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COMPOSITE FLORA OF AFRICA. 829 
0°5 cm. lat., basi aliquantulum amplexicaulia. Pedunculi 10°0- 
120 cm. long., dense araneosi; pedunculi proprii usque ad 1:0 
cm. long. Corymbus 2°0 cm. diam. attingens, sepe vero angustior. 
Involucri paullo ultra 0-4 em. long. phylla extima 0°3 em. interiora 
0-4 cm.long. Corolle florum fem. pilose ; harum tubus 0°25 em. 
et ligula vix 0-1 cm. long. Achenia 0°12 em. et pappus O'4 em. 
long. 
A very distinct species recognized by the indumentum and 
shape of the leaves, the small corymbs supported on their long 
peduncles, &c. In habit, and especially in the form and clothing 
of the leaves, it closely resembles Nidorella pedunculata, Oliver. 
MaRSsEA CELEBRIS, sp. nov.; caule ascendente sparsim ramoso 
hispidulo, foliis parvis sessilibus oblongis obtusis pinnatifidim 
lobatis piloso-pubescentibus, capitulis parvis in corymbis termin- 
alibus densis multicapitulatis dispositis multiflosculis flosculis 
perpaucis hermaphroditis, pedunculis propriis capitulis subequi- 
longis pubescentibus, involucri campanulati puberuli phyllis 
3-serlatis extimis brevioribus lanceolatis reliquis lanceolato- 
oblongis omnibus acutis et margine hyalinis, receptaculo 
crassiusculo alveolato alveolorum marginibus breviter productis, 
flosculorum fem. corollis omnino tubulosis glabris, acheniis 
glabris marginibus induratis faciebus uninervibus vel nervo 
orbis, pappi albi setis paucis uniseriatis. 
Hab. Mau, 8000 feet; G. F. Scott Elliot, no. 6907. 
Folia fere usque ad 3:0 cm. long. et circa 1:0 em. lat. Invo- 
lucri 0°42 em. long. circa O'4 cm. diam. phylla extima 0°3 cm. 
reiiqua 0-4 em. long. Flosculi hermaph. circa 5. Flosculorum 
fem. corolla 0°15 em. et stylus vix 0'4 cm. long. Acheuia 
immatura 0:075 cm. long. Pappi sete circa 14, 0°3 cm. long. 
To be compared with M. abyssinica (Conyza abyssinica, Sch. 
Bip.), from which it differs in respect of the slightly broader 
eglandular involucral leaves, female florets with slenderer glabrous 
corollas and longer styles, the different shape of the hermaphro- 
dite florets, and, judging from their immature condition, the 
smaller glabrous achenes. 
Psrapia, Jacq. 
P. incana, Oliver ¥ Hiern. 
British East Africa, Dadaro, 3700 feet ; Lord Dzlamere. 
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