Vernonia] lxxi. composit,€. 517 



2. V. Kreismanni Wehv. ms., sp. n. 



A small tree, 5 to 8 ft. or more high, with a straight trunk 

 1 to 2i in. in diameter, or a shrub of 5 to 6 ft. ; branchlets sub- 

 terete, more or less densely clothed with a short pallid felt, leafy ; 

 leaves alternate, entire or minutely and remotely denticulate, 

 ovate or oval, shortly apiculate at the obtuse or sub-acuminate 

 apex, unequal and obtuse or sub-cuneate at the base, thinly cori- 

 aceous, very bright-green, thinly scattered with minute glands 

 and glabrate or thinly hairy above, clothed with a snow-white 

 felt beneath, 2 to 5 in. long by 1 to 2 in. broad ; lateral veins 

 6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, very slender on the upper face ; 

 capitula homogamous, about 15-flowered, with an ovoid pluri- 

 seriate involucre about j in. long surmounted by a thick bundle of 

 persistent pappus exceediog the involucre by about ^ in., the whole 

 head being somewhat constricted across the middle and presenting 

 the shape of a thick shaving-brush, arranged on pedicels of i to 

 f in. in terminal branched corymbs 2 to 6 in. in diameter ; in- 

 volucral scales varying from rotundate to oblanceolate, ranging 

 vip to i in. long, dry, 1-nerved, concave, hard glabrous and gi'eenish 

 except the subscarious ciliolate whitish margins, darker about the 

 tip ; corolla purple or of a whitish-violet colour, tubular, narrowly 

 funnel-shaped, deeply 5-cleft, segments from a broad base gradually 

 acuminate, spreading, glabrous or scattered externally with some 

 minute glands ; anthers with rather long tails at their base ; 

 achenes compressed-quadrangular, branny-glandular between the 

 angles, otherwise glabrous, f to i in. long ; pappus biseriate, pale 

 straw-coloured, setose, i in. long, the outer row of seta? short 

 squamiform and fimbriate-denticulate at the apex, the inner row 

 elongated, rather rigid, thick, sub-compressed, shortly and densely 

 pilose, slightly tawny towards the apex ; style-branches subulate. 



HuiLLA. — In clearances of the forests of Catumba, where in March 

 1863 the Munanos pitched their camp, sporadic and not frequent ; fl.- 

 bud, end of Oct. ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 1850. No. 3260. In the rocky 

 forests of Morro de Lopollo, after the shedding of the fr., Jan. 1860. 

 A bush form, apparently of this species. No. 3261. 



The foliage of this plant somewhat suggests that of TarcJionanthus 

 campltoratus L. It belongs to the section Lepidella, or possibly it 

 might be placed in Hoffmann's section Lampropappus, to which it 

 approaches. 



3. V. Burtoni O. k H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 281. 



A rough herb, 2^ to 4 ft. high, with the habit of a Placus, 

 presenting in fruit a shabby appearance, strictly erect, somewhat 

 shrubby at the base, branched in the upper part ; stem and 

 elongated branches striate, scabrid, terete, purplish below, some- 

 what tawny above, hisjjidulous ; leaves alternate, broadly ellip- 

 soidal, shortly narrowed to an apiculate apex ; narrowed in an 

 acuminate manner to a sessile or subsessile base, membranous, 

 yellowish-green and more or less scabrid above, somewhat tawny 

 or paler or subglaucescent and more or less rough with hispidu- 

 lous hairs beneath, 2 to 6 in. long by '^ to 2f in. broad; midi'ib 



