Wedelia. | LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). 377 
opposite, herbaceous and terete and more or less patently pubescent 
above. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, narrowed above, broad near the 
shortly petiolate base, strigose-hispid, serrate or remotely denticulate, 
rugose-venose beneath, 2-3) by 4-14 in. Capitula solitary on slender 
peduncles at the extremities of the stem and branches, hemispherical, 
in. diam. ; peduncles ranging up to 2} in. Scales of the involucre 
linear-oblong, obtuse, strigose, }-4 in. long. Achenes angular, oblong, 
glabrescent, tipped by a cup-shaped ciliate pappus, without sete. 
Upper Guinea. Warree, River Formoso, P. Beauvois ; Sierra Leone, Winwood 
Reade! Afzelius! 
3. W. mossambicensis. Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. 
p. 97, excl. syn. An erect hirsute-hispid perennial. Branches several 
from a woody stock, subsimple, striate, herbaceous above, 1 ft. or more 
high. Leaves ovate or the upper lanceolate, acuminate, denticulate, 
strigulose-hirsute, narrowed at the base to the very short petiole, 
1-35 by 3-1} in. Capitula solitary on slender peduncles, hemisphe- 
nical, 1 in. diam. Outer scales of involucre lanceolate, strigose, 3 in, 
long; inner smaller. Ligules oval-oblong, 3-4 in. long, longitudinally 
streaked. Achenes of the disk-florets hairy or glabrescent, tipped by 
a short cup-shaped pappus, as well as by 2 nearly smooth setw.— 
Wedelia, Sp. No. 1, T. Thoms in Speke, Journ., App., p. 638. 
Mozamb. Distr. 6°S. lat., alt. 3800 ft., Speke and Grant! 
4, Ww. Menotriche, 0. § H. A strigose-scabrid herb. Branches 
Opposite, terete. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, acuminate, denticulate or 
entire, narrowed at the base into the short petiole, with prominent 
ves beneath, 1-4 by 2-1 in. Capitula campanulate-hemispherical, 
about 4 in. diam., solitary, erect. Peduncles 2-3 in. Jong, 1-headed 
or sometimes branched below. Outer scales of the involucre foliaceous, 
anceolate, acuminate, 3-2 in. long, 3-2 in. broad, spreading ; inner 
Snes smaller, coriaceous below, foliaceous above. Ligule of the ray- 
florets oblong, golden, 4-2 in. long, marked with 5-6 blackish longi- 
tudinal lines. Achenes of the disk-florets obconic, thick, doubly con- 
vex, compressed or obsoletely 4-sided, tipped with two subulate bar- 
ate sete. Inner pappus paleaceous, short.—Menotriche strigosa, 
Steetz in Peters Mossamb. Bot. p. 475. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rios de Sena, Peters! Zanzibar Coast, at Mombassa, an 
tndershrub, March, 1876, Hildebrandt! United with the following by Vatke. 
A specimen from Zambesi-land, collected by Dr. Kirk, with obtuser involucral 
Scales and the inner ones not foliaceous may perhaps belong to this species, 
6. Ww. abyssinica, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, p. 327. 
A shrub, a yard high. Stem erect, branched above, terete, strigose ; 
ranches 16 in, long. Leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, repand- 
Subserrate, scabrous above or shaggy on both surfaces, 3-nerved, 
shortly petiolate, 14-31 by 2-4 in. Capitula on long pedicels, 1-3 at 
© extremities of the branches; ray-florets orange-coloured, female ; 
sk-florets yellow. Involncral bracts ovate-lanceolate, rather obtuse, 
se hairy, in about 2 rows, Scales of the receptacle oblong-linear, 
