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274. Vernonia colorata Drake del Caslillo in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 France, XLYl. 230 (Févr. 1900). — Ballanghar in Upper Baddibu district; 

 and Seen along botli banks of the Gambia (Lesler, n. 73 N). Common 

 name, Bitters tree. The leaves are chewed for their astringent pro- 

 perties. 



Syn, — Etipatorium coloratnm W. herb. n. lol45, etSp. Plant. Ilf. 1768 

 (1800); Baccharis Seuegalensis Pers. ex Juss. herb. (1807); Conyza ruU- 

 lans Poiret (1811); Vernonia Seuegalensis Less. (1829). 



275. Vernonia Nigritiana Oliver & Hiern. — Torro, on Suarra 

 Kunda Creek, in Jokadu district (Lester, n. 55 N, n. 60 N). Mandingo 

 name « Jubu janiba » Roots are pounded and boiled, and taken as a purga- 

 tive. In Lester's spécimens, the stem is branched, and the leaves elUptic 

 and broadly pointed. On an unmutilaled pappus of medium size Icounled 

 114 setee, of which the outer shorler ones formed about V* of the 

 number. 



276. Vernonia Perottetii Schultz Bip. — Very common in the 

 fields. FÏA. m. 272; (Ingram, Whitfield). Torro (Lester, n. 37 N). Karn- 

 gour (Lester, n. 57 Nj. 



277. Vernonia Senegalensis Desf. (1829). — Very common 

 everywhere in the fields. Bakkendik in Upper Niumi district (Lester, 

 n. 26 N). Ballanghar in Upper Baddibu district (Lester, n. 74 N, — but 

 spécimen not kept). V. Senegalensis Less. was described in the same year 

 {see above under n. 274). In Lester's n. 26 the leaves are obtuse. Gambia 

 (Ingram). 



Syn. — V. pauciflora Less. (1829); non Poiret (1817). 



278. Gonyza Senegalensis W. (1800). — (G. Don 2»«) : et ex 

 Hooker, Niger FI. 432: «ad Gambiam recentius Don » ex Cand. 



279. Blumea lacera Cand. — Ballanghar in Upper Baddibu district 

 (Lester, n. 75 N). Syn. — Conyza lacera Burm. f. (1768). 



280. Sphseranthus hirtus W. — A common weed in the rice- 

 fieldsduriiig the dry season. Lower Salum district (Ozanne, n. VI). Upper 

 Niumi district (Lester, n. 2 N). Gunjour in South Kommbo district (Lester, 

 n. 8 S). Native names, « Cummu-cummu » and «Lookrij«. Is said to 

 relieve rheumalic pains of the body and lirabs, and afierwards induce 

 sieep. if the leaves are thickly strewn on the bed on which the patient 

 is laid. 



281. Inula indica L. var. auriculata Williams. — «A plant, in 

 « every respect similar to Vicoa Indica DC, but without i-ays, which 

 « would bring it nearer to Varthemia, is in the Hookerian Herbarium, 

 • gathered on the Gambia by Captain Boteler» (Hook., Niger FI. 432). 

 Common at i3akkendik in Upper Niumi district (Lester, n. 21 N). Lester's 

 spécimen was not kept, which is particularly unfortunate, as Ihis plant 

 lias not been recorded from any part of Africa outside the colony of 

 Gambia. On the Asialic continent it is limited to India. Ceylon, and Burma. 

 Boleler's spécimen is the only African example in Herb. Kew. It is to be 

 lioped that the otiier institutions to which Lester's duplica tes were distri- 

 buled did not perpetrale the same pièce of vandalism. It may be asked 



