Vernonia] LXXI, COMPOSITA. 533 
elongated, pilose along the inner face; achenes turbinate, densely 
silvery-pilose ; pappus pluriseriate, white, setose. Habit of some 
robust Llephantopus. In the rather dry wooded pastures of the 
Monino, abundant ; fl. and fr. end of Feb. 1860. Collected at the 
war-time. No. 4006. 
35. V. lampropappa O. Hoffm., /.c., p. 14. 
Punco ANDONGO.—No notes. Fl. No. 3291. 
This and the two next species constitute a new section of the genus 
characterized by the segments of the pappus being more or less flattened 
and subpaleaceous instead of setiform and called LamMpropappus by 
O. Hoffmann, /.c. 
36. V. eremanthifolia O. Hoffm., /.c., p. 15. 
Houitita.—At the outskirts of Panda forests (cf. Berlinia and 
Brachystegia) between Eme and Lopollo ; not yet in open fl. Feb. 1860, 
No. 3292. Flowers purple in the cleared thickets near Nene, beginning 
of June 1860; or pale-blue in the drier bushy places near Humpata, 
where it occurred sparingly and a few flower-heads in April 1860 ; f1. 
and fr. No. 3293. 
37. V. Britteniana Hiern, sp. n. 
A rigid, rather slender, subtomentose, erect, apparently shrubby 
herb ; stem sulcate-striate, terete, leafy, purplish and subglabrate 
below, clothed above with a very short whitish felt; leaves 
alternate, oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse and subapiculate at the 
apex, gradually narrowed to a sessile base, denticulate or sub- 
repand, yellowish-green and minutely scabrid above, whitish- 
tomentellous with a very short felt and black-punctulate beneath, 
1 to 34 in. long by } to } in. broad ; capitula campanulate-oblong, 
i in. in diameter, sessile or subsessile, in clusters a few together 
arranged in a compound terminal rather lax corymbose or sub- 
hemispherical cyme about 6 in. in diameter; involucral scales 
pluriseriate, obtuse or apiculate, the outer ones shortly woolly ; 
the inner ones longer, oblong, ranging up to 2 in. long, with a 
short scarious rounded subglabrous apical appendage ; corollas 
violet-coloured, + in. long; tube rather abruptly widened above 
the pappus, shortly 5-lobed ; lobes lanceolate ; anthers exserted, 
acutely produced at the base into long tails, shortly produced at 
the apex; style-branches exserted, puberulous, tapering, curved ; 
achenes broadly oblong, somewhat compressed, 10-ribbed, shortly 
hispid ; pappus sub-biseriate, ;4, in. long, rather tawny, setz 
rather compressed, minutely setulose; receptacle nearly flat, 
areolate. 
HuviLia.—In wooded places amidst shrubs between Eme and the lake 
of Ivantila, rare ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3281. 
Nearly related to V. cardiolepis O. Hoffm., but more slender, narrower 
in its leaves and flower-heads, and rather woolly involucral scales. 
38. V. cardiolepis O. Hoffm., /.c., p. 12. 
Punco AnponGo.—<An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with azure-bluish 
flowers. In the Panda forests of Candumba near Condo, abundant ; 
fl. and young fr. beginning of March 1857. No. 3280. 
