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of the ray-florets linear or oblong, sulphur-coloured, 3 in. long. Achenes 
oblong, silky-hairy, not spotted, din. long; pappus shallow cup-shaped ; 
sete obsolete. 
Upper Guinea. Niger, Nupe, Barter! Prince’s Island, Barter ! 
9, A. helianthoides, 0. § H. An erect hispid annual, 1-3 ft. 
high. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, serrulate, acuminate, acute, 
strigose-hispid, somewhat narrowed at and 3-nerved near the base, 
1-4 by 3-1} in. ; petioles ranging up to 2in. Heads campanulate, 
+4 in. long, pedunculate, in lax cymes ; peduncles ranging up to 
1} in. Outer involucral scales linear, strigose, not foliaceous, shorter 
than the florets. Ligules of the (8) ray-florets white or pale red. 
Achenes obovoid-oblong, silky-villous, indistinctly spotted, rounded at 
apex with a short cup-shaped pappus and very short sete.—Corono- 
carpus helianthoides, Schum. et Thonn. P!. Guin. 393, non Benth. ; C. 
Gayanus, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 434, excl. syn. 
Upper Guinea. Thonning! Niger, Nupe, Barter! Baikie! Quorra, Vogel! 
Lower Guinea. Loango, Soyauz ! 
10. A. Kotschyi, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 372, ex Oliv. in 
Trans.Linn.Soc.Lond.xxix.98. An erect, branched, scabrid, hispid annual, 
1-4 ft. high. Leaves varying from lanceolate or oval to linear, mostly acu- 
minate, serrulate or subentire, narrowed and shortly petiolate or rounded 
subsessile and subamplexicaul at the base, 1-8 by 4-14 in., scabrous 
above, strigose beneath. Capitula hemispherical, }-# in. long, shortly 
pedunculate, solitary or a few near together overtopped by the upper- 
Most involucrate leaves ; peduncles ranging up tolin. Outer invo- 
lucral scales foliaceous, more or less exceeding the florets. Ligule of 
the ray-florets dark purple, }4 in. long. Achenes turbinate-oblong, 
silky-villous, } in, long, not spotted, truncate at apex with a short cup- 
shaped pappus, and 2 sete ranging from } in. downwards till they are 
obsolete.—Dinterotheca Kotschyii, Schultz Bip. in Flora 1842, p. 435; 
Wirtgenia Kotschy’, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. iii. n. 1741 ; Corono- 
carpus Kotschy’, Benth. Fl. Nigrit. 433; C. Priewreanus, Benth. Le., 
excl. syn. 
Upper Guinea. On the Quorra at Attah, Vogel! (the flowers are noted as 
yellow, but as the specimen is far advanced, those of the disk, not those of the ray, 
Bia; = referred to); Niger, Barter ! (flowers chocolate-coloured), Baikie ! Senegambia, 
‘ Nile Land. Cordofan, Kotschy ! Cienkowsky ; Gallabat, Schweinfurth ! Abys- 
om Schimper ! Q. Dillon! Upper Nile, Speke and Grant! Petherick! and Murie! 
» Marnier, 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! Burton! Angola, Monteiro! Loango, 
dus ! 
Mon ozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Peters ; Hutton! Zambesi-land, Rovuma River, 
! Zanzibar, Kirk ! Hildebrandt. 
trigenia longeradiata, Hochstett. ex Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 287, name 
3) we . 
nly, from Abyssinia, is unknown to us. 
6. MELANTHERA, Rohr.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p.377. 
Capitula at length subglobose, radiate (in Tropical African species) 
yellow ; ray-florets pistillate or neuter. Involucre hemispherical ; 
