380 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Aspilia. 
about equalling the disk-florets. Ligules of (20) ray-florets yellow, 
oblong, 3-3 in. long. Achenes (immature) linear, strigose. Pappus 
cup-shaped ; setee obsolete or very short.—Coronocarpus helianthvides, 
Benth. in Hook. Fl. Nigrit. p. 434, non Schum. et Thonn. 
Upper Guinea. Accra, Vogel! Niger, Baikie! Old Calabar, Mann ! Monteiro! 
Wile Land. Djur-land, Schweinfurth ! Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth! 
5. & Smithiana, 0. § H. Scabrous annual, 1}-2 ft. high or 
more, with straggling branches. Leaves oval or ovate, usually obtuse, 
remotely serrulate, narrowed at the base, shortly petiolate, 1-2} by 
3-1} in., strigulose. Capitula campanulate in flower, hemispherical 
in fruit, }-2 in. long, pedunculate, in a leafy panicled cyme; peduncles 
ranging up to lin. Outer involucral scales linear-lanceolate, herbace- 
ous, not foliaceous, strigulose or scabrid, shorter than the florets. 
Achenes turbinate-oblong, silky-villous, indistinctly spotted, 2 in. long, 
rounded at apex with a short narrow cup-shaped pappus and 2 very 
short or obsolete sete. 
Upper Guinea. Dahomey, Burton! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 
6. A. augustifolia, 0. § H. An erect much branched scabrous 
annual, 2-3 ft. high. Leaves linear, narrowed to an_obtuse apex, di 
tantly serrulate, narrowed to a sessile base, 1-5 by 3-$ in. Capitula 
campanulate in flower, hemispherical in fruit, 4 in. long, pedunculate, 
in a lax leafy corymbose cyme ; peduncles ranging up to 45 in. Outer 
involucral bracts oblong, obtuse, herbaceous, not foliaceous, entire, 
strigose-scabrid, 3-4 in. long; inner paleaceous. Ligule of the ray- 
florets oval-oblong, bifid at apex, }-4 in. long, straw-coloured. Achen® 
turbinate-oblong, silky-villous, spotted with dark blotches and minu n 
reddish ones, rounded at apex with a narrow tubular cup-shape 
pappus and 2 short horn-like setee. 
Upper Guinea. Niger, Nupe, Barter! 
7. A. linearifolia, 0. § H. A branched hispid herb. Branches 
patently hispid above. Leaves linear, acute or subacute, scarcely nat- 
rowed at the subamplexicaul sessile base, distantly serrulate, strigore- 
scabrous especially above, 1-4 by qyy-4 in. Capitula campannla’® 
hemispherical, 3 in. long, pedunculate, in a lax open cyme. Oute 
involucral scales herbaceous, not or scarcely foliaceous, ovate-oblong: 
acute, strigose, 3-2 in. long. Li gules of the ray-florets oblong-obova “ 
3-2 in. long. Achenes (immature) linear-oblong ; sete obsolete ° 
very short. 
Upper Guinea. Niger, Baikie! 
8. A. rudis, 0.5 H. A coarse rigid very hispid herb, 4 ft. high. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate distantly serrate, goat 
scabrid above, very hispid below, rounded at the base, very sho eh 
petiolate, 14-4 by 4-1} in. Capitula campanulate, § in. long; tate 
pedunculate, in small dense terminal cymes, exceeded by the gg ore 
crate uppermost leaves; peduncles in. long, slender. 4 . 
involucral scales linear, acute, not pai the florets, hairy. 
