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and shortly pubescent.—A. abyssinica, Vatke in Linnea xxxix. p. 493, 
non Benth. et Hook. f. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
42. INULA, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 330. 
Capitula heterogamous usually yellow and radiate; florets of ray 
?, 1-multiseriate. Involucral bracts multiseriate, imbricate ; receptacle 
plane or slightly convex, areolate or foveolate. Corolla of female fl. 
2-3-dentate, sometimes minute ; of hermaphrodite fl. tubular 5-toothed. 
Anther-base sagittate with long tails. Achenes subterete, 4-6-ribbed 
or with the intermediate ribs equally distinct. Pappus 1-pluriseriate, 
sete few or copious, unequal.— Herbaceous or frutescent with alternate, 
simple, entire or serrate, more or less scabrid pubescent or tomentose 
leaves. Capitula usually in terminal corymbose cymes ; occasionally on 
short lateral branches. 
A large genus especially of temperate countries of the Old World. The following 
Species are confined to Africa. 
Shrubby. Outer florets ligulate, female. ; 
Capitula solitary. Leaves dilated subauriculate at the base 1. Z. somalensis. 
Capitula densely corymbose. Leaves all narrowed and 
sfortly petiolate at the base. 
Seales of the involucre of nearly equal length, densely 
Shaggy. 2. 2. . ee ee ee ts 
Seales of the involuere very unequal, somewhat hairy . 3 
erbaceous, Florets all hermaphrodite, tubular. 
Capitula corymbose. 
Scales of the involucre more or lessacute. . . . . . 42 macrophylla, 
Scales of the involucre more or less obtuse . . 6. L Mannii. 
apitula in interrupted subglobose clusters . 6. 1. glomerata. 
1X, Somalensis, Vatke in Ocsterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, p. 826. A 
small shrub, about 8 in. high, with the habit of a Pulicaria. Stem 
erect, branched ; branches woody, angular, pubescent above. Leaves 
alternate, obovate-oblong, denticulate, punctate beneath, about 2 by 
5.3 base dilated, subauriculate, subsemiamplexicaul; teeth and 
apex mucronate; margin and midrib below pubescent-shaggy. 
Capitula solitary, radiate, shortly pedunculate. Involucral bracts 
obovate-lanceolate, loosely imbricate, mucronulate, nearly equal ; the 
accessory ones few. Receptacle areolate. Achenes terete, appressedly 
Setose from the base to the apex. Sete of the pappus 15, barbellate. 
Nile Land. Somali country, among the Ah] Mountains, Hildebrandt. 
The description is taken from’ Vatke l.c. 
2. I. Arbuscula, Delile in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. vol. xx. p. 98. 
Shrubby ; branches terete, striate and puberulous below, villous leafy 
and tawny above. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, acute or subacute, mu- 
‘ronulate, narrowed at the base into short petiole, denticulate, pale- 
tomentose beneath less so above, 3-6 in. long by 1-2 in. wide, upper- 
Most smaller, Capitula hemispherical, many-flowered, 1 in. diameter, 
9A unequal villous pedicels wi in. long, in dense corymbose terminal 
. L. Arbuscula. 
. L. confertiflora. 
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