Vernonial lxxi. composiTjE. 53!) 



a pale-violet colour. On grassy hills on the left bank of the river 

 Caringa ; fl. and Ir. June 1855. No. 3255. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A herb 2^ to 3^ ft. high or more, with whitish- 

 lilac flowers. In hilly places by the road towards Sobato de Mussengue. 

 fl. and fr. July 1855. No. 6722. A shrub of 6 to 8 ft. shaped like 

 a small tree, with spreading branches and flowers of a whitish-violet 

 colour. In the eastern Queta ; fl. and fr. July 1856. Native name 

 " N-dolo." No. 3256. An evergreen little shrub, 1 to 1^ ft. high, 

 densely CESspitose, with coriaceous shining leaves and whitish flowers. 

 On the highest ranges of Sobato de Quilombo ; fr. March 1855. Pro- 

 bably this species. Coll. Carp. 681. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In primitive woods a little tree 6 to 10 ft. 

 high with a straight slender trunk, or in secondary woods a shrub with 

 numerous stems ; bark grey, very bitter ; branches erect-spreading ; 

 branchlets patent ; capitula several-flowered, very densely corymbose ; 

 corollas from whitish to lilac, much liked by bees, though not very 

 fragrant. Between the presidium and Sansamanda ; fl. and fr. 

 beginning of June 1857. Native name sometimes " Molulu," or more 

 correctly " N-dolo." No. 3257. 



The name ' ' Molulu " is also applied to V. senegalensis, V. podocoma, 

 and V. auriculifera ; and the last is also called " N-dolo," 



48. V. podocoma Schultz Bip. ex Schweinf. & Aschers. in 

 Schweinf. M. ^thiop. p. 287 (1867) ; 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. iii. p. 296. 



Bumbo. — Flowers whitish-lilac. In willow-beds composed of Sahx, 

 Sapsaf Forsk. (Welw. No. 6332b), by streams near Ohao da Xella, 

 abundant ; fr., most of the flowers having fallen, Oct. 1859, No. 3263. 

 Flowers prettily violet-coloured ; (fl. and) fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3267. 



49. V. auriculifera Hiern, sp. n. 



A small tree, 8 to 20 ft. high or in secondary woods only a 

 shrub of 6 to 8 ft., but mostly with a single trunk, 1 to 3 in. 

 in diameter at the base, and a leafy branched head at its apex ; 

 branches spreading, sparse on the lower part of the plant, crowded 

 at the head, gradually shorter, pithy, glabrescent ; branchlets 

 hoary-tomentellous towards the apex ; leaves alternate, elliptical 

 or ovate-oval, somewhat acuminate or pointed at the apex, wedge- 

 shaped or nearly rounded or reniform-auriculate at the base, 

 membranous (mostly destroyed by insects), the younger ones 

 more or less tomentose especially beneath, the adult ones nearly 

 glabrate, ranging up to 15 in. long by 6 in. broad, denticulate ; 

 the teeth tipped with the continuations of ramifications of the 

 venation ; midrib very prominent on the under face ; lateral 

 veins about 12 to 15 on each side, spreading at a wide angle ; 

 petioles ranging up to 2 in., somewhat dilated and clasping at the 

 base, with two deciduous axillary horseshoe-shaped reniform 

 stipular auricles 3 to g in. long; flowers solitary in each involucre, 

 whitish-lilac ; involucre oblong, | in. long, sessile or subsessile, 

 densely and sub-umbellately crowded on the ultimate branches 

 of ample terminal corymbs ; bracteoles very small, hairy ; scales 

 of the involucre imbricate often ciliolate, the outer ones shorter 

 puberulous and obtuse, the inner ones elongated acuminate or 

 apicxTlate subglabrous almost as long as the flower prettily 



