Vernonia] LXXI. COMPOSITA. 525 
tapering, curved; nectary cupuliform, minute; young achenes 
densely hairy, unequally trigonous, with several obscurely marked 
ribs ; pappus straw-coloured, sub-biseriate, the outer set short, 
the inner +} in. long, the setz hispidulous ; receptacle areolate. 
Hviiia.—In wooded situations amongst tall herbs near Catumba, 
sporadic ; not yet in full fl. April 1860. No. 3295. 
23. V. phyllodes Hiern, sp. n. 
A smooth herb, 2 ft. high, with the habit of a Carthamus, 
pale yellowish-green, suffruticose at the base; stem terete and 
glabrate below, sulcate, branched in the upper part, somewhat 
cottony towards the apex, leafy throughout; leaves alternate, 
crowded, arranged after the manner of the phyllodes in the 
leafless acacias, oval-oblong, rather obtuse at both ends, sub- 
apiculate at the apex, sometimes 3-nerved at the subsessile base, 
fleshy-coriaceous, unicolorous, pilose when young, glabrescent or 
sometimes a little pilose near the base beneath, 13 to 24 in. long 
by } to ? in. broad, entire ; capitula broadly campanulate, # to 
1 in. in diameter, singly terminating the branches or a few close 
together terminal and subterminal (or terminating abbreviated 
subterminal branches), many-flowered ; involucres } to | in. long ; 
the scales pauciseriate, sub-equally high, more or less cottony- 
pilose on the exposed parts of the back ; the outer ones foliaceous, 
lanceolate-oblong, the inner ones closely imbricate, sub-obtuse, 
thickly coriaceous, glabrous and polished inside ; corollas white, 
3 in. long, narrowly tubular with a campanulate-oblong 5-cleft 
often spreading dilatation in the upper part; the lobes lanceolate, 
narrowed to a thickened papillose tip; anther-base obtuse, not 
sagittate; the tube partly exserted; style-branches exserted, 
rather long, puberulous, spreading and incurving, pointed; 
achenes (young) giabrous except the base, somewhat compressed, 
obscurely ribbed; pappus of a pale whitish fawn colour, 
pluriseriate, subequal, setose ; sete closely approximated, silky, 
very slender, microscopically barbellate ; receptacle pubescent. 
Punco AnpdoNnGO.—In wooded thickets by hilly places at the river 
Cuanza near Sange, abundant ; fl. and young fr. 1 May 1857. No. 3993. 
This belongs to the section HOLOLEPIs of the genus, and amongst 
the African species comes next to V. purpurea Schultz bip. 
24. V. Calulu Hiern, sp. n. 
Vernonia sp., Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 206 (1884). 
A herb, with the habit of a Serratula, 2 to 3 ft. high or in 
shady places taller ; stem brittle, terete, striate, often purplish 
and scabrid hispidulous or glabrate below, scabrid-pubescent and 
somewhat fawn-coloured above, loosely branched or nearly simple, 
uniformly leafy throughout; leaves oval elliptical or obovate, 
rather shortly narrowed or rounded and apiculate at the apex, 
obliquely and often shortly narrowed to an obtuse or wedgeshaped 
base, chartaceous, very rigid, scabrous with small rough raised 
points and hispidulous or nearly glabrous on both faces, with 
raised midrib veins and veinlets beneath, 1 to 6 in. long by 4 
