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filaments 4-4 lin. long, anthers 2 lin. long. Ovary turbinate, 
compressed, pubescent on the upper part ; style exserted, filiform ; 
stigma shortly bifid. Fruit about 15 lin. long, compressed, oblong, 
pubescent on the upper part. 
alahari Desert ; near Bachakuru, Lugard, 233. 
Allied to 8. Ruelliae, DC., but is much more glabrous, 
CoMPOSITAR, 
Erlangea misera, S. Moore.—Bothriocline misera, O. Hoff 
m, 
Botletle Valley, Lugard, 209; Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs. 
Lugard, 217, 
An erect annual, growing to 2 ft, high ; flowers rich purple, or 
according to Mrs, Lugard’s excellent drawing, blue-purple ; 
evidently a handsome plant. 
Vernonia fastigiata, Oli. & Hiern. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,000 ft, Mrs. Lugard, 162; Botletle Valley, 
Lugard, 204, 
Plant growing to 2 ft, high ; flowers purple. 
Vernonia vitellina, V. Br.—Gongrothamnus divaricatus, Steetz 
in Peters, Reise Mossamb, Bot, p. 342; Hook. Ic. Pl. xii. t. 1140; 
Oliv. in Fl. Trop. Afr, iil., p. 401, 
Hills according to Lugard. Nyasaland: Zomba, Sharpe, 197. 
Portuguese East Africa: Lower valley of the River Shire, Kirk, 
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characters whatever to distinguish them generically. The characters 
the style-branches 
genus Antunesia, which, as Hoffmann admits in 
Antunesia angolensis, O, Hoftm, = 
. Vernonia angolensis, NV, E. Br. 
Gongrothamnus angolensis, Hiern = 
Vernonia lutea, V. E. Br. 
= aurantiacus, O, Hoffm, = 
| Vernonia aurantiaca, V. £. Br. 
