516 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Bothr iodine 



campanulate or broadly so, 1 to § in. long, on unequal densely 

 pubescent pedicels ranging up to nearly an inch in length, 

 arranged in comparatively small corymbose cymes ranging up to 

 2 in. in diameter terminating the stem and branches ; involucral 

 scales unequal from ovate and obovate to linear-lanceolate, pointed 

 apiculate or acute, minutely whitish, ciliolate, rigid, bright green 

 with narrow scarious margins ; corolla 5-cleft, lilac, beset with 

 minute orange-coloured glands, the tube narrowed towards the 

 base, the lobes filiform ; style-branches shorter than the corolla- 

 lobes ; achene quite glabrous, curved downwards, obtusely 5- or 

 4-angular or more or less compressed, deeply furrowed between 

 the ribs, truncate at the apex, without j^appus-setse when ripe, 

 but when young furnished with few (2 or 3) very tender web-like 

 hyaline very brittle setse longer than itself ; furrows of the achene 

 marked with very minute and very densely crowded brick-red 

 granules I'ecalling the fine lines of Graphide^e. 



HuiLLA. — In half-shady grassy wooded places between Ferrao da 

 Sola and Jj'iu, abundant ; fl. and fr. end of April, and in May 1860. 

 No. 4003. 



2. B. misera 0. Hoftm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 11 (Sept. 1896). 



Vernonia misera O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 278. 



LoANDA. — An erect branched annual herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with 

 purplish flowers. In sandy places, especially in fields planted with 

 Manihot iitilhshiui. Pohl, to the south of the city of Loanda and near 

 Cabo Lombe, abundant ; fl. June. No. 3306. In sandy fields at 

 Museque do Luiz Gomes ; fl. and fr. May 1854. No. 3307. An annual 

 herb with a serratuloid habit, sub-corymbose capitula, and red flowers. 

 In plantations of Maiiihot utUissima Pohl, abundant in the district ; 

 achenes, May 1854. Coll. Carp. 678. 



Barra do Bengo. — A gray erect annual herb, with purple flowers. 

 In fields sown with Maniliof utilixsima Pohl, near Cacuaco ; fl. and fr. 

 Sept. 1854 c^- 1857. No. 3308, and Coll. Carp. 679. 



4. VERNONIA Schreb. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 227. 



1. V. jugalis O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 270. 



GoLVNCo Alto. — A perennial herb ; rhizome woody, forming 

 numerous heads ; flowers purple. On the drier hills in Sobato 

 Mussengue : fl. and young fr. Mav 1855. No. 3323. Flowers blue. 

 In fields at Yazea Canaula ; fi. and fr. June 1856. No. 3324. 



Cazen(;(). — An erect or obliquely ascending branched herb, 3 ft. high, 

 with red flowers. In thickets at the base of the mountains of Serra de 

 Muxaula ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3321. 



Var. Lekindtii. — V. Deklndtii 0. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. 

 p. 18 (189G). 



Leaves elhptical, denticulate or sub-entire, ranging up to 6 in. 

 long by 2 J in. broad ; petiole to nearly 1 in. ; receptacle alveolate 

 in fruit or only areolar. 



GoLLNGO Alto. — A herb of 3 to 4 ft. ; flowers soon after expansion 

 beautifully blue, at length turning violet-red. In wooded places 

 previously subjected to cultivation, at the base of the mountains of 

 the central Queta, fl. and young fr. June 1856. No. 3322. Ban^a de 

 Bumba : fl. and fr. June 1856. No. 3325. 



