376 LXXIII, COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN).  —[ Blainvillea. 
smooth, entire or somewhat jagged at apex. Achenes doubly convex, 
somewhat compressed, villous, terminated by 2 smooth glabrous sete. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Bakel Mountains, Leprieur ; Albreda, River 
Gambia, Perrottet ! 
Nile Land. Gallabat, near Matamma, Schweinfurth! ; . 
Schweinfurth in Beitr. Fl. Athiop. p. 142, gives Cordofan for this species. 
60. WEDELIA, Jacg.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 370. 
Capitula heterogamous radiate ; ray-florets 9. Involucre campan- 
ulate or hemispherical ; scales sub-2-seriate, outer herbaceous, inner 
dry passing into the plicate entire or toothed scales of the receptacle. 
Corolla of ray-florets ligulate spreading yellow. Anther-base entire or 
minutely sagittate. Achenes oblong or obovoid, with a cupuliform 
subentire or fimbriate pappus (obsolete in our specimens of W. biflora) 
with or without 1 or 2 prominent setee.— Herbs or undershrubs often 
scabrid or hirsute, with opposite ovate or lanceolate leaves and terminal 
solitary or loosely cymose-panicled capitula of medium size. 
A considerable genus common to the tropics of both hemispheres. 
Achenes none furnished with sete. 
Pappus wanting. Leaves ovateor oval . . . . . 1. W. biflora. 
Pappus cup-shaped. Leaves lanceolate-oblong . . . 2. W. africana. 
Achenes, at least the central ones, furnished with 2 set. 
Hairs on the shoots spreading. Setz of the pappus 
nearly smooth : 
: rr en 3. W. mossambicensis. 
Appressedly strigose-scabrid. Sete of the pappus bar- 
bellate. 
Herbaceous. . . . . . ee ee W. Menotriche. 
Shrubby . . ee. 5. W. abyssinica. - 
1. W. biflora, Wight Contrib. Bot. Ind. p. 18. A nearly glabrous 
or somewhat scabrid straggling perennial herb, sometimes shrubby at 
the base. Leaves ovate or oval, obtuse or shortly acuminate, acutely 
narrowed at the base into the petiole, scattered with short strigose 
hairs, serrate or crenulate, 1-21 by 4-13 in. ; petioles slender, pubescent 
and clasping at base, 4-1 in. Capitula depresso-globose, about > 10. 
diam., 2-4 on long or short peduncles at the apex of the stem or some- 
times more numerous in an open corymb. Scales of involucre oval- 
oblong, strigulose, nearly equal, about the length of the ligules. Achenes 
turbinate, obtuse along the three angles, glabrous. Pappus wanting nour 
specimens.—Verbesina biflora, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, p. 1272; Wollastome 
biflora, DC. Prodr. v. 546; Wollastonia scabriuscula, DC. ex Decaisné, 
Herb. Timor. in Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. iii. 414; Wollastonia zandod- 
rensis, DC. Prodr. v. 547 ; Anthemiopsis macrophylla, Bojer ex DC. |. ¢ 
Mozamb. Distr. (oa Island, Peters ! Zanzibar, Bojer ; Mafia Island, 
Mozambique, Forbes ! 
Widely spread from S. China, over India and the Indian Archipelago to N. rf 
tralia. The extra-African synonymy is not given, and the description applies to 
African specimens, 
2. W. africana, P. Beawv. Fl. Ow, vol.ii. p. 19, t. 69. Strageling 
pubescent perennial herb, a footand a half or more high. Branches 
