Vemoiiia] lxxi. coMPOsiTiE. 531 



ing with minute sessile glands, entire, pointed, sessile, j to 1 in. 

 long; capitula homogamous, many -flowered, campanulate-hemi- 

 spherical, solitary, terminating the stems, erect ; involucral scales 

 triseriate, nearly glabrate or puberulous in parts, the outer ones 

 subfohaceous narrow linear not contiguous, the middle ones 

 scarious-subcoriaceous broader subacute or broadly pointed usually 

 with a patch of almost obsolete felt near the apex, the inner ones 

 longest obtuse somewhat crisp and with a red patch about the 

 apex ; corollas violet-purple or deep-violet, nearly glabrous ; the 

 tube elongated, narrow, abruptly dUated into an urceolate- 

 campanulate 5-cleft limb; the lobes narrow, thinly glandular 

 outside ; anthers included, sagittate scarcely caudate at the base, 

 furnished at the apex with a straight lanceolate rather obtuse 

 appendage ; filaments nearly glabrous ; style suboylindrical, 

 glabrous from the base to the middle, thence towards the apex 

 plainly dilated and as well as the elongated exserted branches 

 densely pubescent ; achenes cylindrical-obpyramidal, densely and 

 finely pilose, 10-ribbed, more densely pilose along the ribs and 

 glandular between them ; basal callus very short, suboblique ; 

 apical areola broad nearly flat furnished in the centre with a 

 mucroniform or thinly conical nectary; pappus biseriate, rigid, 

 straw-coloured ; the setae of the inner row exceeding the corolla- 

 tube, thick, densely hispid, very brittle, caducous ; those of the 

 outer row half as long, hispidulous, more acute and persisting 

 longer ; receptacle flat, marked with non-confluent areolee. 



HuiLLA. — On rather dry sparingly bushy hills near Lopollo, at an 

 elevation of 5000 ft. ; rather rare and seen nowhere else ; fl. and fr. 

 Nov. 1859. No. 3988. 



31. V. Maeroeyanus O. Hoflfm. in Henr. Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 20 

 (1896). 



Maeroeyanus Welw. ex 0. Hoffm., I.e., p. 21, and in Herb. 



HuiLLA. — A herb, with a woody perennial several-headed rootstock, 

 stemless or the 2- to 3-headed stem scapiform ;-capitula broad, 

 homogamous ; involucral scales in 3 or 4 rows, broadly lanceolate, 

 imbricate, rather lax, ciliate on the margin with slender short very 

 dense prickles, the inner scales longer than the outer ; corolla deep- 

 blue, deeply 5-cleft ; the tube very long, filiform ; the lobes narrow, 

 bearded at the apex with a crest of short hairs, subcucullate ; anthers 

 acutely appendaged at the apex, with longer ciliate-fimbriate or 

 occasionally lacerated appendages at the base ; style somewhat dilated 

 below its division into branches and then hispidulous, with the 

 branches very long rather flat inside and puberulous-hispidulous 

 round the outside ; achenes obcuncate, narrowed at the base, truncate 

 at the apex, with several ribs, densely hispid all round (or very nearly 

 glabrous) ; pappus in several rows ; the setae rigid, hispidulous, per- 

 sisting a long time. On the wooded sunny declivities of hilly pastures 

 near Catumba and towards Ohay, not at all abundant ; fl. and nearly 

 ripe fr. Jan. 1860. No. 3883. Flowers blue. In the hilly pastures 

 of Catumba, very rare because often died down ; fl. and young f r. 

 Jan. 1860. No. 3884. In pastures with low bushes on the right bank 

 of the river of Lopollo ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3885. 



