Adelostigma.] LxXxt1. CoMPOSIT# (OLIVER AND HIERN). 321 
Staminate florets 1 or few, 5-toothed; anther-base bidentate. Style 
undivided, strongly papillose from the tip downwards. Achenes ob- 
long, obtusely angular, clothed with erect stiffish hairs; basal callus 
white; setee of pappus 12-24, faintly cohering at base.—Cancellaria 
senegalensis, Sch. Bip. ms. in Hb. Cosson. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia (flowers rose-coloured), Heudelot ! Sierra Leone, 
Afzelius ! 
2. A. athrixioides, Steetz in Peters Mossamb. Bot. 430. Erect 
annual herb of 1 ft. more or less, with 2 or 3 short leafy branches 
above, thinly pilose-hirsute. Leaves linear-lanceolate, subacute, mu- 
cronulate, narrowed to the base, entire or denticulate, 3 in. long, 2— 
m. broad. Capitula solitary, terminal, 2? in. diam., on tawny-pilose 
erect peduncles. Involucral scales very numerous, narrow-linear- 
subulate; outer successively shorter; intermediate 4 in. long. Pistillate 
florets very slender, 24 lin. long; hermaphrodite florets much larger, 
traversed by 5 dark purple lines. Achenes 1 lin. long, often slightly 
curved, clothed with silvery appressed hairs; sete of pappus 12-16 
denticulate. 
Mozamb. Distr. Inhambane, Dr. Peters! 
25. TARCHONANTHUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Pl. ii. 288. 
Capitula dicecious, discoid. Involucre campanulate; bracts 1-2- 
Seriate, herbaceous. Receptacle small, naked. Corolla of 9 fl. densely 
Woolly. Anther-base sagittate, long tails cohering in pairs. Style 
- undivided or minutely 2-dentate. Achenes woolly ; pappus 0.— 
rubs or small trees with alternate areolate-reticulate leaves and 
Paniculate inflorescence, the 2 capitula conspicuous owing to the co- 
Pious woolly investment of the florets. 
With the following exception confined to the Cape. 
1. ©. camphoratus, Linn. Sp. Pl.,ed.i., 842. A much-branched 
shrub or a small tree with dark-ashy branches and aromatic smell. 
aves narrowly oval, obtuse or submucronulate at the apex, somewhat 
;*trowed to the shortly petiolate base, entire, very shortly tomentose 
neath, subglabrescent and minutely tessellated above, coriaceous, 
4 by 3-3 1in., pale. Capitula campanulate, 2 in. long, very shortly 
Pedicellate, in short racemes forming pyramidal cymes. Female florets 
Achenes very woolly.—Harv. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 118, with synonymy. 
fone Yand. Somali, var. minor, Hildebrandt! shrub of 9-10 ft., alt. 6600 
Set ; Abyssinia, Hildebrandt / tree of 13 ft.; Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Bip. ; minor, Less.; Hary. 1. ¢. is probably a synonym; also 7. abyssinicus, Schultz 
P. In Schweinf, Fl, ZEthiop. 287. ; 
I curs also widely spread over the regions of Africa south of the tropic. 
tha: t was upon an arborescent species of Tarchonanthus that Dr. Welwitsch states 
gic found growing the only species of the genus Viscum which he saw in Angola. 
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