Phagnalon.]  LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). 339 
panulate, oo-flowered, 4 in. diameter, solitary on short axillary 
peduncles }-3 in. long, forming narrow leafy racemes. Scales of 
mvolucre multiseriate, much imbricated; inner narrowly linear-lan- 
ceolate, finely pointed, outer successively broader and shorter, subpatent 
or slightly recurved above. Receptacle plano-convex, naked. Ray-f. 
filiform; mouth 4-5-dentate. Anther-base translucent-papillose. 
Achenes thinly pilose. Pappus sparse, tawny.—Pluchea (Laggera) 
phagnaloides, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sect. ii. 685; Bluwmea 
phagnaloides, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 393. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper. 
36. ACHYROCLINE, Less. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 305. 
Capitula heterogamons, disciform, few-flowered, outer florets 9 ,cen- 
trall-3, 8. Involucre oblong or narrow-ellipsoidal (subcampanulate in 
A. Hochstetteri), scales pluriseriate, closely imbricate, scarious, coloured, 
glabrous or nearly so. Receptacle narrow, naked (or paleaceous). Corolla 
of $ fi. filiform, of @ fl. tubular 5-toothed. Anther-base tailed, tails 
Cohering in pairs. Style-branches truncate papillose. Achenes “ ob- 
long slightly compressed ;” pappus-sete slender.—More or less fru- 
Scent, erect or loosely diffuse, hoary tomentose lanate or glabrescent. 
ves alternate, linear or ovate. Capitula small, yellowish whitish or 
pearly, in dense terminal rounded solitary or laxly panicled cymes. 
A small genus chiefly of the New World. 
Leaves linear strongly revolute. . . . . . . . + « 1, A. batocana. 
Leaves flat or but slightly revolute. 
Involucres golden or yellow . . . . . . + « « « 2. A, Hochstetteri. 
Involucres white or tawny. 
ves linear. ; 
Achenes segsile-glandular. Leaves subacute . . . 3. A. lueuloides, 
Achenes glabrous. Leaves acuminate . . . . . 4. 4, glumacea, 
aves ovate or oval. 
Leaves petiolate. Straggling shrub. . . . . . 5. 4. Schimperi. 
Leaves sessile. Erect herb . 
1. A. batocana, 0. & H. Shrubby ; branches subvirgate terete 
closely tomentose and leafy above. Leaves scattered, narrowly linear, 
acute, sessile, not narrowed at the base, pale-tomentose beneath, 
glabrous and shining above, l-nerved, 4-1 in. long, margin revolute. 
apitula oblong, slender, about 5-flowered, }-} in. long, subsessile in 
€nse corymbose cymes 11 in. diameter. Scales of involucre multi- 
Seriate, imbricate, yellowish, shining, glabrous, obtuse; innermost 
ovate-oblong or -lanceolate, scarious ; outer successively shorter. 
Fyne Central. Batoka Country, Dr. Kirk! 
to this lay from Inhambane, Mozamb. Distr., collected by Dr. tcp may belong 
ai we = 3 it differs, however, by a more branched more wi ° y dag anc mr 
(1877),) Ymbose inflorescence. (A. Steetzii, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. xxv. 
. 6. A. sclerochlena. 
: = A. Hochstetteri, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sect. i. 
rr 7. Erect, branched from the base, 14-44 ft. high, more or less 
Ww itish-lanate throughout ; branches virgate, subalate. Leaves linear 
°F oval-linear, very acute, more or less narrowed to sessile (or lower 
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