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Pentanisia Schweinfurthii, Hiern; F.T.A. iii. 131. 
Naraguta, low tufted herb with blue flowers, No. 29. 
Widely spread in East Tropical Africa; gathered in Nigeria 
for the first time (also at Naraguta) by Major EK. J. Lugard in 
1914, who notes the flowering of the species in blazing sunshine 
at the driest time of the year in dry stony soil. 
CoMPOSITAE. 
Vernonia pumila, Kotschy et Peyr.;.F.T.A. iii. 292. 
Naraguta, No. 30. 
Occurs also in dry stony places in Uganda (Speke & Grant) and 
“on the Bahr el Ghazal (Broun). A low plant about 3 inches 
high, leafless at the time of flowering; root-stock with long 
tapering tubers which no doubt conserve the food supply for 
the dry season. 
Helichrysum Mechowianum, Klatt in Ann. Naturh. Hofmus. 
Wien, vii. 101. (H. congolanum, Schitr. & O. Hofim. 
Jos, 21 March, No. 11; much resembles a Petasites, flowering 
before the leaves appear. 
This species was previously recorded from Agome, Togoland, 
Dolo, Congo, and from Angola, so Nigeria furnishes another link 
in its chain of distribution. The yellow flowers are very sweet- 
scented. 
Coreopsis Barteri, O. & H.; F.T.A. iii. 390. 
Jos, 21 March, No. 12. 
Apparently confined to Nigeria. This would form a very 
useful garden annual. Plants are growing at Kew from seed 
brought back from Jos. 
Senecio baberka, Hutchinson in Kew Bull. 1913, 180. 
Jos, 20 March, No. 13. 
o Cliffordianus, Hutchinson, sp. nov. [Compositae-Sene- 
cionideae] ; affinis S. barbertonico, Klatt, sed capitulis plus minus- 
ve simpliciter umbellatis, caulibus per anthesin efoliatis differt. 
Caulis crassus, carnosus, per anthesin efoliatus, cicatribus 
transverse ellipticis notatus. Folia squamiformia, decidua, 
lanceolata, basi crassa, circiter 4 mm. longa, glabra. Peduncult 
terminales, dense umbellati, simplices vel 2—3-furcati, 2-2-5 cm. 
longi, glabri, sicco acute costati, bracteis linearibus paucis 
circiter 3-5 mm. longis ornati. Capitula discoidea, oblongo- 
cylindrica, 2-5 cm. longa, medio vix 1 em. diametro. Involucri 
bracteae circiter 8, lineares, acutae, 1-5 cm. longae, 2-25 mm. 
latae, extra trisuleatae, glabrae marginibus latis membranaceis 
subhyalinis. Achaenia linearia, pluricostata, 6 mm. longa, 
glabra. Pappus albus, gracilis, usque ad 1:5 cm. longus. 
Corolla pallide flava, anguste cylindricus, apicem versus paulo 
ampliata; tubus 1-6 cm. longus, glaber; lobi anguste lanceolati, 
subobtusi, 1-5 cm. longi. 
-.. Arrica. Northern Nigeria: Jos, fl. 21 Mar. 1921, 
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