Vcrnonia.'] Lxxiii. composite (oltver and hiern). 271 



Leaves alternate, ovate and varying from oval to rlioraboidal, pointed or 

 rounded at apex, narrowed or rounded at base, with 1-8 coarse teeth on 

 eacli side, fleshy, small, subsessile or shortly stalked, ranging up to ^-1 in. 

 long by i-J in. broad. Capitula subturbinate, about 12-flowered, on 

 pedicels ^-| in. long, in terminal diehotomous or numerous small con- 

 gested cymes, forming a diffuse leafy panicle. Scales of the involucre 

 15-18, pluriseriate, from ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, outer 

 smaller, subdivergent. Receptacle naked. Corolla gradually nar- 

 rowed, glandular. Anther-base acutely produced, -tips lanceolate. 

 Achenes obtusely 6- sided, with short ascending- white seta3 between 

 the ridges. Pappus duplex, outer of short equal linear pointed squamoe, 

 inner of white barbellate caducous setas. — V. spathulata, Schultz. Bip. 

 ex Aschei^. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. p. IG'J in note, non 

 Hochst. ; '/ Ghrysocoma spatulata, Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. p. 147, n. 

 70 ; V. arabica, Decaisne ex Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. p. 154. 



xrile Xiand. Red Sea, ^^mwo .' ^Q\xmaX\, Hildchrandt ! 



Occurs also in Arabia. 



Cf. V. cinerascens, Schultz Bip. 



4. V. pandurata, lAnlc; DC. Prodr. v. p. 27. Erect simple 

 herb of 1^-4 ft. ; stem slender, terete, faintly striate, pubescent. Leaves 

 alternate, obovate or elliptical, obtuse, lower more or less narrowed below 

 into a winged petiole, auricled and amplexicaul at base, upper sessile 

 auriculate, or enate- serrate, thinly pubescent above, paler pubescent- 

 tomentose beneath, 1-3 in. long, -^-l^ in. broad, upper gradually 

 smaller and subentire. Capitula campanulate ^ in. diameter, many- 

 flowered on slender pedicels of |— 1 in. in lax divaricate corymbose 

 terminal panicles ^1 ft. wide or more. Scales of involucre pluri- 

 seriate, appressed, obtuse, glandular below, purplish towards apex, outer 

 ovate, inner linear-oblong. Receptacle glabrous, not narrow. Corolla 

 red or purplish, glabrous. Achenes with 5-6 glabrous prominent ribs 

 and appressed sparsely setose interspaces, callus-based. Pappus 

 duplex white ; outer persistent coroniform ; inner barbellate caducous. 



Xiower Guinea. Congo, Ckr. Smith! Burton! (flowers in September, Native 

 name Sunsa); Loango, Soyaux ! Ambriz, Angola, Monteiro ! 



5. V. turbinata, 0. 8^- H. in Tram. Linn. Soc. Lund. xxix. 



p. 90, t. 56, fig. B. Large herb, covered on the terete striate 

 branches, under side of leaves, and inflorescence with a close whitish 

 tomentum. Upper leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong, broadly or ob- 

 tusely pointed, somewhat narrowed at base, subsessile, entire or obso- 

 letely denticulate, scabrous and dark green above, 2^ in. long, J in. 

 broad. Capitula turbinate, many-flowered, § in. wide, on thick unequal 

 pedicels up to 1 in. long, in an elongated terminal panicle. Scales of 

 involucre numerous multiseriate, linear-lanceolate, densely tomcntose, 

 tipped with a dark green, glabrous, rigid, subpatent apiculus. Corolla 

 gradually narrowed, purple, lobes thinly pilose above. Anthers acutely 

 produced at base ; apical connective linear-lanceolate, acute. Achenes 

 4-5-ridged, sparsely setulosc between the ridges, otherwise glabrous. 



