‘Eupatorium.| XXII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 301 
clavate. Achenes 5-angled, truncate; pappus setaceous, 2-3-seriate, 
scabrid.—Herbs or shrubs usually with opposite, in the following 
species with alternate leaves, entire or toothed. Capitula usually 
corymbose. Flowers purplish or white. 
_A large genus, most abundant in the New World, more sparingly represented in 
Asia and Europe; wanting with this exception in Tropical Africa and Australia. 
1. BE. africanum, 0. § H. Herb, probably 2-4 ft.; branches 
erect, striate, pubescent, obtusely angular, leafy. Leaves alternate 
or here and there subopposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtusely 
pointed, uppermost reduced and acuminate, dentate- or incise-ser- 
rate, or upper leaves entire above, base rounded, 3-plinerved, 3 in. 
long, 2 in. broad; petiole 4 in. Capitula few- (about 5-) flowered, 
oblong-campanulate, ¢ in. wide, on short pubescent pedicels, collected 
in dense corymbose terminal cymes, 14-4 in. broad. Involucral scales 
about 8, sub-biseriate, inner oblong, obtuse, pilose above, outer shorter. 
Achenes sparsely pubescent ; pappus 2-3-seriate, of about 30 scabrous 
sete. 
Wile Land. Niamniam-land, Schwvinfurth! 
Mozamb. Distr. Moramballa, alt. 1200 ft,, January, Dr. Kirk! 
E. sinuatum, Lour. Fl. Coch. 487 (E. hispidum, Pers., DC. Prodr. v. 183), from 
Mozambique Island, is unknown to us. De Candolle suggests it may be a Vernonia. 
12, MIKANTA, Willd.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 246. 
Capitula homogamous, usually 4-flowered. Involucre oblong, 
scales 4 (or 5), imbricate, nearly equal. Receptacle small, naked. 
Corolla regular, tubular, infundibuliform above, 5-toothed. Anther- 
base obtuse, tip ovate or lanceolate. Achenes acutely 5-angular, apex 
truncate, pappus 1- (2-) seriate, scabrid, setee free or connate at base. 
—Herbs or shrubs, usually scandent or twining. Leaves opposite, 
petiolate. Capitula small, corymbose in the following species ; florets 
white, purplish, or pale yellow. 
A large American genus with the following outlier which is widely distributed in 
the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
1. M. scandens, Willd. ; DC. Prodr.v.p.199. Twining or scan- 
dent, attaining occasionally many (40) feet in height, glabrous or 
pubescent ; branches terete, striate. Leaves from ovate to deltoid or 
hastate, from a cordate or auricled base, acute or acuminate, subentire 
repand or dentate, membranous, varying from 1 or 2 to 5 in. in length ; 
petioles 4-5 in. Capitula 1-2 in. long, glabrate or puberulous, sub- 
Sessile, in terminal and axillary pedunculate corymbose panicles ; scales 
oblong acute. Achenes glabrous or nearly so, usually sessile-glandular ; 
Pappus l-seriate, white or reddish.—Eupatorium scandens, L.; Mikama 
chenopodifolia, Willd., DC. 1.c. 201; M. natalensis, M. capensis and M. 
cvyota, DC. 1c. 198; M. mossambiquensis, Steetz in Peters’ Mossamb. 
ot. i. 377. Mikanie specimen in Herb. Lindl. (Cantab.)! M. 
famoidi, affine ex DC. 1. c. 208, obs. 2. semana 
Upper Gui ia. Si sone, Don! Afzelius! Niger, Fernando 
Po, Th. Vogel ! snd piace Daeatnann &: herd Mann san River, Mann ! 
