522 Lxxi, COMPOSITE. [Vernonia 



acuminate-subulate, uninerved ; corollas beautifully purplish ; achenes 

 obcuneate, somewhat pilose ; pappus biseriate, always white. In 

 neglected fields formerly cultivated between Cazella and Luxillo, not 

 common ; fl. and fr. May 1857. No. 3310. An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. 

 high, with intensely violet-purple flowers. In bushy places near 

 Luxillo; fl. and fr. April 1857. A form with the ripe achenes strongly 

 ribbed. No. 3315. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers violet-coloured. At the outskirts of forests, 

 with tall herbage, between Lopollo and Jau, fl. and fr. end of March 

 1860. No. 3341. Corollas purple. In wooded places near Ivantala ; 

 one specimen, fl. beginning of March 18G0. No. 3342. 



As to the connection between this species and V. cinerea Less., see 

 the note under that species. No. 3268 mentioned above may be 

 distinguished as a variety and called golungensis; besides the characters 

 included in the note accompanying the No., it has broadly ovate pauci- 

 dentate nearly glabrous leaves, and very obtuse subglabrous shining 

 involucral scales, the innermost ones with somewhat coloured tips, and 

 the habit is very lax ; possibly it is a distinct species. 



16. V. Smithiana Less, in Linm^a vi. p. 638 (1831) ; O. & H. 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 276. 



Webhia ? Smithiana DC. Prodr. v. p. 72 (1836). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A very elegant undershrub, silvery-shining, 

 with a long-fibred woody rootstock and purple flowers. In sandy 

 thickets between Cazella and the river Lutete ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. 

 No. 3337. 



17. V. natalensis Schultz Bip. ex Walp. Pvep. Bot. Syst. ii. 

 (Suppl. i.) p. 947 (1843) ; 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 277. 



Webbia aristata DO. Prodr. v. p. 73 (1836). V. aristata 

 Schultz Bip. in Flora 1844, p. 667 ; non Less. (1829). 



HuiLLA. — Corolla purple. In hilly situations among short grass 

 near the lake Ivantala ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. A form with the 

 involucral bracts attenuately subulate-apiculate. No. 3338- 



18. V. pinifolia Less, in Linnsea iv. p. 257 (1829) ; Harv. in 

 Harv. & Send. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 51 (1865). 



Conyza pinifolia Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 86 (1786). Webhia 

 pinifolia DC. Prodr. v. p. 72 ; Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5412 (1863). 



Ambaca. — An undershrub, with numerous stems from a woody 

 rootstock, silvery-shining foliage, and deep violet-purple flowers. In 

 hilly stony places between the river Lucala and Zamba ; fl. and fr. 

 Oct. 1856. No. 3335. 



HuiLLA. — In rather dry hilly places amongst low bushes in the 

 Lopollo country, in company with Thymelseacese ; fr. March 1860. 

 No. 3336. By the way to Ivantala ; fl.-bud Feb. 1860. Probably this 

 species. No. 3377- 



19. V. teuerioides Welw. ex O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 

 p. 171 (1893). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A perennial herb with a woody rootstock or a 

 little undershrub with habit of a Teucrium ; stems casspitose, branched, 

 bearing corymbs at their apex and on the branchlets, tomentose with 

 white felt ; leaves alternate, sessile, green above, white-tomentellous 

 beneath, with the reticulation impressed on the upper face and in 



