Vei-nonia] lxxi. composite. 525 



tapering, curved ; nectary cupuliform, minute ; young achenes 

 densely hairy, unequally trigonous, with sevei'al obscurely marked 

 ribs ; pappus straw-coloured, sub-biseriate, the outer setse short, 

 the inner ^ in. long, the setse hispidiilous ; receptacle areolate. 



HuiLLA. — In wooded situations amongst tall herbs near Oatumba, 

 sporadic ; not yet in full fl. April 1860. No. 3295. 



23. V. phyllodes Hiern, sp. n. 



A smooth herb, 2 ft. high, with the habit of a Carthamus, 

 pale yellowish -green, sufifruticose at the base ; stem terete and 

 glabrate below, sulcate, branched in the upper part, somewhat 

 cottony towards the apex, leafy throughout ; leaves alternate, 

 crowded, arranged after the manner of the phyllodes in the 

 leafless acacias, oval-oblong, rather obtuse at both ends, sub- 

 apiculate at the apex, sometimes 3-nerved at the subsessile base, 

 fleshy-coriaceous, unicolorous, pilose when young, glabrescent or 

 sometimes a Kttle pilose near the base beneath, 1^ to 2|^ in. long 

 by X to f in. broad, entire ; capitula broadly campanulate, f to 

 1 in. in diameter, singly terminating the branches or a iew close 

 together terminal and subterminal (or terminating abbreviated 

 subterminal branches), many-flowered ; involucres f to 1 in. long ; 

 the scales pauciseriate, sub-equally high, more or less cottony- 

 pilose on the exposed parts of the back ; the outer ones foliaceous, 

 lanceolate-oblong, the inner ones closely imbricate, sub-obtuse, 

 thickly coriaceous, glabrous and polished inside ; corollas white, 

 1^ in. long, narrowly tubular with a campanulate-oblong 5-cleft 

 often spreading dilatation in the upper part ; the lobes lanceolate, 

 narrowed to a thickened papillose tip ; anther-base obtuse, not 

 sagittate; the tube partly exserted ; style-branches exserted, 

 rather long, puberulous, spreading and incurving, pointed; 

 achenes (young) glabrous except the base, somewhat compressed, 

 obscurely ribbed ; pappus of a pale whitish fawn colour, 

 pluriseriate, subequal, setose ; setse closely approximated, silky, 

 very slender, microscopically barbellate ; receptacle pubescent. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In wooded thickets by hiJly places at the river 

 Cuanza near Sange, abundant ; fl. and young fr. 1 May 1857. No. 3993. 



This belongs to the section Hololepis of the genus, and amongst 

 the African species comes next to V. purpurea Schultz hip. 



24. V. Calulu Hiern, sp. n. 



Vernonia sp., Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 206 (1884). 



A herb, with the habit of a Serratula, 2 to 3 ft. high or in 

 shady places taller ; stem brittle, terete, striate, often purplish 

 and scabrid hispidulous or glabrate below, scabrid-pubescent and 

 somewhat fawn-coloured above, loosely branched or nearly simple, 

 uniformly leafy throughout ; leaves oval elliptical or obovate, 

 rather shortly narrowed or rounded and apiculate at the apex, 

 obliquely and often shortly narrowed to an obtuse or wedgeshaped 

 base, chartaceous, very rigid, scabrous with small rough raised 

 points and hispidulous or nearly glabrous on both faces, with 

 raised midrib veins and veinlets beneath, 1 to 6 in. long by ^ 



