Vernonia] lxxi. composiTjB. 537 



rather tomentose with pallid or whitish soft hairs often obsoletely 

 so and minutely pitted beneath ; 2 to 4^ in. long by ^ to 1 in. 

 broad (the lower ones not seen), denticulate with small apiculate 

 teeth; capitula hemispherical-globular, many-flowered, | to IJ in. 

 in diameter, on puberulous or scaberulous bracteate peduncles 

 of about an inch long singly terminating the ultimate branches 

 of the stem and forming together a leafy rather lax terminal 

 subcorymbose cyme or a few together on unequal pedicels ; bracts 

 subhnear, ac\ite, several near together and near the base of the 

 capitulum and supplementing the involucral scales, ^ to i in. long, 

 scaberulous or puberulous ; involucral scales pluriseriate, lanceolate 

 oblong or nearly oblong or linear, pointed at the apex, puberulous 

 or nearly glabrous outside, glabrous and shining inside, adpressed 

 lower part rigid straw-coloured, upper part appendicular thinner 

 purplish f to f in. long ; the outer ones the shortest and nearly 

 continuous with the upper bracts of the peduncle or pedicel ; 

 corollas violet-coloured or bluish-purple, about an inch long when 

 extended, scattered with minute glands outside, lower part of the 

 tube very slender, § in. long, rather abruptly widened at the 

 apex into the 5-cleft spreading upper part ; the lobes lanceolate, 

 subacute ; anther-tube sagittate at base, with comparatively short 

 tails ; apical appendages ovate ; style-branches puberulous, taper- 

 ing, spreading and incurved, comparatively short ; achenes ^ in. 

 long, shortly and densely hispid with short upward pallid hairs 

 arranged in about 8 longitudinal rows ; pappus about i in. long 

 or a little longer, pluriseriate, setose ; the setse somewhat 

 flattened, straw-coloured, ciliolate-barbellate, outer rows the 

 shorter. 



HuiLLA. — In wooded meadows by the lake of Ivantaia ; fl. and fr. 

 Feb. 1860. No. 3276. Sporadic ; fl. and young fr. beginning of 

 March 1860. A form with smaller heads and narrower leaves tomen- 

 tose beneath. Perhaps a distinct species. No. 3376&. 



Nearly related to V. mossambiquensis O. & H. 



45. V. glaberrima Welw. ex 0. HofTm. p. 15. 



GOLUNSO Alto. — An elegant herb ; rootstock perennial, woody ; 

 sterna ascending, densely csespitose ; flowers violet-coloured. On the 

 more elevated declivities of the mountains of Sobato de Bumba ; 

 fl. and fr. Oct. 1855. No. 3327- A perennial herb ; rootstock 

 woody, many-headed ; stems numerous, erect or ascending, acutely 

 angular ; branchlets erect, thin ; leaves coriaceous, rather rigid, rather 

 glossy on both faces ; capitula homogamous ; flowers lilac ; corolla 

 tubular, whitish-rosy, ventricose, 6-cleft at the mouth, with connivent 

 lobes ; the tube of the anthers deep-lilac, included ; style bifid or 

 trifid, with the lobes exserted and arched. On elevated declivities of 

 the mountains of the central Queta ; fl. and fr. beginning of Sept. 

 1856. No. 3328. In bushy hilly places in Sobato de Bumba after the 

 burnings (Queimadas) ; fr. No. 3329. 



46. V. eonferta Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 427 (1849) ; 0. 

 & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 294; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 206. 



V. arborea Welw. ex O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 172 (1893). 



