Vernonia.] Lxxiii. composite! (oliver and hiern). 287 



in dense small terminal corymbs 1^-3 in. diameter. Scales of the 

 campanulate involncre lanceolate or linear-oblong, apiculate, woolly 

 outside, glabrous inside, in many rows, inner longer, apex and apicu- 

 1ns dark, yellowish beneath, innermost purplish at the tip about 

 equalling the pappus. Corolla gradually narrowed, glabrous. Anthers 

 shortly obtusely produced at base. Achenes densely setose-hirsute 

 with erect bristles, 10-ribbed ; callus prominent. Pappus duplex per- 

 sistent scabrous faintly reddish brown, outer the shorter ; subcon- 

 fluent at the base. — V. Schimj)eri, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, 

 i. n. 221, non DC. 



Wile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper! Djur-land (flowers reddish violet), Schwein- 



furth ! 



49. V. Kochstetteri, Schultz Bip. ; Walp. Eeperf. ii. p. 945. 

 Shrubby, 2 ft. or more high. Branches terete, slightly striate, shortly 

 and closely tawny- tomentose. Leaves alternate, submembranous, 

 ovate- lanceolate or lanceolate, acutely acuminate, cuneately narrowed 

 into the petiole, serrulate, upper sui-face scabrid, lower pubescent- 

 tomentose, ranging to 5 in. long by If in. wide ; petioles ranging to 

 ^ in., pubescent-tomentose, somewhat dilated and clasping at base, 

 Capitula ^ in, diameter, many-flowered, on pubescent-tomentose 

 pedicels 0-^ in. long, in rather dense terminal corymbs 2-10 in. diam. 

 Bracts on the pedicels small. Scales of the campanulate involucre 

 lanceolate or linear- lanceolate, apiculate, pubescent and purplish out- 

 side, glabrous inside, margins scarious, outer y^y, inner y\ in. long. 

 Ileceptacle naked. Corolla gradually narrowed, puberulous. Anther- 

 base shortly obtusely produced. Achenes strongly (9-) 10-striate, 

 hispid. Pappus duplex, barbellate, pale reddish brown ; inner decidu- 

 ous ; outer much shorter. — Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 373 ; Amhassa Huch- 

 steiteri, Steetz in Peters Mossamb. Bot. 364 ; Vernonia Kustliniy Hochst. 

 in Rich. I.e. 



wrile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper Local name Schuguale ! amhassa. 



50. V. Quartiniana, jRic^. i^Z. ^Z)?/ss.i. p. 379. Shrubby, branched 

 at base from a short woody stock densely tomentose at the nodes ; 

 stem erect simple above or nearly so, 1^-3 ft. high, terete, striate, softly 

 pubescent or pulverulent, densely leafy above. Leaves alternate erect 

 elliptic or the longer ones lanceolate, blunt or shortly apiculate or the 

 younger ones acute, more or less narrowed at base, smooth, pulverulent 

 when young, usually serrate; subcoriaceous, 1-3^ in. long by ;J^-l^iu. 

 wide ; petioles stout, about t\j in. long. Capitula ^-1^ in. diameter, 

 many- flowered on short pedicels arranged in many- headed terminal 

 usually pyramidal or elongated oblong panicles. Scales of the turbi- 

 nate involucre in many rows, linear, white- woolly outside inner longer, 

 mostly with dark purplish reflexed tips. Receptacle narrow, naked. 

 Corolla gradually narrowed, somewhat woolly at top of tube. Anther- 

 base shortly-produced. Achenes with 10 or more (15) equal longitu- 

 dinal ribs, densely and subappressedly hirsute ; callus prominent. 

 Pappus pluriseriate barbellate persistent, rather exceeding the invo- 



