PuateE 2239, 
VERNONIA CEPHALOPHORA, Oliv. 
Compositz.. Tribe VERNONIACER. 
Has. Northern Madagascar, Baron (No. 6,264). 
Arbor verosimiliter, ramulis floriferis crassitie digiti minoris. Folia 
5-7 poll: longa, 14-3 poll. lata; petiolus 3-1} poll. longus. a ores- 
] 
Allied to V. mecistophylla, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 322, but 
De crbitala are very different in their densely pilose involucres.— 
- OLIVER. 
Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Setee of pappus, 3. Anthers. 4. Style-branches. All en- 
larged, 
