Conyza. ] LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 315 
volucral scales in about 4 rows, more or less pubescent and scattered 
with small glands at the back, linear-lanceolate, acute, narrow ; the 
inner ones subscarious, the outer smaller, green. Ligule 0. Recep- 
tacle depresso-convex, } in. diam., punctate, not alveolate. Achenes 
glabrous. Pappus white or nearly so.—Sieber Fl. Seneg. Exsice. n. 42 ; 
Blumea senegalensis, DC. Prodr. v. p- 449; B. guineensis, B. foliolosa, 
DC.l.c.; B. aurita, y. mossambiquensis, Steetz in Peters Mossamb. 
Bot. p. 487. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Rousillon! G. Don! Sieber! 
Mozamb. Distr. Sena, Peters! 
9. CG. pectinata, Schultz Bip. mss. in Hb. Berol. Branches terete, 
obscurely suleate, puberulous with fine spreading pale hairs, leafy. 
Leaves (upper) lanceolate, acute, sessile, subamplexicaul at base, 
Incise-pinnatifid, with linear-lanceolate patent or arching teeth, thinly 
hirsute or scabrid, midrib beneath prominent, 13-2 in. long by 3-4 in. 
wide. Capitula hemispherical, many-flowered, 3-4 in. diam., on pedi- 
cels 1-2 in. long, in lax corymbose terminal cymes. Scales of involucre 
pauciseriate, linear-lanceolate, acute, glandular and hispidulons, 20, in. 
wide or narrower. Receptacle glabrous, tuberculate, :,—} in. wide, 
discoid, much constricted at base. Ray-florets filiform; ligule obso- 
lete; tube thinly pilose above. Anther-base bidentate ; tip oblong- 
lanceolate. Achenes compressed, thinly hairy, with ascending hairs, 
oblique at apex. Pappus uniseriate, scabrid, sordid.—LErigeron pecti- 
natus, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. i. p. 147. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, 8,000 ft. alt., Schimper! 
10. G. nana, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sect. ii. n. 1170. 
Perennial, cespitose, dwarf herb, scarcely 1 in. above the ground. 
Stems short, concealed by leaves, pilose-tomentose. Leaves crowded, 
Upper linear-oblong or -spathulate, denticulate or entire, scabrid-pubes- 
cent, 4-2in. long ; radical spathulate, elongate-attenuate at base, glabrous 
n uearly so, $14 in. long. Capitula campanulate, 2 in. wide, many- 
flowered, solitary, subsessile, terminal. Scales of the involucre pauci- 
Seriate, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent; margins and tips purple, 
3-nerved. Receptacle depresso-convex, constricted at base, foveolate. 
Ligule of ray-florets rudimentary, papillose-laciniate. _Anther-base 
minutely bidentate. Achenes (immature) compressed, pilose. Pappus 
oe tawny.—Hrigeron nanus, Sz. Bip. in Schweinf. et Asch. Enum. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
ll. c. variegata, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sect. u. 
2. 1385. Low often tufted herb of 1-1 ft., from a perennial stock. 
tems simple from base, pubescent. Radical leaves elliptical or oblong- 
elliptical, obtuse, long-petiolate, cauline from ovate-lanceolate to oblong 
or narrow-oblanceolate, sessile, uppermost amplexicaul, all pauciden- 
te, broadly pointed or obtuse, mucronulate, thinly hispid ; lamina of 
radical leaves 1 in. more or less long. Capitula campanulate, } in. 
lam., many-flowered, on very short hairy pedicels, or sessile 3-8 toge- 
