Blumea. | LXXIII. COMPOSITZ (OLIVER AND HIERN). 323 
under } in. long, in pyramidal or elongate terminal panicles 1-3 in. 
wide. Scales of involucre pauciseriate, very narrowly linear-lanceolate, 
acute, pilose with long white loose hairs, inner ones scarious, outer ones 
rather shorter, ascending. Receptacle naked. Ray-florets oo, filiform; 
ligule obsolete; disk-florets 0 or o, 5-toothed; anthers tailed, tips 
obtuse or retuse. Pappus sordid or nearly white, uniseriate, obscurely 
barbellate. Achenes glabrous or with few scattered hairs above.—B. 
dregeanoides, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. sect. ii. 633 (slenderer and 
less pubescent form). B. runcinata, Thoms. in Speke and Grant, App. 
p. 637. B. Perrottetiana, DC. |. c. 443. B. thyrsoidea, Sch. Bip. in Bot. 
Zeit. 1866, 166. Conyza thyrsoidea, Pers., DC. Prodr. v. 389. OC. 
amena, Link, DC. 1. c. 382. Blumea Wightiana, DC. 1c. 485. B. 
axillaris, DC. 1. c. 434. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Niger, Barter ! 
_ Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! Unyoro, Speke and Grant! Gazelle 
River and Mittu-land, Schweinfurth ! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, andt ! 
Also in Mauritius, Tropical Asia and Australia; a variable plant; the smaller 
forms often flaccid with slender petioles and remotely denticulate leaves. 
B. solidaginoides, DC. Prodr. v. 443, may belong to this species ; the description 
agrees, but we have not seen a specimen. 
3. B. abyssinica, Sch. Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 1006. 
Herb, simple or much-branched at stock, glabrous except capitula or 
puberulous, 1-12 ft. high; branches decumbent or ascending, terete, 
glaucescent. Leaves alternate, linear or lower oblanceolate, obtusely 
pointed or acute, rounded at the sessile clasping base, or lower ones 
attenuate at base, denticulate or subentire, submembranons, ranging 
up to 24 in. long by 2 in. wide. Capitula hemispherical, o-flowered, 
1m. diam., on slender unequal pedicels ranging up to 2 in. long, in 
.Wide corymbose terminal panicles. Scales of involucre subquadri- 
Seriate, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, unequal, pubes- 
cent with spreading hairs ; outer series successively shorter. Receptacle 
naked, Ray-florets filiform, tubular; mouth toothed; style much 
exserted with slender branches. Ligule obsolete or rudimentary, 
minutely toothed. Anther-base shortly and acutely sagittate. Corolla- 
th setulose. Achenes thinly setulose ; callus strong, perforated. 
Pappus obscurely barbellate, sordid, uniseriate-—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1. 
P. 392 Conyza Bovei, DC. Prodr. v. 381. B. Bovei, Vatke in Ocsterr. 
Bot. Zeitschrift, 1875, p. 3.4. Varthemia, Schultz. Bip. in Hb. Schimp. 
bys. iii., 1568, 1940, ex Vatke in Linnea, xxxix. p. 485. 
Nile Lana. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Hildebrandt ; Red Sea, Lord! 
Occurs also in the Great Oasis, and Arabia, and extends to Affghanistan. 
27. LAGGERA, Sch. Bip. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 290. 
Capitula heterogamous, many-flowered, disciform ; outer florets ¢ 
numerous, filiform; disk-florets tubular. Involucre campanulate or 
®mispherical ; scales oc-seriate, usually rather rigid, the outer fre- 
quently recurved, ovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate to narrow-linear, 
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