii. p. 86 (1786). Webbia 
pinifolia DC. Prodr. v. p. 72; Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 5412 (1863). 
AmBaca.—An undershrub, with numerous stems from a woody 
rootstock, silvery-shining foliage, and deep violet-purple flowers. In 
hilly stony places between the river Lucala and Zamba; fl. and fr. 
Oct. 1856. No. 3335. 
Huitia.—In rather dry hilly places amongst low bushes in the 
Lopollo country, in company with Thymeleacee ; fr. March 1860. 
No. 3336. By the way to Ivantila; fl.-bud Feb. 1860. Probably this 
species. No. 3377. 
19. V. teucrioides Welw. ex O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 
p. 171 (1893). 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A perenniai herb with a woody rootstock or a 
little undershrub with habit of a Teucrium ; stems czespitose, branched, 
bearing corymbs at their apex and on the branchlets, tomentose with 
white felt ; leaves alternate, sessile, green above, white-tomentellous 
beneath, with the reticulation impressed on the upper face and in 
