534 LXXI, COMPOSITA. [ Vernonia 
39. V. temnolepis O. Hoffm., /.c., p. 11. 
Huitia.—A herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with the habit of a Centaurea ; 
rootstock woody, few-headed ; stems several, ascending-erect, leafy 
below and with leaves at the divaricate divisions of the corymbose 
apex ; leaves vertical } capitula homogamous, many-flowered ; corollas 
tubular, elongate-funnelshaped, rather deeply 5-cleft, pale wine-red ; 
the lobes broadly linear rather obtuse and spreading, hooded-fleshy at 
the apex ; anthers hastate ; filaments glabrous; style relatively thick, 
stout, sparingly or scarcely hispidulous and a little thickened below 
the division ; the branches long, attenuate, flattish on the inner side, 
hispidulous round the outer side ; achene compressed, densely setaceous- 
pilose, with a callus at the base, truncate at the apex, the areola 
usually excentric ; pappus rigid, rough, in 2 or 3(?) rows of straight 
pilose-setulose setee more or less cohering at the base and a little 
thickened towards the apex. On rough bushy hills between Nene and 
Humpata ; a few specimens in fl. and young fr. April 1860. No. 3273. 
40, V. ulophylla O. Hoffm., /.c., p. 13. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, suffruticose at the base, 
with the habit of a Centaurea or rather of a Catananche ; stem strictly 
erect ; appendages of the involucral scales rigid, white, scarious ; 
corollas tubular, ventricose in the middle, blue or azure-bluish ; achenes 
narrowed, } in. long; sete of the pappus paleaceous, biseriate, very 
brittle. On rather dry declivities of Sobato de Bumba and de 
Mussengue ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1856. No. 3279. In sunny bushy places 
near Menha-lula ; fl. and fr. beginning of July 1855. No. 3279b. A 
herb, 23 to 4 ft. high, apparently annual ; stem thick, hard, strictly 
erect ; leaves green above, pale-tawny and felted beneath ; capitula 
resembling those of a Catananche, with whitish scales ; corollas pale- 
blue. At Menha-lula, in Sobato de Mussengue; fr. March 1855. 
CoLu. Carp. 682. 
Var. Hoffmanniana. 
V. guineensis, forma capitulis brevius pedunculatis, O. Hoffm., 
Lc., p. 12; non Benth. 
An erect, perennial, robust herb, with somewhat the habit of 
a Carthamus, 1 to 2 ft. high or more; stem clothed with a 
short pallid or somewhat tawny or ferruginous felt, terete below, 
obtusely tetragonal above, branched towards the apex at the 
inflorescence, leafy ; leaves alternate, directly upwards, obovate- 
oblong or oblanceolate, rounded and slightly emarginate or sub- 
apiculate at the apex, narrowed to or towards the sessile or 
subsessile base, thinly sub-coriaceous, rigid, yellowish-green and 
scabrid above, softly velvety and subrufous or paler beneath, 
1} to 4} in, long by } to 14 in. broad, crenate-serrate with obtuse 
or rounded and sub-apiculate teeth except towards the hase ; 
capitula broadly campanulate. many-flowered, } to # in. in dia- 
meter (exclusive of the corollas), mostly subsessile or on tomentose 
pedicels ranging up to an inch long, arranged in terminal and 
subterminal erect small pedunculate cymes, often forming a 
compound terminal somewhat leafy cyme 23 to 5 in. in diameter, 
or rarely solitary and terminal; bracts linear, tomentose ; in- 
volucral scales in about 6 rows, imbricate, linear or oblong, woolly 
