282 Lxxiii. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND hiern). [Yernonia. 



35. V. Sentliainlana, 0. ^ H. An erect simple or subsimple 

 annual herb, 1^2 ft. high. Stem rather leafy, terete, striate, with 

 stringy cortical layer, patently pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblan- 

 ceolate, acute, gradually narrowed towards base, sessile, distantly 

 serrulate-dentate or subentire, scabrous above, white-tomentose beneath, 

 1-3 in. long, ^-^ in. wide. Capitula subglobose, many-flowered, on 

 pedicels ranging to 2 in. long, sometimes subsessile, in elongate^ or 

 open cymes 2-8 in. wide. Scales of involucre multiseriate ; outer rows 

 narrowly Hnear, setiform, straight, spreading, pubescent below ; inner 

 narrowly lanceolate-linear with long recurved apex ; innermost trun- 

 cate and fimbriate at tip, glabrous. Anther- base obtuse. Achenes 

 glabrous, equally and strongly 10-ribbed, terete, slightly narrowed 

 below, callus 0. Pappus conspicuously barbate, uniseriate (?), very 

 caducous. — Gymnanthemum angustifolium, Benth. Fl. Nigrit. 429. 



ITpper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G. Don ! Barter I Af::elius ! 



36. V. IMEelleri, 0, 8f H. Erect shrub branched at least above ; 

 branches ascending, subterete, striate, scabrous above, puberulous lower 

 down. Leaves alternate, oblong or upper ones linear, acute, narrowed 

 to a somewhat dilated clasping and sessile base, remotely denticulate, 

 coarsely scabrous, ranging up to 6 in. long by -f in. wide or more. 

 Capitula hemispherical, many-flowered, 1 in. wide or more, on erect 

 peduncles varying from l-|-4 in. long, in few- or many-headed corym- 

 bose or elongate panicles, 3-6 in. wide. Scales of involucre multi- 

 seriate, shortly pubescent, scabrous on the margin ; outer linear 

 truncate or apiculate ; inner narrowly lanceolate acute apiculate, much 

 longer than the outer ; tips dark purplish, spreading or recurved. 

 Corolla gradually narrowed ; lobes lanceolate-linear, shortly fimbriate 

 at tip. Anther-base acutely produced, -tips deltoid, acute. Achenes 

 10-costate, shortly and sparsely setulose, especially above, terete, 

 shghtly narrowed at both ends, callus-based. Pappus triseriate, con- 

 spicuously barbate, rufous ; outer shorter. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Zambesia, Manganja hills, Br. Meller ! 



37. V. fastlgriata, 0. ^ U. Erect, much branched, from a woody 

 stock, 1-1^ ft. high, branches ascending, at length terete, puberulous 

 and sharply costate above, leafy. Leaves alternate, crowded, linear, 

 pubescent, scabrid, margins revolute, ^"1^ in. long. Capitula cam- 

 panulate, about \-^ in. diam., soHtary at the nearly naked extremities 

 of the erect branches. Scales of the involucre linear or the outer 

 subulate shorter, tapering to a spreading or squarrose bristle-tip, pluri- 

 seriate, dark green above without paler midrib, inner matted- tomentose. 

 Receptacle glabrous, alveolate. Corolla gradually narrowed, purple. 

 Anthers shortly pointed at base ; apical connective linear-lanceolate. 

 Achenes obscurely about 10-costate, rather softly pilose all over with 

 ascending hairs. Pappus duplex barbellate, outer very short ; dirty 

 white. 



Soutb Central. Koobie to N. Shaw Valley, Baines! ; South side of Limpopo 

 Kiver above the waterfall Impopo mene near Peeries Kraal, Nov. 1, 1871, Baines/ 



