Conyza. | LXXIII, COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 317 
denticulate at apex or acute, green or more or less crimson or purple, 
glabrous. Receptacle narrow, convex, constricted at base, alveolate, 
tuberculate, glabrous. Ligule of ray-florets obsolete. Anther-base 
obtuse, unappendaged. Achenes pale, shining, with few appressed 
microscopic hairs. Pappus white.—LHrigeron echioides, Schultz Bip. 
(non Conyza echioides, A. Rich.), in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. 
p. 146; C. variegata, Schultz Bip., 3. pratensis and y. silvestris, Vatke in 
Linnea xxxix. p. 483. 
Nile Gand, Abyssinia, 1853, No. 673, and (1863) 1123, 1124, Schimper ! 
15. GC. Newii, 0. § H. Extremities terete, puberulous or puber- 
ulous-tomentose, with loose short patent hairs on the peduncles and 
pedicels. Leaves alternate, oval-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
narrowed to the winged petiole, acutely serrate, glabrescent above, 
thinly hairy beneath, 14-21 in. long. Capitula } in. diam., on pedicels 
of ¢-4 in., in terminal corymbs 2-3 in. broad. Involucral scales sub- 
membranous, subequal ; outer elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, 
pubescent; inner oblanceolate or oblong. Receptacle pitted, pits 
With toothed or fimbrilliferous margins. Corolla of ray-florets tubular, 
much shorter than style, with long loose papille at the mouth: of 3 
florets divided 4 of its length. Anther-base bidentate. Achenes 
Compressed ; setee of pappus cohering in basal annulus. 
Mozamb. Distr. Kilima-njaro, Rev. C. New! 
16. C. Heudelotii, 0. § H. Herbaceous? Branches terete, 
striate, puberulous. Leaves ovate, shortly acuminate, acute, slightly 
narrowed at base, distantly denticulate, glabrate above, shortly 
tomentellous beneath, petiolate, (upper) about 2} in. long by 1 in. wide ; 
lateral arching veins and net-veins delicately marked beneath ; margins 
slightly reflexed ; petioles about 3 in. long, somewhat dilated at base. 
~apitula campanulate, many-flowered, 4-1 in. long, on short pedicels, 
m dense branched corymbose cymes 1-3 in. diam. Scales of invo- 
lucre multiseriate, imbricated, obtuse ; inner linear, glabrous; outer 
oval-oblong, puberulous, successively shorter. Receptacle narrow, 
Plano-convex, scarcely naked. Ray-florets ligulate; ligule about 
equalling pappus. ‘Achenes shining, scattered with minute sete. 
appus reddish, scabrous.—Pluchea subumbellata, Klatt in Ann. Sc. 
at. Sér. v. vol. xviii. 369. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! 
17. c. hypoleuca, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 391. Shrubby. Branches 
terete, white-tomentose, leafy. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
acute or obtuse, mucronulate, narrowed at base into a short winged 
Petiole, Serrate, subcoriaceous, white-tomentose beneath, glabrous 
“ove, 13-3 in, long by 4-3 in. wide. Capitula subglobose, } in. diam., 
¢2 Unequal pedicels ranging up to } in. long, in dense corymbose 
“minal cymes 2 in. wide. Scales of the involucre 3—4-seriate, thinly 
Phbescent, ciliate, acute, inner linear-lanceolate, outer lanceolate, 
fet Receptacle with filiform fimbrille towards the centre. Ray- 
*rets with a distinct minute 2-3-dentate oblong ligule. Achenes 
