Vernonia] Lxxi. comi'Osit.e. 523 



relief on the lower ; flowers very prettily rosy-purple ; capitula 

 homogamous, discoid, about r2-ttowered ; involuci'ai scales not 

 numerous, rather lax, imbricate, broadly lanceolate, rather pilose on 

 the back, the inner ones longer than the outer, gradually subulate at 

 the apex ; corolla tubular, a little widened towards the apex, deeply 

 5-lobed ; the segments linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse, erect-patent, 

 not reflexed ; anthers bi-caudate at the base, with the apical 

 appendage lanceolate-acuminate ; style-branches tardily exserted, sub- 

 cylindrical, acutely subulate at the apex, pubescent ; achene curved 

 downwards, truncate, hispidulous, somewhat angular-compressed ; 

 setfe of the pappus hispid, partly biseriate ; those of the inner row 

 becoming white, strict, almost as long as the corolla ; those of the 

 outer row few, a quarter the length of the inner ones, occasionally 

 almost reduced to none or only single. In sunny somewhat stony 

 pastures on the summits of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta in 

 company with Ple/ntaxis (Welw. Herb. No. 3893) and Dknma anouKila 

 Sond. (Welw. Herb. No. 3613), abundant ; fl. and fr. Nov. and Dec. 

 1855. Also on elevated rather dry declivities amongst the mountains of 

 Alto Queta ; scarcely fl. Sept., fl. and young fr. Nov. 1855. No. 3332. 



20. V. sculptifolia Hiern, sp. n. 



Shrubby ; stem or branches leafy, dusky and covered with a 

 short thin pallid felt below, with a thicker pale yellowish-white 

 felt above, terete, 2k ft. high or more, divided at or nenr the 

 inflorescence ; leaves alternate, spreading, oval-oblong, obtusely 

 narrowed at the scarcely apiculate apex, wedge-shaped or obtuse 

 at the sessile or subsessile base, firmly subcoriaceous, glabrescent, 

 scabrid yellowish-green and with impressed venation on the upper 

 face, softly felted whitish and with raised venation on the lower 

 face, 1 to 3 in. long by 1 to 1 in. broad, denticulate or subrepand 

 on the margin ; capitula campanulate, 'i in. long, on short woolly 

 pedicels arranged in a dense comi^ound coiymbose terminal cyme 

 3 to 6 in. in diameter ; involucral scales pauciseriate, acute, 

 glabrous on the inner face, woolly on the outer ; the outer ones 

 narrow, i in. long, the outer ones lanceolate, i in. long ; corollas 

 purple, I in, long, salver-shaped, shortly 5-cleft, scattered with 

 small glands outside ; lobes lanceolate, acute ; anthers with acute 

 tails at the base and acutely produced at the apex ; style exserted, 

 with two puberulous rather short tapering branches ; nectary 

 elevated, small, fleshy, surrounding the base of the style ; achenes 

 setulose, obscurely about 7-ribbed ; pappus about i in. long, 

 sordid, in one row with a few outer short setse ; the setse his- 

 pidulous ; receptacle somewhat foveolate. 



HuiLLA. — In rather dry wooded thickets between Monino and Eme ; 

 fl. and fr. April 18G0. No. 3333. At Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1850. 

 No. 3334. 



Nearly related to V. tmcrtoides Welw. 



21. V. pratensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect rather slender scabrid herb, 2| ft. high or more ; 

 stem simple below the inflorescence, hispidulous, sulcate-striate, 

 angular above, uniformly leafy ; leaves alternate, directed 

 upwards, lanceolate, rather obtuse, callus-tipped, rounded at the 



