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34, CHILIOCEPHALUM, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 
. p- 300. 
Capitula heterogamous, disciform, few-flowered (5-15), collected 
in dense horizontal terminal cymes, outer or all the florets 2, 9 fl. 1-2 
or wanting. Involucre small, ovoid, nearly equalling the florets, scales 
2-3-seriate, obtuse. Receptacle naked. Corolla tubular of ¢ fi. nar- 
row, mouth 3-fid, of % fl. slightly wider above, 5-toothed. Anther- 
base shortly tailed. Style-branches obtuse or truncate. Achenes 
oblong, terete, glabrous ; pappus 0.—Herb, more or less lanate, with 
erect stems from the crown of 1-3 ft. Leaves alternate decurrent. 
Confined to Abyssinia. 
Remarkable in this section in the absence of pappus. 
_ 1. ©. Schimperi, Benth. in Hk. Ic. Pl. 1137. Erect herb, 1-23 ft. 
high, somewhat branched at crown, simple or subsimple above, hoary- 
tomentose or lanate on underside of leaves, inflorescence and upper 
part ; stem and branches below terete, finely striate. Leaves linear or 
oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, mucronate, slightly narrowed below to 
sessile base, upper slightly, lower distinctly, decurrent, 3-1} in. long 
by 3-4 in. wide, longitudinally veined and thinly covered with short 
pubescence above, sometimes viscid-glandular. Capitula cam- 
panulate-oblong, subsessile, zs in. long, crowded in dense corymbose 
lanate cymes, 14-4 in. diameter.—Kralikia myriocephala, Schultz Bip. 
mm Schweinf. Fl. Aithiop. p. 151. K. Schultzii, Buchinger ex Schultz 
Bip. in Schweinf. 1. p- 151. 
Wile Zand. Abyssinia. Banks of high mountain streams in Semen, 10,000 ft., 
fl. October, Schimper ! 
® generic name Kralikia has been appropriated for a genus of grasses by Cosson 
eu. 
35. PHAGNALON, Cass.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 304, 
Capitula heterogamous, disciform, many-flowered ; outer florets oo 
» central oc ¥. Involucre campanulate or subhemispherical, scales 
; serlate, imbricate and scarious or membranous, outer gradually 
shorter, Receptacle plane naked (or foveolate). Corolla of ? fi. 
tubular, filiform, minutely dentate, of 9 fl. tubular but slightly wider 
above, 5-toothed. Anther-base scarcely or obscurely produced at base ; 
*Pical connective ovate obtuse or retuse. Style-branches obtuse or 
subtruncate, Achenes small; pappus of slender 1-seriate setee.—Small 
shrubs ascending or decumbent, more or less whitish tomentose or 
Biabrate. _Leaves alternate narrow. Capitula of medium size, pedun- 
“late, solitary or loosely corymbose or axillary. 
whiten 8enus extending from the Atlantic Islands eastward into Asia. 
te hate or -tomentose on under surface of leaves, &c. Peduncles often long, 
> minal and from upper axils only. 
Syunelap branched. . 2)... . we ee LP hypoleucum. 
‘uncles usually simple. : ‘i 
Involuere thinly woolly, scales acute. . 2. P. Schweinfurthis. 
Volucre glabrous or nearly so, outer scales obtuse. . 3. P. nitidum. 
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