294 L"xxiii. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND hiern). IVemonia. 



shorter, inner oblong or oblanceolate. Corolla gradually narrowed, 

 glabrous. Anther-base obtuse. Achenes acutely 5- (6-)angled, mi- 

 nutely glandular, glabrous, callus-based. Pappus white, scarcely 

 exceeding the involucre, duplex, outer setae very short, inner scabrous. 

 — Webhia serratuloides, Sch. Bip. mss. in Hb. Kew. 

 zrile Iiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Plowden ! 



69. V. irondosa, 0. Sf H. Stem woody, unbranched, 10-20 ft., 

 leafy, terete, striate, closely tawny-tomentose above. Leaves very 

 large, alternate, membranous, tomentose and paler beneath, dark 

 glabrate and obsolete-scabrid above ; upper obovate-elliptical, broadly 

 pointed, base narrowed into the short amplexicaul petiole, broadly 

 toothed and denticulate, lf-2^ ft. long, 7-12 in. broad. Capitula 

 many-flowered (yellowish, Barter), l^-lf in. broad, sessile on the 

 ascending branches of an ample terminal pyramidal panicle, 1-3 ft. 

 long ; bracts 1 in. more or less, lanceolate, tomentose. Involucre 

 campanulate ; scales multiseriate, appressed, acute, more or less 

 tomentose, outer ovate, inner much longer, linear, caducous. Recep- 

 tacle areolate, glabrous. Achenes glabrous, unequally (9-) 10-costate. 

 Pappus white, pilose ; setae subequal, at length widely spreading. 



Upper Guinea. Eppah, Nigritania, Barter/ 



70. V. cojiferta,,Benth.Fl.Nignt.^.4i27. Tree of 20-25 ft., with 

 stout terete tomentose leafy branches, striate above. Leaves alternate, 

 obovate- or elhptic-oblong, acute or broadly pointed, narrowed into 

 the petiole, membranous, sinuous or lobulate and remotely denticulate, 

 paler and shortly and thinly tomentose beneath, 1-3 ft. long, 3-^9 in. 

 broad ; petiole 1-3 in., tomentose, dilated and amplexicaul at base. 

 Capitula 10-18-flowered, at first oblong from a campanulate base, ^ in. 

 long, shortly pedicellate or subsessile, in spiciform racemes arranged 

 in ample terminal panicles. Scales of involucre ' pubescent or thinly 

 pilose above, multiseriate, outer smaller, ovate, obtuse, divergent, 

 inner linear, acute, ^ in. long, early caducous. Receptacle areolate, 

 glabrous. Corolla greenish -white, gradually narrowed, minutely 

 sessile-glandular above. Anther-base produced, tips lanceolate. Achenes 

 about 10-costate, glabrous, callus-based. Pappus uniseriate, subequal, 

 scabrid. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, G.Don! Fernando Po, il/a»».' 

 Iiow^er Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith ! 



71. V. theophrastifoUa, Schweinf. mss. in herb. A tree? of 

 15 ft. Branchlets angular, striate, with short pale inconspicuous 

 pubescence. Upper leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, membranous, denticu- 

 late with narrow acute teeth terminating the slender nervules, acumi- 

 nate towards the sessile auriculate amplexicaul base, somewhat scurfy 

 above, puberulous beneath, IS^ by o^ in. Inflgrescence divaricately 

 flowered, nigro-subrugose. Heads sessile or subsessile, about 8-fiowered, 

 clustered 4-1 together, campanulate, ^ in. long. Involucral scales 

 pluri seriate, coriaceous, glabrous ; inner ones oval apiculate caducous, 

 outer ones successively shorter, ovate or suborbicular, obtuse. Recep- 



