Microglossa.]  LXXIII. COMPOSITZ (OLIVER AND HIERN). 309 
short pedicels, densely crowded in many-headed wide corymbose ter- 
minal cymes. Scales of involucre 3-4-seriate, puberulous, rather 
obtuse, ciliolate ; inner linear-oblong, scarious, l-nerved ; outer shorter 
oblong. Receptacle with a few setiform fimbrille. Ray linear, 
equalling twice the tube in width, notched at apex. Hermaphrodite 
fl.co. Style-tips ovate-lanceolate, papillose. Pappus pale-tawny. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, 7000 ft. alt., December-January, Mann! 
2. M. volubilis, DC. Prodr. v. p. 320. A small shrub or scan- 
dent, reaching 3-6 ft. or more; branches terete, sulcate, puberulous. 
Leaves’ ovate, acutely acuminate, obtuse at base, subentire, membran- 
ous, puberulous or subglabrate, petioled, 13-44 in. long by 3-25 in. 
wide ; petioles 4 in. long, dilated at base. Capitula campanulate } in. 
long, on short slender pedicels in dense corymbose terminal cymes 
2-8 in. wide. Scales of involucre 3-4-seriate, puberulous, subacute ; 
inner narrowly oblong-lanceolate, outer narrowly ovate. Receptacle 
naked. Ray-fl. ligulate; ray slender, equalling the tube in width. 
Pappus more or less reddish.—M. petiolaris, DC. l.c. p. 321. 
Upper Guinea. Niger, Vogel! Barter! Sierra Leone, Don! Smeathman ! 
Afzelius! Fernando Po, Vogel! 
Nile Land. Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar Island! Manganja hills, Dr. Meller! 
Occurs also in Madagascar and in the East Indies. 
3. M. sessilifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 320. Glabrous climbing or 
twining shrub; shoots flexuose terete striate. Leaves elliptical or 
narrow-elliptical, acute, mucronate or apiculate, narrowed to the 
minutely sagittate-auricled base, entire, 2-3 in. long, 1 in. broad, mem- 
ranous. Capitula campanulate, + in. long, subsessile in small sub- 
globose pedunculate terminal and axillary clusters forming ample 
terminal sometimes elongated panicles }-4 ft. wide. Scales of invo- 
lucre subtriseriate linear acute, with darker midrib; outer shorter. 
ay linear erect. Achenes hirsute or glabrate, dark brown, obscurely 
Costate, with white basal callus. Pappus rather dense, 1-seriate, 
reddish, sete scabrid. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! i 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Forbes! (specimen so labelled in Herb. Kew. 
Possibly by mistake), 
Also in Madagascar. 
4. M. angolensis, 0. § H. An erect shrub, 3-5 ft. high. 
Branches ascending, striate, terete, pubescent, leafy. Leaves linear- 
elliptical, acute at apex, attenuate to a sessile or subsessile base, 
puberulous above, pubescent below, margins somewhat revolute, 1-3 
re: in. Heads numerous, campanulate or at length hemispherical, 
5-4 m long, on slender pedicels of +1,—# in., in dense corymbose cymes 
of 2-6 in, diameter; bracteoles filiform, small. Involucral bracts nar- 
Tow acuminate, the inner ones linear, the outer lanceolate, pubescent 
outside. Flowers yellow. Ligules narrowly linear, exceeding the 
style. Achenes somewhat hispid. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Monteiro / (100 miles inland from Ambriz). 
