Vemonia.] lxxiii. composite; (oliver and hiern). 285 



42. V. g>ulneenalB, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 427. Shrnbby. 

 Shoots, young parts and underside of leaves velutinous-tomentose, 

 ferruginous. Branches straight, large, spreading, terete, striate, alter- 

 nate or rarely opposite. Leaves alternate or occasionally opposite, 

 lanceolate or elongate, acute, narrowed to a subsessile base, serrate, 

 glabrescent above, ranging up to 5 in. long by 1^ in. wide. Capitula 

 campanulate or at length hemispherical, 20-30-flowered, ^— | in. wide, 

 on unequal pedicels varying up to j in. long, in a lax wide corymbose 

 "cyme. Scales of the involucre softly pubescent outside, appressed, 

 dark at the tip, persistent ; outer ovate acute ; inner oblong, blunt, 

 intermediate narrowly elliptic. Receptacle naked. Corolla gradually 

 narrowed ; lobes lanceolate-prolonged, acute. Anthers deltoidly pro- 

 duced at both ends. Pollen globose, echinate. Achenes oblong 

 or subturbinate, slightly or scarcely narrowed downwards, y\^ in. long, 

 not callus-based, shortly finely and patently hispid in about 10 series, 

 minutely glandular, terete, about 10-costate. Pappus pluriseriate, ru- 

 fescent, minutely barbellate, setse compressed, subdilated ; outer series 

 successively shorter, outermost very short, subpaleaceous. 



TTpper Guinea. Sierra Leone, (fl. blue) G. Don ! Afzelius ! Smeathman! 



43. v., grerberaeformis, 0. 8f H. A dwarf acaulescent perennial 

 herb, about 6 in. high, from a thickened woolly rootstock. Leaves 

 radical, oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, attenuate towards the short 

 clasping petiole, repand- denticulate, glabrous, thin, 4-6 by f- 1^ in. 

 Scapes f-1^ in. long, puberulous, bearing one or more narrowly linear 

 acute bracts. Heads solitary, widely campanulate, f-1 in. long, erect. 

 Involucral bracts lanceolate, acute, puberulous, persistent, loosely ap- 

 pressed in few (about 3) rows, ^-f in. long, accompanied at base by 

 some spreading narrowly linear acute bracts like those on the scape. 

 Flowers bluish. Corolla-lobes deep, narrow, var^^ing to &-7. Achenes 

 shortly hirsute, 10 ?-costate. Pappus pluriseriate ; setsB stiflBy barbel- 

 late, unequal, subrufous ; a few outermost setes short. 



nrile lana. Bongo-land, near Addai, Sckweinfurth ! 



44. V. Infundibularls, 0.8f S. A rigid glabrous herb of several 

 feet. Branches terete, striate, leafy. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, 

 obtuse or somewhat apiculate, coriaceous, narrowed to the subsessile 

 base, 1-3^ by ^— | in., quite entire or very nearly so. Heads turbinate, 

 attenuate below, many-flowered, solitary or few together, on peduncles 

 of 1^-2^ in., erect, l-lj in. diam. Involucral bracts linear or the 

 outer one^ lanceolate, subapiculate, puberulous outside, multiseriate, 

 the innermost nearly 1 in. long, the outer successively shorter, the 

 outermost very small. Flowers bluish violet. Achenes | in. long, 

 hairy, about 10-costate. Pappus rufous, multiseriate, about J in. long. 

 Receptacle somewhat convex, -^ in. diam. 



Vile Kand. Niamniam-land, Acker near Kulenscho, Sckweinfurth ! 



45. V. SobwelnfUrthll, 0. ^ U. Stems several, from a peren- 

 nial woody stock, erect or ascending, virgate, puberulous below, gla- 



