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MR. KASSNER’S BRITISH EAST AFRICAN PLANTS.—II. 
By Spencer Moorr, F.L.S. 
(Continued from Journ. Bot. 1902, p. 346.) 
Compositz.—II. 
Vernonia Tas Sig pm 8. Moore. Golunko. No. 865. 
Vernonia (§ Hototeris) rigorata Caule erecto 
rigorata, sp. nov ule 
sursum ties penitus folioso breviter ‘setuloso-scabrido in pees 
tudinem suleato, foliis parvis subsessilibus oblongis mucronatis 
capitulis mediocrib nilateralibus paucicapitulatis 
folia excedentibus dispositis multiflosculosis is alibus 
reliquis similibus nisi minori m sectionis involucratis, 
involucri campanulati pluri- (circa 9-)serialis phyllis rigidis extimis 
brevibus lineari-subulatis reliquis gradatim longioribus_lineari- 
lanceolatis rigidiuscule spinoso-acuminatis intimis quam interiora 
angustioribus omn ives leviter araneosis scabridis, flosculis invo- 
lucrum superantibus, acheniis anguste eylindrics basi callosis 
10-costatis inter costas appresse sericeis, pappi 2-seriati setis exte- 
rioribus abbreviatis interioribus sordide albis seabrinseulis 
Hab. Simba. No. 724. 
Folia 1°5-4°5 cm. long., 0°7-1:2 cm. lat., supra aliquantulum 
nitentia. Corymbus adusque 7:0 cm. long. et lat. Pedunculi 
proprii sepissime 1-0-3:0 cm. long., raribracteati. Folia floralia 
involucrantia 0°7-1:2 em. long. Involucrum 15 em. long.; phylla 
intermedia circa 0-8-1:0 cm., intima 1°4 cm. long., hee circa 0-1 
em. illa 0:18 em. long., omnia sursum brunnea marginibus lute- 
scenti-viridibus. Corolle tubus inferne maxime attenuatus, rari- 
papillosus, 0-8-1: a em. long.; lobi 0°4cm. long. Achznia 0-4 em., 
pappus 0: 8 em. long. 
Allied to V. purpurea Sch. Bip., but with quite different leaves 
and flower-heads. 
¥, stenolepss Oliv. Muku. No. 897. ’ 
Vernonia (§ Srrozocatyx) Hindei, sp. nov. Planta glabra 
caule erecto ramoso folioso angulato necnon striato, foliis parvis 
subsessilibus oblongis obtuse acutis mucronulatisve basi obtusis vel 
aliquantulum rotundatis ma margine integris distanterve denticulatis 
sordide oalbis vl substramineis. 
ribus abbreviatis somnibas 8 bi Machakos; Dr. S. L. ae in 
Hab. 
Herb. Mus. Brit.) 
