358 LXXIII, COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Inula. 
cymes 3-6 in. diameter. Scales of the involucre multiseriate, imbri- 
eate, of nearly equal length, acute, ciliate; inner linear, shortly hairy ; 
outer successively wider, more lanceolate and villous; outermost folia- 
ceous, densely villous. Receptacle flat, naked, } in. or more in dia- 
meter. Outer fl. ligulate. Achenes oblong, 7; in. long, costate, with 
erect-patent short setw near top. Pappus tawny, uniseriate, barbellate. 
—Del. in Ferr. et Galin. Voy. Abyss. ili. p. 147, t. xiv.; I. fruticosa, 
Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sec. ii. n. 664. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Ferret and Galinier, Schimper! 
3. I. confertifiora, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 399. Shrubby 
below, much branched above; branches terete, striate, albido-tomen- 
tellous and leafy at extremities. Leaves elongate-lanceolate, acute, 
narrowed at the base, shortly petioled, denticulate, albido-tomentellous 
beneath, nearly glabrous above, reticulate, submembranous, 1$-5 10. 
long by 3-14 in. wide; denticulation gland-tipped. Capitula sub- 
hemispherical, 4-2 in. diameter, many-flowered, on unequal bracteate 
pedicels ranging up to 1 in. long, in dense corymbose or rounded ter- 
minal cymes 3-7 in. wide; bracts foliaceous. ‘Scales of the involucre 
multiseriate, unequal, imbricate, ciliate; inner linear acute ; outer suc- 
cessively shorter, more obtuse lanceolate and hairy at the back. Re- 
ceptacle flat, naked, } in. diameter. Outer fi. ligulate. Achenes 
oblong, terete, about 10-costate, 4; in. long, with few short erect- 
pelent sete near apex. Pappus uniseriate, pale-fulvous, minutely 
scabrid. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Q. Dillon and Petit! Roth! 
4. I. macrophylla, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. et Aschers. Enuwn. 
pp. 285, 307, non Hort. ( Steud.) Robust erect perennial herb, 24-5 ft. 
high ; stem branched only above, somewhat sulcate and angular, more 
or less pubescent. Leaves oval or ovate, obtuse or uppermost subacute, 
submembranous, tawny-tomentose at least beneath, asperulous above, 
denticulate ; upper cordate-auricled, amplexicaul, sessile ; lower an 
radical narrowed at base and petioled, 1 ft. or more long. Capitula 
campanulate, somewhat turbinate, 4 in. long, about 30-flowered, on 
short unequal pedicels, in a dense branched corymbose terminal cyme 
4-8 in. wide. Scales of the involucre multiseriate, unequal, imbricate, 
acute or subacute, tawny; innermost somewhat caducous, linear, 
ciliate above, outer successively shorter, more lanceolate and more 
hairy at the back. Receptacle foveolate, naked, j in. diameter. 
Florets all hermaphrodite, yellow. Achenes terete, oblong, about 12- 
ribbed, with few minute sete on some of ‘the ribs above, zy in. long: 
Pappus uniseriate, fulvous, scabrid.—Inulaster macrophyllus, Schultz 
Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, sec. ii nn, 912, 988; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss- 
i, p. 599, 
Abyssinian name Ternacha. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! 
5. X. Mannii, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 331. Breet 
robust herb, 2-10 ft, high ; stem and branches angular, suleate, pubes- 
