284 Lxxiii. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND hiern). [Vernonia. 



pluriseriate, coriaceous, appressed in flower, ovate-elliptic to oblong, 

 broadly pointed or apiculate, dark-pointed at apex, nearly glabrous, 

 ciliate, varying to ^ in. in length. Receptacle naked, plano-convex. 

 Corolla gradually narrowed; segments lioear-subulate, 'white.' An- 

 ther-base acutely produced, -tips linear-lanceolate. Achenes 10-cos- 

 tate, glabrous, with sessile intercostal glands. Pappus ferruginous, 

 nniseriate ; setae subeqnal, shortly barbellate. — Eupatorium coloratum, 

 Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 1768. Gymnanthemum cupulare, Cass. Diet. Sc. 

 Nat. XX, 109. Baccharis seoiegalensis, Pars. Synops. ii. 424, ex Less. 

 1. c. Gonyza rutilans, Poir. in Lam. Diet. Meth. Snppl. ii, 841 (?). 

 Chrysocoma amara, Sebum, et Thon. Guin. PI. p. 3f53, ex DC. v. 68. 

 Decaneurum senegalense, DC. Prodr. 1. c. Goriyza radlata, G. aure.ay 

 G.frutescenSj Perr. in DC. 1. c. Gymnanthemum quercifolium^ Steetz 

 in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 334. V. quercifolia, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. 

 Zeitschr. xxvii. p. 194 (1877). 



Vpper Guinea. Senegambia, Michelin ! Ingram ! Bichard, BousUlon ; Niger, 

 Barter ! (side of streams), Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 



Kower Guinea. Congo ; Loango, Soyaux ! 



Mozamb. Distr. 14-19° S. Lat., Dr. Kirk! 16° S. Lat., 36° E. Long., Meller ! 

 (Native name Fantsd) Br. Stewart ! Sena and Tette, Beters ! Zanzibar, Capt, Burton ! 



Lessing describes the immature achenes as pilose. 



41. V. amyg'daliiia, Delile Voy. a Meroe^ p. 41. A freely 

 branched shrub of 6-10 ft. high, or a small tree. Branches terete or 

 somewhat angular above, striate, nearly or qnite glabrous below, 

 puberulous above. Leaves alternate, lanceolate or lanceolate-oblorg, 

 more rarely ovate-elliptical, narrowed at both ends, acute, firmly mem- 

 branous, serrulate or subentire, puberulous or glabrescent, subsessile or 

 petiolate, 4-6-8 in. long by 2 J-3 in. wide ; petioles in most forms 

 quite short, in others up to -^—1 in. long. Capitula about 20-flowered, 

 campanulate, |— J in. wide, on pedicels ^-^ in. long, in dense much 

 branched globose or pyramidal terminal panicles, 4-12 in. diam. 

 Scales of the involucre pluriseriate, ovate elhptic or oblong, obtuse or 

 subacute, pale green with darker spot near tip, scarcely glabrous or 

 ciliolate ; inner ones ^ in. long by y^j in. wide, deciduous. Receptacle 

 glabrous, flat, areolate. Corolla gradually narrowed, white. Anther- 

 $ps linear- lanceolate, -base produced. Achenes setulose, obscurely 

 10-costate, sessile-glandular. Pappus barbellate, sub-uniseriate ; setaa 

 equal or some shorter, tawny, or in some specimens rufocs. — Deca- 

 neurum amygdalinum, DC. Prodr. v. 68. Gymnanthemum amygdalinum, 

 and G. abyssinicum; Schultz Bip. in "Walp. Repert. ii. 948. Cheliusia 

 abyssinicd, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. i. n. 31, 386. F. 

 .adenostida, Fenzl ex Walp. Repert. vi. 98. Braeheilema paniculatum, 

 Br. in Salt Voy. Abyss. App. iv. p. Ixv. (?), name only. 



"OTpper Guinea. (Form usually with longer petioles, V. Vogeliana, Benth. in 

 Fl. Nigr. 427) Niger, Vogel I Barter ! Abbeokuta, Irving! 68 (Ewuro, chew-stick). Kirk! 

 Fernando Po, Mann ! * Mandundudi, Sierra Leone, Afzditts ! Kirk ! (used as a bitter). 



Xiower Guinea. Annobon Island, Burton ! Curror ! Congo, Burton ! 



Wile Ziand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Plowden ! ' Genua,' Petit ! PuUen ! White 

 Nile, Petherick ! Sennaax, Kotschy ! Abyssinian name Grahra. 



