Dichrocephala.] LXX111. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). 303 
lucres, in terminal often divaricate panicles. Corolla of ? fl. white 
of 8 violet or purple. 
A small genus of the Old World Tropics. 
Corolla of 9 florets tubular . . . ... . =. . 41. Dz latifolia. 
Corolla of ? florets rotate-campanulate . . . . . 2. D. chrysanthemifolia. 
1. D. latifolia, DC. Prodr. v. p. 372. Erect or ascending herb 
$-5 ft. high, asperulous or minutely setulose; stem and branches 
angular. Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, acute or obtuse, terminal lobe ovate 
or ovate-rotundate, or lateral lobes wanting, dentate, sessile or attenuate 
at base into alate or slender petiole, membranous, 14-3 in. long ; upper 
smaller. Capitula subglobose, many-flowered, }—} in. diameter, on 
unequal pedicels ranging up to 1 in. long, in lax terminal divaricate 
panicles. Scales of involucre subbiseriate, obovate or broadly ellip- 
tical, membranous-margined, fimbriate-ciliate, nearly glabrous. Re- 
ceptacle depresso-convex, glabrous, papillose-pitted, constricted below, 
vo in. broad. Corolla of 9 fi. tubular 2-3-dentate ; of ¥ fl. campanu- 
late constricted below. Achenes obovate, compressed, glabrous or 
very nearly so —D. abyssinica, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. i. 
176, ii. 949, non i. 87, nec iii. 1847. 
Abyssinian names Kulle gab, Kulegale. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, 7-8000 ft. alt., Mann! 
North Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Q. Dillon, Plowden! 
Mozamb. Distr. East African chain, alt. 4700 ft. Speke and Grant ! 
Occurs also in the Levant, the East Indies and Hong-Kong. 
2. D. chrysanthemifolia, DC. Prodr. v. p. 372. Erect herb, 
1-5 ft. high, simple or branched above; stem and branches terete, 
obscurely striate, shortly hirsute or shining and glabrate below. 
Leaves oblong or obovate, incise-lyrate, obtuse or acute, dentate with 
acute or mucronate teeth, sessile or lower contracted into widely alate 
Petioliform auriculate-amplexicaul base, membranous, appressedly 
hairy ; lower 1}-4 in. long, upper shorter. Capitula globose or glo- 
se-oblong, many-flowered, }—} in. diameter, on unequal pedicels 
ranging up to 14 in. long, in lax terminal divaricate panicles. Scales 
of involucre 6-8, herbaceous, pubescent, ovate or elliptical or oblong, 
with membranous fimbriate-ciliate margins. Receptacle turbinate or 
columnar, closely tuberculate, glabrous. Corolla of female fl. rotate- 
campanulate, 3-4.fid. Achenes compressed, glabrous, obovate.—D. 
abyssinica, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. i. 87, iii. 1847, non 1. 
6 nec 11. 949; D. oblonga, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 12 (form 
with more oblong capitula) ; D. macrocephala, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Athiop. 145. 
Abyssinian name Kullegab. . 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, top of peak, Mann! Cameroon Mountains 
7-8000 ft. alt. Mann ! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! Hildebrandt ! 
Occurs also in East Indies and Madagascar. 
