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at angustam breviter oblongam terminalem densam v. laxam 
rarius ultra semipollicarem confertze, seepius 2-flora. Bractew inferiores 
ylus 
persistens, superne glaber, filiformis, deciduus, ramis _stigmatosis "3. 
Nuzx obovoidea, triquetra, styli basi persistentis rostra 
Stendel’s original name of Hcklonia ving pera Hy fhe into 
Trianoptiles, as having been preoccupied in Alge.—G. Brn 
Fig. 1. Spikelet. 2. Flower. 3. Hypogynous scale. 4. Nut with the style not 
yet fallen off. 
PLats 1349. 
A. VERNONIA STENOCEPHALA, Oliv. 
B. VERNONIA NYASSA, Oliv. 
Composira, Tribe VERNONIEZ. 
—— ephala, Oliver, sp. nov. Frutex ramulis gracilibus striatis 
silibus adsccn- 
| bus in paniculis o s terminalibus dispositis, 
involucro piloso-tomentoso squamis insequalibus pluriseriatis appress! 
nterioribus | lanceolatis obtusiusculis muc atis apice pur- 
isioonshistelts 
Has. Lower —- north of Lake Nyassa, Mr. Thomson. . 
Kami ut videtur stricti age ramosi. Folia 1-14 = longa, lineam 
pre costa subtus minute pubescente. Capitula 4-4 4 poll. lon 
uame sevotnaei Pore sd multo breviores ovato *v. * ovali- oblong# 
obtanttineab plus minus mucronulate. 
Ripe achenes I have not seen. 
Fig. 1. Capitulum. 2. Corolla. 3. Ovary and pappus. 
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