534 Lxxi. compositjE. [Ve7-nonia 



39. V. temnolepis 0. Hoflfm., I.e., p. 11. 



Hdilla.— A herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with the habit of a Centaurea ; 

 rootstock woody, few-headed ; stems several, ascending-erect, leafy 

 below and with leaves at the divaricate divisions of the corymbose 

 apex ; leaves vertical ; capitula homogamous, many-flowered ; corollas 

 tubular, elongate-funnelshaped, rather deeply 5-cleft, pale wine-red ; 

 the lobes broadly linear rather obtuse and spreading, hooded-fleshy at 

 the apex ; anthers hastate ; filaments glabrous ; style relatively thick, 

 stout, sparingly or scarcely hispidulous and a little thickened below 

 the division ; the branches long, attenuate, flattish on the inner side, 

 hispidulous round the outer side ; achene compressed, densely setaceous- 

 pilose, with a callus at the base, truncate at the apex, the areola 

 usually excentric ; pappus rigid, rough, in 2 or 3 (?) rows of straight 

 pilose-setnlose setse more or less cohering at the base and a little 

 thickened towards the apex. On rough bushy hills between Nene and 

 Humpata ; a few specimens in fl. and young fr. April 1860. No. 3273. 



40. V. ulophyUa O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 13. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, suffruticose at the base, 

 with the habit of a Centaurea or rather of a Catananche ; stem strictly 

 erect ; appendages of the involucral scales rigid, white, scarious ; 

 corollas tubular, ventricose in the middle, blue or azure-bluish ; achenes 

 narrowed, ^ in. long ; setEe of the pappus paleaceous, biseriate, very 

 brittle. On rather dry declivities of Sobato de Eumba and de 

 Mussengue ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1856. No. 3279. In sunny bushy places 

 near Menha-lula ; fl. and fr. beginning of July 1855. No. 32796. A 

 herb, 2J to 4 ft. high, apparently annual ; stem thick, hard, strictly 

 erect ; leaves green above, pale-tawny and felted beneath ; capitula 

 resembling those of a Catananche, with whitish scales ; corollas pale- 

 blue. At Menha-lula, in Sobato de Mussengue ; fr. March 1855. 

 Coll. Carp. 682. 



Yar. Hoffmaimiana. 



V. guineensis, forma capitulis brevius pedunculatis, 0. Hoffm., 

 Lc, p. 12 ; non Benth. 



An erect, perennial, robust herb, with somewhat the habit of 

 a Carthamus, 1 to 2 ft. high or more; stem clothed with a 

 short pallid or somewhat tawny or ferruginous felt, terete below, 

 obtusely tetragonal above, branched towards the apex at the 

 inflorescence, leafy ; leaves alternate, directly upwards, obovate- 

 oblong or oblanceolate, rounded and slightly emarginate or sub- 

 apiculate at the apex, narrowed to or towards the sessile or 

 subsessile base, thinly sub-coriaceous, rigid, yellowish-green and 

 scabrid above, softly velvety and subrufous or paler beneath, 

 li^ to 4|. in. long by \ to \\ in. broad, crenate-serrate with obtuse 

 or rounded and sub-apiculate teeth except towards the base ; 

 capitula broadly campanulate. many-flowered, ^ to | in. in dia- 

 meter (exclusive of the corollas), mostly subsessile or on tomentose 

 pedicels ranging up to an inch long, arranged in terminal and 

 subterminal erect small pedunculate cymes, often forming a 

 compound terminal somewhat leafy cyme 2J to 5 in. in diameter, 

 or rarely solitary and terminal; bracts linear, tomentose; in- 

 volucral scales in about 6 rows, imbricate, linear or oblong, woolly 



