524 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Vernonia 



subsessile base, green on both faces, rather paler beneath, 

 membranous, rigid, scabrid, not pubescent, marked with minute 

 impressed peHucid points, 1 to 2^ in. long by i to y in. broad ; 

 margin narrowly revolute, entire or i-ough with a few short 

 prickles ; inter nodes shorter than the leaves ; capitula cam- 

 panulate-hemispherical, i to ^ in. in diameter, several-flowered, 

 subsessile on the branches of the cyme or on scabrid angular 

 rather slender rigid pedicels ranging up to an inch long, arranged 

 in a compovmd bracteate (or somewhat leafy) terminal corymbose 

 panicle about 4 in. in diameter ; bracts like the leaves but 

 smaller ; involucral scales pluriseriate oblong, oblanceolate or 

 linear, obtuse, somewhat pale-cottony outside, unequal, ranging 

 up to i in. long, more or less straw-coloured below, dark or 

 purplish and often quasi-appendicular towards the apex, the 

 lower ones often subapiculate ; corollas purple, rather more 

 than i in. long, narrowly tubular, gradually and not much 

 widened upwards, with 5 linear-lanceolate sub-acute lobes; 

 anther-tube acutely sagittate at the base and with lanceolate 

 appendages at the apex ; style-branches puberulous, tapering, 

 shortly cxserted at the apex ; achenes ob-pyramidal, Jj in. long, 

 about 6-ribbed, scattered with small glands and short hairs ; 

 pappus slightly straw-coloured, biseriate ; the outer setse short, 

 the inner ^ in. long, nearly smooth. 



Huii.LA. — In the wooded meadows (varzeas) of Catumba towards 

 Hay ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3364. 



22. V. catumbensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An undershrub, 4 ft. high or more ; stem densely leafy below, 

 divaricately branched above ; branches elongated, purple, sulcate- 

 striate, terete, somewhat pubescent with whitish curly hairs ; 

 leaves oblong, more or less obtuse at both ends, subapiculate at 

 the apex, rounded at the sessile or subsessile base, thinly sub- 

 coriaceous, yellowish-green, paler beneath, somewhat pubescent 

 sometimes obsoletely so on both faces especially beneath by side 

 of or along the midrib and principal veins, denticulate repand or 

 gubentire, I^ to 4f in. long by | to 1^ in. broad; lateral veins 

 not conspicuous ; capitula campanulate, somewhat turbinate, 

 ■} in. in diameter, mostly sessile and unilateral on the branches 

 of the cyme, some on somewhat woolly pedicels ranging up to f in. 

 long, arranged in rather open terminal and axillary corymbose 

 or paniculate cymes ; bracts like the leaves but smaller ; in- 

 volucral scales more or less woolly outside, pluriseriate, obtuse, 

 minutely apiculate, with scarious margins and purple tips, thick 

 and tough in other parts, the outermost ones very short, the 

 inner continually longer, the innermost lanceolate-oblong ^ in. 

 long, persistent ; flowers purple, about 18 together in a capitulum ; 

 corollas § in. long, gradually widened above the middle, 5-cleft ; 

 the lobes lanceolate-oblong, cohering about the middle, sub- 

 obtuse ; anthers obtusely tailed at the base, with lanceolate 

 appendages at the apex ; style-branches exserted, hispidulous. 



