292 Lxxiii. COMPOSITE (OLITEB AND hiern). [Vemmia. 



appendix ovate or ovate-rotundate, apicnlate, recurved. Corolla gra- 

 dually narrowed below. Achenes as in V. adoensis. 



Mozamb. Bistr. Shire valley, Zambesi-land, Dr. Meller ! 



Dr. Kirk collected on the Manganya Hills, bounding the Shire valley a Vemonia, 

 agreeing -with the foregoing, excepting in the coarser dentate-serrature of the leaves, 

 and the much larger ovate-acuminate recurved appendix of the intermediate in volucral 

 bracts, that of the outer being more or less conduplicate. It may be a distinct spe- 

 cies. We should have taken it for V. mossaTnbiquensis (Steetz), were it not for the 

 gradually narrowed corolla and distinct petioles. 



62. V. moBsamblquensls, 0. ^ H. Branches terete, striate, 

 hoary-pubescent at first, at length glabrate. Leaves elliptic- oblong, 

 acute, narrowed into short petiole, acutely serrate or upper denticulate 

 or subentire, thinly hairy strigillose or scabrid above, closely hoary- 

 tomentose beneath, 3-6 in. long; lower petioles ^ ip., upper y^y-^ in. 

 Capitula 1 in. diam., usually 2-3-nate, leaf -opposed, shortly peduncu- 

 late, with a subtending leafy bract ; appendix of median scales lanceo- 

 late, acute, undulate, squarrose. Corolla-tube very slender, abruptly 

 dilated into campanulate limb (fide Steetz). Achenes cylindrical, 

 10-costate, hirsute, with long blackish hairs ; callus large ; setse ferru- 

 ginous, slender, shining, outer shorter. — Ascaricida mossamhiquensisy 

 Steetz in Peters Mossamb. Bot. 358. V. polymorpha, Vatke, a. adoensis^ 

 ex Yatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxvii. p. 194 (1877). 



Mozamb. Siatr. Boror and Bios de Sena, Dr. Peters ! 



63. V. pumlla, Kotschy etPeyr. PL Tinn. p. 37, t. 17 A. Low herb 

 of 2-4 in., from a persistent woody stock ; branches erect, 1-5-headed, 

 striate, sparsely hoary-tomentose, with a few alternate linear or lanceo- 

 late acute denticulate sessile leaves or bracts ^-\ in. long, more or 

 less tomentose, at least on under side. Heads 1-1^ in. diam., hemi- 

 spherical, on peduncles of \-2 in., solitary or cymose ; scales 3-5- 

 seriate, erect, more or less tomentose dorsally, oblong-lanceolate, 

 rather obtuse, apical appendix very obscure and short or obsolete. 

 Corolla-tube slightly dilated above. Achenes 10-costate, setulose. 

 Pappus oo-seriate, outer slender, very short, inner setaceous ; setas 

 slightly dilated or linear-spathulate towards apex, rigid, shining, bar- 

 bellate. 



Upper Guinea. Rio Nunez, Jardin ! 



2irile Iband. Madi, in woods, uncommon, Dec. Speke and Grant! Dry places 

 amongst rocks, with both white and violet flowers, at Bongo, Henglin. 



No doubt the ordinary leaves of the plant are yet to be described. Neither in 

 Heuglin's plant (figured above), nor in Col. Grant's, nor M. Jardin's, are any given 

 off from the stock. 



64. V. Inslgrnls, 'Sooh. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 199 (Sten- 

 gelia.) Attaining 10-15 ft.; branches terete, sulcate- striate, puberulous- 

 tomentose above. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed below 

 to a minutely auricled base, on distinct slender petioles ^| in. long, 

 acutely denticulate- serrate, with few scattered minute hairs or glabrous, 

 4-6 in. long, IJ-l j in. broad. Capitula l\-2 in. diam., glabrate, on 

 peduncles varying to 2 in. ; bracts ample, base broadly imbricating, ap- 

 pendix of intermediate broadly ovate, obtuse or apiculate, ^ to nearly 



