314 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Conyza. 
obsolete; tube with a few scattered setiform papillew. Achenes thinly 
pilose. Pappus uniseriate, barbellate, tawny.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1. 
p. 390; (2) Brigeron abyssinicus, Schultz Bip. ex Schweinf. et Asch. 
Enum, 284 (name only). 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Abyssinian name Gursai. 
6. CG. Vatkeana, 0. § H. Divaricately branched, puberulous, 
herbaceous above. Branches striate, slightly flexuous above. Leaves 
(upper) linear or spathulate-oblong, obtuse, mucronate, sessile, amplex- 
icaul, scarcely auriculate at the base, entire, ranging up to 14 by jin. 
Heads nearly hemispherical, } in. diam., without rays, on slender ee 
dicels ranging up to } in., numerous, in ample corymbose panicula 
cymes. Involucral bracts narrowly lanceolate-subulate, taper-pomnte?, 
puberulous, not purplish. Pappus somewhat sordid.—C. macrorhiza, 
Vatke, part, in Linnea, 1875, p. 483; non Schultz Bip. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Among bushes, alt. 5,000 ft., 14th Sept. 
1862. Tigré name Subhindday,. 
7. G. egyptiaca, Ait.; DC. Prodr. v. p. 382. Annual or bien- 
nial, erect, branched, 14-3 feet high, hirsute or pilose with spreading 
hairs. Stem terete, striate. Leaves linear-oblong or oblong-spat ie 
late, coarsely toothed, pinnatifid or subentire, obtuse or acute, eer e; 
amplexicaul or auriculate at the base, pilose or hirsute on both s1 * 
1-4 in. long by yy-1 in. wide. Capitula hemispherical, many-flower™, 
4-2 in. diam., on unequal and variable usually short pedicels in 
corymbose or elongated terminal and axillary panicles. Scales of and 
lucre pauciseriate, linear, acuminate, nearly equal, pubescent, yess 
mately reflexed. Receptacle at first alveolate, more or © : 
fimbrilliferous, convex, at length constricted at base. Ligule of vet 
florets obsolete. Achenes thinly pubescent. Pappus tawny or near 
white.—O. lineariloba, DC. 1. c. p-. 385; Hrigeron cegyphacum, L. ; f 
dentata (Willd. ?) DO. 1. c.; ©. echioides, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. » 
p. 388. ‘us! 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet! Roger! Richard! Sierra Leone, Afzelius: 
North Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth ! . ’ Unyoro 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! and others ; Gallabat, Schweinfurth! Uny 
(590), Speke and Grant ! Niamniam-land, and White Nile, Schweinfurth ! Cordofan, 
Kotschy! 
* South Central. Region about Lake Tanganyika, Cameron! Kirk! 
Mozamb. Distr. (Form with longer leaf-segments) Moramballa, Dr. At . sy- 
Erigeron exstipulatum, Schum. et Thonn. Guin. Pl. 387, is given by DC. as 
nonym of C. dentata, but with a mark of doubt. «ple in the 
Extends eastward through India to China and Australia, Very variable } 
depth and breadth of the leaf-lobes, 
8. C. senegalensis, Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. p. 1928. Erect branched 
herb, a foot and a half high or more. Stem and branches striate, P 
bescent. Leaves obovate or oblong, membranous, pubescent, too . 
ranging up to 2 in. long; the upper ones sessile, amplexicaul, 0 se 
auriculate at the base. Capitula hemispherical, }-3 in. diam., 0? Pt 
bescent pedicels ranging up to 14 in., which are slender in flower . 
become more robust in fruit, arranged in a corymbose leafy cy™® 
