Vemonia] lxxi. composiTjE. 533 



elongated, pilose along the inner face ; achenes turbinate, densely 

 silvery-piloSe ; pappus pluriseriate, white, setose. Habit of some 

 robust Elephantopvs. In the rather dry wooded pastures of the 

 Monino, abundant ; fl. and fr. end of Feb. 1860. Collected at the 

 war-time. No. 4006. 



35. V. lampropappa 0. Hoffm., I.e., p. 14. 

 PuNGO Andongo.— No notes. Fl. No. 3291. 



This and the two next species constitute a new section of the genus 

 characterized by the segments of the pappus being more or less flattened 

 and subpaleaoeous instead of setiform and called Lampropappus by 

 0. Hoffmann, I.e. 



36. V. eremanthifolia O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 15. 



HuiLLA. — At the outskirts of Panda forests (of. Berlinia and 

 Brachystegia) between Erne and Lopollo ; not yet in open fl. Feb. 1860. 

 No. 3292. Flowers purple in the cleared thickets near Nene, beginning 

 of June 1860 ; or pale-blue in the drier bushy places near Humpata, 

 where it occurred sparingly and a few flower-heads in April 1860 ; fl. 

 and fr. No. 3293. 



37. V. Britteniana Hiem, sp. n. 



A rigid, rather slender, subtomentose, erect, apparently shrubby 

 herb ; stem sulcate-striate, terete, leafy, purplish and subglabrate 

 below, clothed above with a very short whitish felt ; leaves 

 alternate, oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse and subapiculate at the 

 apex, gradually narrowed to a sessile base, denticulate or sub- 

 repand, yellowish-green and minutely scabrid above, whitish- 

 tomentellous with a very short felt and black-punctulate beneath, 

 1 to 3^ in. long by ^ to |- in. broad ; capitula campanulate-oblong, 

 \ in. in diameter, sessile or subsessile, in clusters a few together 

 arranged in a compound terminal rather lax corymbose or sub- 

 hemispherical cyme about 6 in. in diameter; involucral scales 

 pluriseriate, obtuse or apioulate, the outer ones shortly woolly ; 

 the inner ones longer, oblong, ranging up to f in. long, with a 

 short scarious rounded subglabrous apical appendage ; corollas 

 violet-coloured, ^ in. long ; tube rather abruptly widened above 

 the pappus, shortly 5-lobed ; lobes lanceolate ; anthers exserted, 

 acutely produced at the base into long tails, shortly produced at 

 the apex ; style-branches exserted, puberulous, tapering, curved ; 

 achenes broadly oblong, somewhat compressed, 10-ribbed, shortly 

 hispid ; pappus sub-biseriate, ^ in. long, rather tawny, setae 

 rather compressed, minutely setulose ; receptacle nearly flat, 

 areolate. 



HuiLLA. — In wooded places amidst shrubs between Erne and the lake 

 of Ivantala, rare ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3281. 



Nearly related to V. cardiolepis 0. Hoffm., but more slender, narrower 

 in its leaves and flower-heads, and rather woolly involucral scales. 



38. V. cardiolepis O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 12. 



PuNGO Andongo.— An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with azure-bluish 

 flowers. In the Panda forests of Oandumba near Condo, abundant ; 

 fl. and young fr. beginning of March 1867. No. 3280. 



