VerTwnia.] Lxxiii. coMPOSiTiE (oliver and hiern). 273 



sometimes broad lax 1 ft. in. diameter in the taller specimens. Scales 

 of involacre pluriseriate, subappressed, densely pilose with loose whitish 

 hairs, linear-subulate, acute, darker or purplish at the tip. Receptacle 

 deeply alveolate. Corolla purple, gradually narrowed, scattered with 

 small sessile glands. Anther-base shortly pointed, acute. Achenes 

 6-angled, angles hispid, glandular between, callus-based. Pappus 

 whitish duplex persistent barbellate, outer short squamiform, inner 

 J in. long erect. 



Vpper Guinea. Niger, Barter ! 



ITile Ziand. Madi, Speke and Grant ! (Journ. App. 637. Vemonia No. 3) ; be- 

 tweea rivers Bahr-Dembo and B-Djur, in fields of Sorghum, Heuglin ; Djnr-Land, 

 Schweinfurtk ! 



9. V. Petersli, 0. ^ H. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud. xxix. 

 p. 90. Herb of 1-3 ft. ; stems erect or ascending, sparingly branched, 

 striate, snbangular, shortly crisped or scabrid- pubescent from a 

 short woody stock. Leaves alternate, linear or ovate-oblong or ob- 

 lanceolate, obtnse or acute, mucronata, narrowed to the sessile or sub- 

 sessile base, scabrous above, scabrous-pnbescent beneath; 1-4 in, long, 

 ^-^in. broad. Capitnla campanulate-hemispherical, ^in, broad, about 

 60 -flowered, in few-headed narrow panicles, subsessile or lateral pe- 

 duncles varying to | in. Scales of involucre pluriseriate, linear or 

 linear- lanceolate, acnte, the outer silky-pilose, inner obscurely S-nerved ; 

 tips of outer scales recurved ; receptacle alveolate. Corolla- tube and 

 lobes thinly setulose, tube gradually narrowed. Anther-base sagittate. 

 Achenes obconical, unequally 4-5-gonous, setulose chiefly on the angles, 

 sessile-glandular and at length tubercular-scabrid between, with few or 

 no setsB. Pappus duplex, scabrid, pale tawny ; outer squamiform scales 

 lanceolate acute denticulate above; inner setae rigid fragile caducous. — 

 Crystallopollen latifolium^ Steetz in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 364, t. 48a. 



Xrile ]Lancl. Karague (Speke Journ. App, p. 637, Vemonia, n, 8), Speke and 

 Grant ! fl. December, 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Boror and Kios de Sena, Dr. Peters ! 



We have the same plant sent by Mr. Baines from the " South African Gold Fields," 

 1870. 



10. V. Steetzlana, 0. ^ H. Erect pubescent slender annual of 

 1-3 ft., branches costate slightly hairy scaberulous. Leaves subcoria \ 

 ceous, rigid, linear, narrowed to each end, entire, margin revolute, 

 scabrid above, paler usually hairy and punctate beneath, lower 1-3 in. 

 long 1-2 lines broad. Capitula campanulate about 50-flowered, \ in. 

 long Jin. broad, on pedicels of -^-2 in., forming ample much-branched 

 many-headed panicles ; involucral scales 4-5-seriate, hirsute or thinly 

 villous, linear-lanceolate subobtuse and apiculate with short spreading 

 tips. Achenes of F. Petersiiy but angles (5-7) with slightly longer 

 more crowded hairs and faces less rugose, sessile-glandular. — Crystal- 

 lopollen angusti/oliumj Steetz in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 366, var. ft. 

 chlorolepis, Steetz, I.e. 



BKosamb. l>lstr. Inhambane, Peters .' Kaimba Island, opposite Tett<». Kirk .' 

 VOL. Til. 



