524 LXXI, COMPOSITE. [Vernonia 
subsessile base, green on both faces, rather paler beneath, 
membranous, rigid, scabrid, not pubescent, marked with minute 
impressed pellucid points, 1 to 23 in. long by + to + in. broad; 
margin narrowly revolute, entire or rough with a few short 
prickles ; internodes shorter than the leaves; capitula cam- 
panulate-hemispherical, + to + in. in diameter, several-flowered, 
subsessile on the branches of the cyme or on scabrid angular 
rather slender rigid pedicels ranging up to an inch long, arranged 
in a compound bracteate (or somewhat leafy) terminal corymbose 
panicle about 4 in. in diameter; bracts like the leaves but 
smaller ; involucral scales pluriseriate oblong, oblanceolate or 
linear, obtuse, somewhat pale-cottony outside, unequal, ranging 
up to + in. long, more or less straw-coloured below, dark or 
purplish and often quasi-appendicular towards the apex, the 
lower ones often subapiculate; corollas purple, rather more 
than + in. long, narrowly tubular, gradually and not much 
widened upwards, with 5 linear-lanceolate sub-acute lobes; 
anther-tube acutely sagittate at the base and with lanceolate 
appendages at the apex; style-branches ae tapering, 
shortly exserted at the apex; achenes ob-pyramidal, 1, in. long, 
about 6-ribbed, scattered with small glands and short hairs ; 
pappus slightly straw-coloured, biseriate; the outer setz short, 
the inner } in, long, nearly smooth. 
Huviitua.—In the wooded meadows (varzeas) of Catumba towards 
Hay ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3364. 
22. V. catumbensis Hiern, sp. n. 
An undershrub, 4 ft. high or more; stem densely leafy below, 
divaricately branched above ; branches elongated, purple, sulcate- 
striate, terete, somewhat pubescent with whitish curly hairs ; 
leaves oblong, more or less obtuse at both ends, subapiculate at 
the apex, rounded at the sessile or subsessile base, thinly sub- 
coriaceous, yellowish-green, paler beneath, somewhat pubescent 
sometimes obsoletely so on both faces especially beneath by side 
of or along the midrib and principal veins, denticulate repand or 
subentire, 14 to 42 in. long by } to 1} in. broad; lateral veins 
not conspicuous; capitula campanulate, somewhat turbinate, 
& in, in diameter, mostly sessile and unilateral on the branches 
of the cyme, some on somewhat woolly pedicels ranging up to 2 in. 
long, arranged in rather open terminal and axillary corymbose 
or paniculate cymes; bracts like the leaves but smaller; in- 
volucral scales more or less woolly outside, pluriseriate, obtuse, 
minutely apiculate, with scarious margins and purple tips, thick 
and tough in other parts, the outermost ones very Shorty: a 
inner continually longer, the innermost lanceolate-oblong 4 
long, persistent ; flowers purple, about 18 together seit ghtnnen’ 
corollas 2 in. long, gradually widened above the middle, 5-cleft ; 
the lobes lanceolate- oblong, cohering about the middle, sub- 
obtuse; anthers obtusely tailed at the base, with lanceolate 
appendages at the apex; style-branches exserted, hispidulous, 
