COMPOSITE FLORA OF AFRICA. 31k 
ERLANGEA CALYCINA, Sp. noy.; caule erecto angulato sursum 
folioso piloso-pubescente, foliis alternis sessilibus lanceolato- 
oblongis acutis vel obtusis serrulatis undulatisve sericeo-villosis 
demum pubescentibus, pedunculis quam folia brevioribus mono- 
cephalis pubescentibus, capitulis pro genere magnis multi- 
flosculosis flosculis involucrum haud excedentibus, involucri 
sericel 8-4-seriatis phyllis magnis foliaceis lanceolatis vel 
oblanceolatis acutis acuminatisve, acheniis turbinato-cylindricis 
5-costatis glabris, pappi setis paucis inter se subsequilongis 
achenio brevioribus barbellatis. 
Hab. British East Africa, Malewa River, 1893; Dr. J. W. 
Gregory. Machakos; G. #. Scott Elliot, nos. 6381, 6418, 6538. 
Caulis usque ad 25:0 cm. alt., ramulos paucos erectos sericeos 
emittens. Folia modica 4°5-5:0 em. x 1:0-1'2 cm., approximata, 
firme membranacea. Pedunculi 3°0-3°5 cm. long., sat validi. 
Involucri phylla omnia 1°5-2°0 em. long. et 0:3-0°5 cm. lat. 
Corolla 0°7 cm. long., tubo dimidio inferiore attenuato, juxta 
medium subito dilatato, pilis brevissimis glandulosis obsito. 
Achenia paullo ultra 0-2 em. long., pallida. Pappi sete circa 
0°13 em. long. 
The silky leaves, large solitary capitula, and foliaceous involucre 
are the chief peculiarities of this remarkable species. 
The genus Erlangea was proposed in 1853 by Schultz Bipon- 
tinus for the reception of a plant (£. plumosa, Sch. Bip.) 
collected by E. Jardin in the Gaboon region. The type was 
examined by Mr. Bentham when working at the Composite for 
the « Genera Plantarum,’ and by Professor Oliver and Mr. Hiern 
in the course of their joint study of African Composite for the 
‘Flora of Tropical Africa.’ A short time before this, Professor 
Oliver had described in the ‘Icones Plantarum’ (tab. 1133) the 
remarkable plant called by him Bothriocline Schimperi, the chief 
points about which were its possession of opposite leaves and 
extremely small achenes crowned with a caducous pappus con- 
sisting of a very few short scabrous sete. The same achenes 
and pappus were known to be possessed by three other plants 
referred in the ‘ Flora of Tropical Africa’ to Vernonia, viz., V. 
misera, Oliver & Hiern, V. Moramballe, Oliver & Hiern, and 
Vz marginata, Oliver & Hiern. Later on, Dr. Hoffmann, 
disregarding the opposition of the leaves as a valid generic 
character for Bothriocline—and, I think correctly, remembering 
