Vernonia | LXXI. COMPOSITA, 539 
a pale-violet colour. On grassy hills on the left bank of the river 
Caringa ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3255. 
Gotunco AuTo.—A herb 24 to 34 ft. high or more, with whitish- 
lilac fowers. In hilly places by the road towards Sobato de Mussengue. 
fl. and fr. July 1855. No. 6722. <A shrub of 6 to 8 ft. shaped like 
a small tree, with spreading branches and flowers of a whitish-violet 
colour. In the eastern Queta ; fl. and fr. July 1856. Native name 
““N-délo.” No. 3256. An evergreen little shrub, 1 to 1} ft. high, 
densely ceespitose, with coriaceous shining leaves and whitish flowers. 
On the highest ranges of Sobato de Quilombo ; fr. March 1855. Pro- 
bably this species. Cou. Carp. 681. 
Punco ANDONGO.—In primitive woods a little tree 6 to 10 ft. 
high with a straight slender trunk, or in secondary woods a shrub with 
numerous stems ; bark grey, very bitter ; branches erect-spreading ; 
branchlets patent ; capitula several-flowered, very densely corymbose ; 
corollas from whitish to lilac, much liked by bees, though not very 
fragrant. Between the presidium and Sansamanda; fl. and fr. 
beginning of June 1857. Native name sometimes “ Molilu,” or more 
correctly ‘“ N-dolo.” No. 3257. 
The name ‘‘ Molilu” is also applied to V. senegalensis, V. podocoma, 
and V. auriculifera ; and the last is also called ‘‘ N-dolo,” 
48. V. podocoma Schultz Bip. ex Schweinf. & Aschers, in 
Schweinf. Fl. Aithiop. p. 287 (1867) ; O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 
Afr. iii. p. 296. 
Bumso.—Flowers whitish-lilac. In willow-beds composed of Salix 
Sapsaf Forsk. (Welw. No. 63325), by streams near Chao da Xella, 
abundant ; fr., most of the flowers having fallen, Oct. 1859. No. 3263. 
Flowers prettily violet-coloured ; (fl. and) fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3267. 
49, V. auriculifera Hiern, sp. n. 
A small tree, 8 to 20 ft. high or in secondary woods only a 
shrub of 6 to 8 ft., but mostly with a single trunk, 1 to 3 in. 
in diameter at the base, and a leafy branched head at its apex; 
branches spreading, sparse on the lower part of the plant, crowded 
at the head, gradually shorter, pithy, glabrescent ; branchlets 
hoary-tomentellous towards the apex ; leaves alternate, elliptical 
or ovate-oval, somewhat acuminate or pointed at the apex, wedge- 
shaped or nearly rounded or reniform-auriculate at the base, 
membranous (mostly destroyed by insects), the younger ones 
more or less tomentose especially beneath, the adult ones nearly 
glabrate, ranging up to 15 in. long by 6 in. broad, denticulate ; 
the teeth tipped with the continuations of ramifications of the 
venation; midrib very prominent on the under face; lateral 
veins about 12 to 15 on each side, spreading at a wide angle ; 
petioles ranging up to 2 in., somewhat dilated and clasping at the 
base, with two deciduous axillary horseshoe-shaped reniform 
stipular auricles 3 to 4 in. long; flowers solitary in each involucre, 
whitish-lilac ; involucre oblong, } in. long, sessile or subsessile, 
densely and sub-umbellately crowded on the ultimate branches 
of ample terminal corymbs ; bracteoles very small, hairy ; scales 
of the involucre imbricate often ciliolate, the outer ones shorter 
puberulous and obtuse, the inner ones elongated acuminate or 
apiculate subglabrous almost as long as the flower prettily 
