Vernonia] Lxxi. coMPosiTiE. 519 



3 ft. high, flowers of a reddish-violet colour. In wooded situations 

 near Menha-Lula ; fl. and fr. June 1856. No. 3320. 



5. V. Welwitschii 0. Hoffm. in Bol. See. Brot. x. p. 170 (1893). 

 MossAMEDES. — Flowers bright-purple. In sandy thickets at the 



banks of the river Maiombo ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3363. 



6. V. rhodophylla 0. Hoffm., I.e., xiii. p. 19. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers purple. In rather elevated bushy mountainous 

 places in Serra (Morro)de LopoUo, formerly pastures ; fl. and fr. April 

 and May 1860. No. 3340. 



7. V. daphnifolia 0. Hoffm., I.e., p. 18. 



HuiLLA. — A csespitose herb ; rootstock thick, woody, many-headed, 

 perennial ; flowers violet-purplish. In fairly dry sandy-clayey 

 thickets near LopoUo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. beginning Dec. 1859. 

 No. 3344. 



8. V. lappoides O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 19. 



PuNGO AxDOXGO. — A perennial erect herb, with membranous leaves 

 and purple corollas. In rocky thickets within the preesidium, not 

 abundant ; fl. and fr. middle of Feb. 1857. No. 3394. 



9. V. Perrottettii Schultz. Bip. ex Walp. Report, ii. p. 947 

 (1843) ; O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 272 {Perrottetii). 



Webhia serratuloides DC.'Prodr. v. p. 72 (1836). 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — An annual, strictly erect herb, with palHd- 

 purple flowers. Between Lombe and Candumba, in places with 

 scanty herbage, rather rare, but growing in masses ; fl. end of March 

 1857. No. 3365. 



10. V. ambigua Kotschy & Peyr. PI. Tinn. p. 35. t. 17 B (1867); 

 O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 272. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual, erect, much branched herb, 4 to 5 in. 

 high, with purple or purplish corollas. In sandy thickets near 

 Sansamanda, not far from the banks of the river Ouanza, sparingly ; 

 fl. beginning of April 1857. Also in sandy bushy places near Mopopo, 

 very rare ; fl. and fr. 30 April 1857. No. 3304. 



11. V. Petersii 0. & H. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 

 p. 90 (1873) and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 273. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers purple. In sandy thickets near LopoUo ; fl. and 

 fr. March and April 1860. No. 3301. In neglected fields on a sandy 

 soil near LopoUo ; fl. and fr. end of May 1860. No. 3302. In 

 neglected fields near Erne ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3303. 



MosSAMEDEs. — An annual erect herb, with violet-purple flowers. 

 In gravelly places at the banks of the river Bero, rather rare ; fl. and 

 fr. July 1869. No. 3305. 



12. V. Poskeana Vatke & Hildebrandt in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 

 XXV. p. 324 (1875) ; 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 274. 



Crystallopollen angustifoliimi Steetz in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. 

 p. 366 (1863). 



a. Vulgaris Steetz, I.e. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual erect herb, growing in vast abundance 

 and in dense masses, colouring violet the moist meadows between 



