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tooth shortly and broadly ovate with a small abrupt point, 
smooth not reticulate or ciliate ; the other teeth mostly unde- 
veloped except the two terminating- at top the 2 very strong 
si phonal pale ribs (barren cells) in front. 
4. V. BRACTEATA Lowe. 
St. rather tall and stout not bushy fork-branched upwards, de- 
flexedly puberulous at the angles ; corymbs small scarcely more 
than 2-3-forked with a pair of long ligulate spreading leafy hr. at 
each fork as long as or longer than the slender filiform retro- 
puberulous branches and ciliato-connate at the base ; 1. spa- 
thulate or oblong-spathulate entire softly subciliate-pubescent 
downwards, the upper or br. sublaciniately or strongly but re- 
motely and irregularly inciso-toothed ; cymes small conspicu- 
ouslg hracteate , fl. -bracts longer than the fr. or jl. smooth mostly 
not ciliate or serrulate entire linear-lanceolate leafy loosely 
erecto-patent ; fr. exactly as in V. puherula DC. but with the 
crown a little more developed and acute. — Herb. ann. Mad. 
reg. 2, rrr. P‘° da Cruz in cultivated ground about the house 
and Yam-beds above it at the Sitio do Barreiro, sparingly. 
Apr., May. — Taller and larger than the preceding sp. with 
robust st. 12-18 in. high simple and not usually branched from 
the base, fork-branched upwards only, not bushy, of a pale 
gr., leafy, with conspicuous numerous long erecto-patent br. con- 
nate in pairs at the forks of the corymb and cymes, turning 
like the fl.-br. waxy-yellowish in drying and giving the inflo- 
rescence in the dried pi. something of the look of a Euphorbia. 
St. subpubescent on the ribs or angles ; edges and midribs of 
the 1. beneath minutely ciliato-pubescent ; br. ciliate at the 
base only. Branches of corymb slender subelongate as in V. 
Morisoni DC., the ultimate divisions not stiffly divaricate short 
thickened and congested as in V. puherula DC. Upper 1. or 
br. almost laciniate-tootlied. Fl. w. or very pale lilac. Fl.-br. 
without or with very narrow membranous edges, mostly quite 
entire, rarely a little serrulato-ciliate towards the tips. Fr. not 
fully mature in spec., but differing neither in size nor any other 
essential point from that of V. puherula DC. 
With the fr. almost exactly of V. puherula DC., this pi. has 
the taller habit and lax slender-branched corymbs or cymes of 
V. Morisoni DC., differing remarkably from both in its copious 
long leafy br. It may very possibly prove to be merely a large 
luxuriant drawn- up state or early stage of V. puherula DC. 
But at present without further study it can neither be reduced 
to that nor any other sp. From V. microcarpa Lois, it differs 
prima facie in its shortly liispidulous fr. not “ convert de poils 
