Vernonia | LXXI. COMPOSITA. 537 
rather tomentose with pallid or whitish soft hairs often obsoletely 
so and minutely pitted beneath ; 2 to 43 in. long by } to 1 in. 
broad (the lower ones not seen), denticulate with small apiculate 
teeth ; capitula hemispherical-globular, many-flowered, # to 17 in. 
in diameter, on puberulous or scaberulous bracteate peduncles 
of about an inch long singly terminating the ultimate branches 
of the stem and forming together a leafy rather lax terminal 
subcorymbose cyme or a few together on unequal pedicels ; bracts 
sublinear, acute, several near together and near the base of the 
capitulum and supplementing the involucral scales, $ to } in. long, 
seaberulous or puberulous ; involucral scales pluriseriate, lanceolate 
oblong or nearly oblong or linear, pointed at the apex, puberulous 
or nearly glabrous outside, glabrous and shining inside, adpressed 
lower part rigid straw-coloured, upper part appendicular thinner 
purplish 2 to } in. long; the outer ones the shortest and nearly 
continuous with the upper bracts of the peduncle or pedicel ; 
corollas violet-coloured or bluish-purple, about an inch long when 
extended, scattered with minute glands outside, lower part of the 
tube very slender, 2 in. long, rather abruptly widened at the 
apex into the 5-cleft spreading upper part; the lobes lanceolate, 
subacute; anther-tube sagittate at base, with comparatively short 
tails ; apical appendages ovate ; style-branches puberulous, taper- 
ing, spreading and incurved, comparatively short ; achenes + in. 
long, shortly and densely hispid with short upward pallid hairs 
arranged in about 8 longitudinal rows ; pappus about + in. long 
or a little longer, pluriseriate, setose; the sete somewhat 
flattened, straw-coloured, ciliolate-barbellate, outer rows the 
shorter. 
Huitita.—In wooded meadows by the lake of Ivantala ; fl. and fr. 
Feb. 1860. No. 3276. Sporadic; fl. and young fr. beginning of 
March 1860. A form with smaller heads and narrower leaves tomen- 
tose beneath. Perhaps a distinct species. No. 32760. 
Nearly related to V. mossambiquensis O. & H. 
45, V.glaberrima Welw. ex O. Hoffm. p. 15. 
GoLtuneo AtTo.—An elegant herb; rootstock perennial, woody ; 
stems ascending, densely cspitose ; flowers violet-coloured. On the 
more elevated declivities of the mountains of Sobato de Bumba ; 
fl. and fr. Oct. 1855. No. 3327. A perennial herb; rootstock 
woody, many-headed ; stems numerous, erect or ascending, acutely ' 
angular; branchlets erect, thin ; leaves coriaceous, rather rigid, rather 
glossy on both faces ; capitula homogamous; flowers lilac; corolla 
tubular, whitish-rosy, ventricose, 5-cleft at the mouth, with connivent 
lobes ; the tube of the anthers deep-lilac, included ; style bifid or 
trifid, with the lobes exserted and arched. On elevated declivities of 
the mountains of the central Queta; fl. and fr, beginning of Sept. 
1856. No. 3328. In bushy hilly places in Sobato de Bumba after the 
burnings (Queimadas) ; fr. No. 3329. 
46, V. conferta Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. p. 427 (1849); O. 
& H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 294; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 206. 
V. arborea Welw. ex O. Hoftm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 172 (1893). 
