274 Lxxiii. cOMPOSiTiE (OLIVER AND hiern). [Veruouia. 



11. V. Poskeana, Vatke et Hildebrandt in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitsclir.^ 

 1875, p. 324. An erect simple or branched slender annnal, 1-3 ft. 

 high. Stem terete, striate, softly and inconspicuously pubescent, 

 leafy. Leaves alternate, linear, acute, attenuate to a slightly dilated 

 and sessile base, repand or entire, thinly puberulous, glandular, ranging 

 up to 3 in. long by \ in. broad. Capitula subturbinate, ^ in. wide, 

 many-flowered, on pedicels -iV~l i^- l^^g* i^ ^ terminal corymbose 

 panicle 2-3 in. wide. Scales of the involucre multiseriate, outer ovate- 

 lanceolate, inner linear-oblong, acute, with a long dark setiform patent 

 apiculous, pubescent ; receptacle not alveolate. Corolla gradually 

 narrowed, purple. Anther-base acutely produced. Achenes (imma- 

 ture) shortly hairy ; hairs sub-5-7-seriate. Pappus duplex, sordid ; 

 outer squamiform with lanceolate imbricating squamae, inner setos rather 

 few, barbellate, deciduous. — CrystallopoUen angustifulium, Steetz in 

 Peters, Mossamb. Bot. p. 366, a. forma vulgaris, Steetz, I.e. 



Mozaxnb. 3>lstr. Zambesiii, Shupanga, fl. June, Dr. Kirk/ Zanzibar Island, 

 Hildebrandt .' Eios de Sena, Peters! 



12. V. Kirkli, 0. ^ H. Herb of 1^-3 ft. from a short woody 

 stock. Stem erect, branched above, angular, striate, shortly and thinly 

 pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves alternate, linear or linear- oblong, nar- 

 rowed to each end, acute, upper sessile or subsessile, lower with a 

 short winged petiole, scabrid above, thinly pubescent beneath, 3-4 in. 

 long, ^-^ in. broad. Capitula hemispherical, I— | in. diameter, 

 many-flowered, terminal and axillary, solitary on shortly pubes- 

 cent peduncles 1-3^ in. long. Scales of involucre pluriseriate, 

 thinly pilose above, scarious with herbaceous midrib, with a darker 

 patent or recurved apiculus, outer smaller lanceolate, inner oblong ; 

 receptacle not alveolate. Anther-base obtuse. Achenes 8-10-costate, 

 sparingly pilose on the ribs and with some sessile glands between. 

 Pappus duplex, barbate, sordid ; outer squamiform linear-lanceolate 

 ciliate, inner caducous. 



Mozamb. Sistr. Zambesia, Shupanga and Mazzano, Dr. Kirk ! Dr. Stewart ! 



13. V. demulans, Vatl-e in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr., xxvii. p. 195 

 (1877). An erect herb 1^-2 ft. high, branched at least above. 

 Branches terete striate, patently and appressedly rufous-pubescent. 

 Leaves alternate, oblong or ovate or obovate-oblong, acute, rounded or 

 narrowed at base, subsessile, entire or subentire, appressedly pubescent 

 and squamulose, 1-2 in. long by ^—^ in. wide, without lateral veins. 

 Capitula subhemispherical, 12-20-flowered, on unequal pedicels up to 

 1 in, long, in divaricate lax cymes 6-8 in. wide. Scales of the in- 

 volucre pubescent, pauciseriate, outer ones subulate, ciliate, inner 

 lanceolate-linear longer apiculate. Receptacle glabrous, yV~8 ^"- "^i^®- 

 Corolla glabrous, gradually narrowed, purple. Anther-base shortly 

 produced. Achenes tetragonous, 4-costate, narrowed to callous base, 

 setulose, sessile-glandular. Pappus duplex, subrufous ; outer squami- 

 form short lanceolate ; inner setae barbellate, deciduous. 



Mozamb. Bistr. 6° 8' S. Lat. East Coast, Forbes ! Zanzibar Coast, at Mom- 

 bassa, Kirk! Hildebrandt! 



