Vemonia] lxxi. composite. 527 



long ; the scales multiseriate, more or less lanceolate, sub-acute, 

 apiculate, puberulous or thinly pubescent on the back, scabrid- 

 ciliolate on the margin, glabrous inside, adpressed or scarcely 

 spreading, straw-coloured at the back except the dark-purplish 

 tips ; the outermost very short, subulate-lanceolate ; the inner 

 successively longer ; the innermost oblong-lanceolate, |- in. long ; 

 corollas purple, about f in. long (when the lobes are extended), 

 narrowly tubular, not much dilated at the top of the tube, 

 membranous, scattered outside with minute glands, 5-lobed ; the 

 lobes lanceolate-oblong, ^ in. long, acute ; anthers with long 

 lanceolate tails at their base each cohering with one of an 

 adjacent anther ; filaments red ; style-branches long, exserted, 

 puberulous, tapering, curved ; achenes \ in. long, with about 10 

 slender ribs, nearly glabrous or with some short setulse between 

 the ribs ; pappus rufous, f in. long, pluriseriate, setose ; the setse 

 setulose almost plumose, the outer setae short. 



HuiLLA. — In hilly places, amongst tall bushes, between Nene and 

 Humpata ; also at Ferrao da Sola ; fl. and fr. Jan.' 1860. No. 3282. 

 At the herbaceous outskirts of forests near Catumba ; fl. and young 

 fr. end of March 1860. No. 3283. 



Var. ? scabrior. Stem somewhat muriculate with scattered 

 hard rough raised points ; leaves very scabrous especially above. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Flowers purple. In wooded pastures between 

 Lombe and Quibinda ; only one specimen, fl. and young fr. March 

 1867. No. 3299. 



26. V. earnea Hiern, sp. n. 



A very scabrous, perennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; rootstock 

 thick, woody ; stems several, strictly erect, simple subterete and 

 purplish below, branched somewhat angular and pallid above, 

 hispidulous-scabrid, striate, uniformly leafy throughout ; leaves 

 oval or somewhat obovate, broadly pointed and minutely apiculate 

 at the apex, more or less narrowed to a sessile or subsessile 

 slightly clasping base, thinly and rigidly coriaceous, very scabrid 

 on both faces with rough points and stiff short hairs on the veins 

 and margin, sharply toothed, 1 to 6 in. long by |^ to 3 in. broad, 

 yellowish-green above, rather paler beneath ; venation slender ; 

 capitula comparatively few, f to 1 in. in diameter, many-flowered, 

 hemispherical-globose, on hispidulous-scabrid unequal bracteate 

 pedicels ranging up to 4 in. long in a lax terminal corymbose or 

 oblong cyme 3 to 6 in. in diameter ; bracts sublinear ; involucral 

 scales multiseriate, linear, glabrous or nearly so, yellowish-green 

 outside on the upper half, pale straw-coloured below, subobtuse, 

 finely spinulose-serrulate on the margin, loosely imbricate, erect 

 or ascending ; the innermost the shortest but not so short as in 

 V. huillensis and V. Calulu ; corollas violet-purple or azure-blue, 

 f in. long when extended, narrowly tubular, scarcely or shortly 

 widened at the top of the tube, 5-cleft about halfway down, 

 scattered outside with small glands ; the lobes linear, acute ; 

 anther-tube exserted except the base, flesh-coloured, sagittate- 



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