172 BOTANY OF THE UGANDA BOUNDARY COMMISSION. 
Hab, Island of Buvüma, Lake Victoria Nyanza. Fl. March, 
657. 
Folia (petiolo excl.) modice 5:0-6:0 em. long., et 4*0 em. 
lat. (interdum vero 3:5-4:0 x 25-30 ¢m.), basi palmi- 
nervia; petioli 1:5-2:0 em. long.; auricule summum 
05x10 em., utrinque sparsim pubescentes. Corymbus 
circa 7*0 em. long. et diam.; hujus bractew infimæ folia 
mentientes, reliquie parve et in calyculi phylla transeuntes. 
Calyeuli phylla 0*4 cm. long. Capitula pansa 1:3 em. 
long. et 0'8 em. diam. Involueri phylla 1:0 cm., corolle 
flavo-brunnescentes 1'1 cm., styli ramorum appendices 
fere 072 cm., achænia 0:3 cm., pappus 0:85 em. long. 
Gynura scandens, O. Hotim., has differently shaped leaves 
without auricles, fewer and shorter involucral leaves, narrower 
and fewer flosculed heads, &c. The plant here described is also 
near that named by me Crassocephalum ruwenzoriense, but its 
pubescence, auricled leaves, and longer involueres with more 
numerous and narrower leaves, are among its distinguishing 
points, 
EMILIA DEBILIS, sp. nov. 
E. annua, tenera, caule gracili parum ramoso piloso-pubescente 
cito piloso, foliis perpaucis sessilibus anguste oblanceolato- 
oblongis utrinque obtusis erassiuseulis albo-piloso-puber- 
ulis, capitulis perpaucis ramulos solitatim coronantibus 
longissime — pedunculatis piloso- pubescentibus parvis 
o - flosculosis, involucri cylindriei phyllis 8 basi con- 
junetis linearibus obtusis extus piloso-puberulis, corollis 
breviter exsertis, styli ramis appendiee brevi subulata 
glabra coronatis, acheeniis cylindricis 10-costatis costis vel 
intervallis albo-pilosulis glabrisve, pappi setis glabris albis. 
Hab. Ruchigga. FI. November, 444. 
Planta adusque 40:0 em. alt. Folia solemniter 2:5-3:5 em. 
long. O'7 cm. lat., margine paullulum revoluta, subtus 
pallida, costule fere evanid:. Pedunculi adusque 15:0 
cm. long., bracteis O'5-1'5 cm. long. rarissimis praditi. 
Involueri phylla O8 em. long. Corolle flave, 0:6 em. 
long., lobi Ol em. Styli rami vix O'l em. long., horum 
appendices 0'02 cm. Achenia 0:22 cm., pappi setze 075-077 
ein. long. 
Known by the indumentum, the small and narrow sessile 
leaves, the long peduncles, and the slender subulate appendages 
to the style-arms. 
