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serted on a common paleaceous receptacle. Heads involucrate with 
imbricating scales shorter than the pales of the receptacle. Involucel 
4.sided. 
A genus of several species, occurring chiefly in the Mediterranean region and at 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
Stem elongated, glabrous. Leaves quite entire or with entire 
ordentatelobes . . . . 1 . 1. 1 ee ee ee OL CG. centauroides. 
Stem obsolete or very abbreviated. Scape hispidulous above. 
Leaves crenate 2. C. acaulis, 
1. C. centauroides, Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. p. 49 (1818). 
Erect perennial, 1-5 ft. high; branches elongate, glabrous at least 
above, shining, angular. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, usually 
narrowed to an obtuse apex, simple trifid or pinnatifid, 3-15 in. long, 
lobes linear spreading, dentate or quite entire, the upper ones sessile, 
the radical ones petiolate undivided. Heads depresso-globose, 3-1 in. 
in diameter, few, on long naked glabrous peduncles; scales of the 
involucre oval, obtuse, pubescent and ciliate ; scales of the receptacle 
longer, less obtuse. Involucel densely hirsute, sulcate inside, crowned 
with 4 erect linear-oblong teeth. Calyx-limb patelliform, hairy inside, 
ciliate. Corolla funnel-shaped, villous on both sides. Stamens inserted 
at about the middle of the corolla.—DC. Prodr. iv. p. 648. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
? Mozamb. Distr. Between Mambane and Sotshi, alt. 4500 ft. (a poor speci- 
men), Dr. Kirk! ; 
Occurs also in Cape Colony and Natal, and extends to the countries which border 
on the Black Sea. 
Scabiosa decurrens, Thunb. (C. decurrens, Roem. et Sch.), mentioned by Major 
Harris in Highlands of ZKthiopia, ii. p. 409 (1844) as a highly ornamental plant with 
snowy heads, at Shoa, Abyssinia, is probably the same species. 
_2. G. acaulis, Steud. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sect. ii. n. 563. Root 
thick, perennial ; stem very short or obsolete, 3-6 in. high. Leaves 
radical or subradical, crowded, oblanceolate or narrowly sublyrate, 
obtuse, attenuate downwards, quasi-petiolate, dilated and clasping at 
the base, glabrous or hispid near the base, crenate or incise-lobed, 
1)-3 in, long by 3-8 in. wide. Scape terete, simple, 1-headed, his- 
Pidulous above ; heads globose, 2 in. in diameter. Scales of the invo- 
lucre oblong, entire, obtuse with a short apiculus, more or less setose 
above and on the margin, dark towards the tip. Calyx ciliate. Corolla- 
tube pubescent outside, somewhat pubescent also inside. Stamens 
inserted near the top of the corolla-tube.—A. Rich. Fl, Abyss. i. p. 368. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
3. SCABIOSA, Tourn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 159. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary; lobes setaceous or pappose-plu- 
mose. Corolla 4~5-lobed, funnel-shaped, irregular. Stamens 4. 
Stigma somewhat dilated, emarginate.—Erect or ascending perennial 
or annual herbs or undershrubs, glabrous or pubescent, with elongated 
ches. Leaves opposite, entire or pinnatifid. Heads terminal, 
