Vernonia LXXI, COMPOSITH. 527 
long; the scales multiseriate, more or less lanceolate, sub-acute, 
apiculate, puberulous or thinly pubescent on the back, scabrid- 
ciliolate on the margin, glabrous inside, adpressed or scarcely 
spreading, straw-coloured at the back except the dark-purplish 
tips; the outermost very short, subulate-lanceolate ; the inner 
successively longer; the innermost oblong-lanceolate, 2 in. long ; 
corollas purple, about = in. long (when the lobes are extended), 
narrowly tubular, not much dilated at the top of the tube, 
membranous, scattered outside with minute glands, 5-lobed; the 
lobes lanceolate-oblong, + in. long, acute; anthers with long 
lanceolate tails at their base each cohering with one of an 
adjacent anther; filaments red; style-branches long, exserted, 
puberulous, tapering, curved; achenes + in. long, with about 10 
slender ribs, nearly glabrous or with some short setule between 
the ribs ; pappus rufous, 2 in. long, pluriseriate, setose ; the sete 
setulose almost plumose, the outer setz short. 
Huiiia.—In hilly places, amongst tall bushes, between Nene and 
Humpata ; also at Ferrado da Sola; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. No. 3282. 
At the herbaceous outskirts of forests near Catumba ; fl. and young 
fr. end of March 1860. No. 3283. 
Var.? scabrior. Stem somewhat muriculate with scattered 
hard rough raised points ; leaves very scabrous especially above. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—Flowers purple. In wooded pastures between 
Lombe and Quibinda ; only one specimen, fl. and young fr. March 
1857. No. 3299. 
26. V. carnea Hiern, sp. n. 
A very scabrous, perennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high; rootstock 
thick, woody; stems several, strictly erect, simple subterete and 
purplish below, branched somewhat angular and pallid above, 
hispidulous-seabrid, striate, uniformly leafy throughout ; leaves 
oval or somewhat obovate, broadly pointed and minutely apiculate 
at the apex, more or less narrowed to a sessile or subsessile 
slightly clasping base, thinly and rigidly coriaceous, very scabrid 
on both faces with rough points and stiff short hairs on the veins 
and margin, sharply toothed, 1 to 6 in. long by 3 to 3 in. broad, 
yellowish-green above, rather paler beneath ; venation slender ; 
capitula comparatively few, # to 1 in. in diameter, many-flowered, 
hemispherical-globose, on hispidulous-scabrid unequal bracteate 
pedicels ranging up to 4 in. long in a lax terminal corymbose or 
oblong cyme 3 to 6 in, in diameter ; bracts sublinear ; involucral 
scales multiseriate, linear, glabrous or nearly so, yellowish-green 
outside on the upper half, pale straw-coloured below, subobtuse, 
finely spinulose-serrulate on the margin, loosely imbricate, erect 
or ascending ; the innermost the shortest but not so short as in 
V. huillensis and V. Calulu ; corollas violet-purple or azure-blue, 
2 in. long when extended, narrowly tubular, scarcely or shortly 
widened at the top of the tube, 5-cleft about halfway down, 
scattered outside with small glands; the lobes linear, acute ; 
anther-tube exserted except the base, flesh-coloured, sagittate- 
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