530 LXXI. COMPOSITA, [ Vernonia 
that the name Molilu is a collective one of three or four species of 
elegant bushes with white fragrant flowers belonging to Composite, 
and that the flowers furnish abundant food for bees. The word is 
derived from the root lulu of the verb cululu, to taste bitter. 
28. V. amygdalina Delile, Cent. Pl. Meroé, p. 41 (1826); O. & 
H. in Oliv. F]. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 284. 
Vernonia sp. Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 206 (1884). 
IsLtanp or St. THomas.—A small tree or an arborescent shrub, 
with a medicinal bitter root and purple corollas. In mountainous 
places at the outskirts of the forest at Monte Caffé, between 1500 and 
2000 ft. alt. Local name “ Libé”’ ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1860. No. 3265. 
29. V. mumpullensis Hiern, sp. n. 
Rootstock thick, woody, branched, decumbent and descending ; 
stems several, erect or ascending, simple or nearly so, sulcate- 
striate, more or less woolly with soft whitish curly hairs, rather 
slender, 5 to 8 in. high, leafy; leaves alternate, oval or oblong, 
obtuse at both ends, sessile, entire or repand, somewhat pubescent 
with soft whitish hairs chiefly beneath at the base and along the 
margin and nerves, minutely punctulate, ? to 14 in. long by } to 
3 in. broad; capitula sub-hemispherical, many-flowered, = to 1,in. 
in diameter, terminal, solitary or two together ; peduncle } to 1 in. 
long, densely pubescent; involucral bracts pluriseriate, bright 
straw-coloured, pubescent and scattered with little glands outside, 
glabrous inside, mostly apiculate; the lips sometimes spreading ; 
the outer ones lanceolate short: the inner ones continually 
longer ; the innermost linear-oblong, persistent, $ in. long ; flowers 
purple ; corolla about + in. long, narrowly tubular, scattered with 
minute glands outside, not much dilated above, rather shortly 
5-lobed ; lobes narrowly lanceolate-oblong ; anther-base sagittate ; 
style-branches puberulous, tapering (in one case 3) ; achenes 3; in. 
long, unequally 10-ribbed, irregularly quadrangular, glabrous on 
the ribs except the base,somewhat hispid and glandular between the 
ribs, with a broad basal callus; pappus 4 in. long, golden-yellow, 
biseriate ; the outer row short, all the setz scabrid-hispidulous. 
Hviiia.—In bushy pastures submitted to burning in winter, near 
Mumpulla ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3343. 
Nearly related to V. monocephala Harv. 
The description is taken from three specimens which had evidently 
sprung from an old burnt stock, and which possibly do not represent 
the normal condition of the species when allowed to grow up to its 
full height. 
30. V. orchidorrhiza Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 
A nearly glabrous, pale, yellowish-green, glossy herb, 4 to 10 
in. high; rhizome tuberous, fasciculate, the tubers suggesting 
those of an orchis but their base produced into a descending 
stout fibre; stems several, erect, straight, simple, glabrous 
below, sometimes sub-obsoletely tomentose towards the apex, 
slender, fragile, leafy throughout; leaves alternate, narrowly 
linear, crowded, directed upwards, rather thick, glabrous, glisten- 
