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relief on the lower; flowers very prettily rosy-purple; capitula 
homogamous, discoid, about 12-flowered; involucral scales not 
numerous, rather lax, imbricate, broadly lanceolate, rather pilose on 
the back, the inner ones longer than the outer, gradually subulate at 
the apex ; corolla tubular, a little widened towards the apex, deeply 
5-lobed ; the segments linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse, erect-patent, 
not reflexed; anthers bi-caudate at the base, with the apical 
appendage lanceolate-acuminate ; style-branches tardily exserted, sub- 
cylindrical, acutely subulate at the apex, pubescent ; achene curved 
downwards, truncate, hispidulous, somewhat angular-compressed ; 
setee of the pappus hispid, partly biseriate ; those of the inner row 
becoming white, strict, almost as long as the corolla; those of the 
outer row few, a quarter the length of the inner ones, occasionally 
almost reduced to none or only single. In sunny somewhat stony 
pastures on the summits of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta in 
company with Pleiotaxis (Welw. Herb. No. 3893) and Dicoma anomala 
Sond. (Welw. Herb. No. 3613), abundant ; fl. and fr. Nov. and Dec. 
1855. Also on elevated rather dry declivities amongst the mountains of 
Alto Queta ; scarcely fl. Sept., fl. and young fr. Nov. 1855. No. 3332. 
20. V. sculptifolia Hiern, sp. n. 
Shrubby ; stem or branches leafy, dusky and covered with a 
short thin pallid felt below, with a thicker pale yellowish-white 
felt above, terete, 24 ft. high or more, divided at or near the 
inflorescence ; leaves alternate, spreading, oval-oblong, obtusely 
narrowed at the scarcely apiculate apex, wedge-shaped or obtuse 
at the sessile or subsessile base, firmly subcoriaceous, glabrescent, 
scabrid yellowish-green and with impressed venation on the upper 
face, softly felted whitish and with raised venation on the lower 
face, 1 to 3 in. long by } to 1 in. broad, denticulate or subrepand 
on the margin ; capitula campanulate, 2 in. long, on short woolly 
pedicels arranged in a dense compound corymbose terminal cyme 
3 to 6 in. in diameter; involucral scales pauciseriate, acute, 
glabrous on the inner face, woolly on the outer; the outer ones 
narrow, + in. long, the outer ones lanceolate, 4 in, long ; corollas 
purple, + in. long, salver-shaped, shortly 5-cleft, scattered with 
small glands outside ; lobes lanceolate, acute; anthers with acute 
tails at the base and acutely produced at the apex ; style exserted, 
with two puberulous rather short tapering branches; nectary 
elevated, small, fleshy, surrounding the base of the style ; achenes 
setulose, obscurely about 7-ribbed; pappus about + in. long, 
sordid, in one row with a few outer short sete ; the sete his- 
pidulous ; receptacle somewhat foveolate. 
HuituiaA.—In rather dry wooded thickets between Monino and Eme ; 
fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3333. At Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. 
No. 3334. 
Nearly related to V. teucrioides Welw. 
21. V. pratensis Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect rather slender scabrid herb, 23 ft. high or more; 
stem simple below the inflorescence, hispidulous, sulcate-striate, 
angular above, uniformly leafy; leaves alternate, directed 
upwards, lanceolate, rather obtuse, callus-tipped, rounded at the 
