295 
2-2:5 mm. diametro, inferne nudi, superne racemoso-floriferi, 
puberuli. Pedicelli 4-8 mm. longi, puberuli, axillis tuberculiferis. 
Calyx 3-5-4 mm. longus, campanulatus, breviter 5-dentatus, 
puberulus et minute ciliatus. Corolla 1-2 cm. longa, glabra. 
varium 6 mm. longum, voir Ai Libera arent stylus 
6 mm. longus, apice 1-1-3 mm. lat 
SoutH AFRIOA. Saehiaieasa® Soshong, Holub ; Mochudi, 
I. A, Rogers 6311. 
The flowers of this plant are similar to those of Dolichos, but 
the prostrate stems, which show no trace of twining, lobed leaves, 
and the peculiar obcuneate winged style, truncate and glabrous 
at the apex, sufficiently distinguish it from that genus as well as 
from ss pieegiaae ylis. 
Vernonia fraterna, NV. H. Brown [{Compositae-Vernonieae] ; 
V. joerc pie S. Moore, simillima, sed capitulis distincte 
pedunculatis nec subsessilibus majoribus et laxioribus facile 
distinguitur. 
Frutex erectus, ramosus; rami dense tomentosi. aoe 
supra glabra, subtus dense albo- tomentosa; petiolus 6-10 m 
longus; lamina 5-8 em. longa, 2-5 em. lata, elliptica vel Seats. 
elliptica, apice acuta, basi rotundata vel late cuneata, margine 
minute denticulata vel leviter sinuata. Corymbi ye wi 
circiter 4 cm. diametro, 12—16-cephali, pedunculo 0°6—-1°2 ¢ 
longo. Capitula circiter 10-flora, 1-2 em. longa, 7-8 mm 
diametro, pedicellata; pedicelli “4-7 mm. longi, tomentosi. 
Involucrum 6-7 mm. longum, ellipsoideo-oblongum, squamis 
sub-5-seriatis late ovatis obtusis marginibus subtomentellis 
brunneis; receptaculum minute denticuliferum. Pappi setae 
5 mm. longae, scabrae. Corolla 8 mm. longa, glabra. Achenia 
4 mm. longa, angulata, striata, glabra. 
Tropican Arricoa. North-west Rhodesia : Bwana M’Kubwa, 
F. A. Rogers 8310; Mukwela, F. A. Rogers 26027. 
Sphaeranthus Rogersii, VN. H. Brown [Compositae-Inuloideae] ; 
S. hirto, Willd., affinis, sed pedunculis brevioribus, capitulis 
depresso-globosis et = nec spinuloso-dentatis differt 
Herba perennis ad 3-5 dm. (vel ultra?) alta, basi ramosa,, 
molliter villosa. Rami erecti, simplices vel superne pauciramosi, 
eonspicue alati. Folia sessilia, in alas decurrentia, 3-5-5 em. 
longa, 0-6-1-7 em. lata, superiora minora, oblongo-lanceolata, 
acuta, dentata, dentibus parvis acutis nec spinulosis, demum 
subglabrescentia. Pedunculi laterales vel terminales, 7-10 mm. 
longi. Capitula primaria circiter 1 cm. diametro, depresso-globosa, 
purpurea; involucri bracteae 14—16, biseriatae, 5-6 mm. longae, 
oblongo-lanceolatae, acutae, exteriores mucronatae. Capitula 
secundaria numerosissima, 5 mm. longa; involucri squamae 
4-5, oblongo-lineares, obtusae, 4 mm. longae; flores masculi 
1-2; flores feminei 3-4. 
Trorican Arrica. North-western Rhodesia: Mazabuka, 
F. A. Rogers 26359. 
