384. LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Spilanthes. 
1. S. Acmelia, Linn. Syst. Nat., edit. xiii., vol.ii.p. 610. Annual, 
creeping at base or ascending, glabrous or pubescent above, from a 
few inches to a foot high. Leaves ovate, obtuse, subentire or some- 
what dentate, ranging up to 2 by 1 in., mostly narrowed at the base 
into a petiole of 3-g. Capitula 4-3 in. thick, conical or convex ; pe- 
duncles ranging to4 in. Ray-florets usually present; ligules sometimes 
minute or wanting. Achenes glabrous or ciliolate, with or without 
setwe.—S. caulirhiza, DC. Prodr. v. p. 623. 8S. africana, DC. l.c. 8. 
costata, Benth. Fl. Nigrit. p. 436. 9. abyssinica, Schultz Bip. in Hb. 
Schimp. Abyss. i. n. 134. Verbesina Acmella, Linn. Sp. Pl., edit. 1. 
p. 901. ? Eelipta filicaulis, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. p. 390. 
Acmella caulirhiza, Del. Cent. Pl. Afr. Mér. p. 45, t. iii. f. 7. 
Upper Guinea. St. Thomas Island, G.Don/ Gaboon River, Mann! Sierra 
Leone, Barter ! Cape Coast and Cape Palmas, Vogel! (8. costata, Benth., without 
ray-florets and a rib along one side of the achenes.) oo. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Unyoro, Speke and Grant! Niamniam-land, 
Schweinfurth! Sennaar, Cienkowsky. . 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! (form with short peduncles and without 
ray-florets.) i 
Mozamb. Distr. Roheho Pass, Speke and Grant! River Shire, Dr. Kirk! 
A variable species widely distributed over the warmer parts of the Old World. 
65. GUIZOTIA, Cass. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 382. 
Capitula heterogamous with a yellow ray; ray-florets l-seriate 2. 
Involucre hemispherical, bracts free, sub-2-seriate, outer more Or less 
herbaceous or even foliaceous, inner passing into the palew of the con- 
vex receptacle. Corolla of disk usually more or less glandular-tomen- 
tose at base. Anther-base obtuse or 2-dentate. Inner aches 
tetragonous, glabrous or nearly so, apex rounded ; pappus 0.—Seabrig 
hirsute or glabrescent herbs with opposite sessile oblong leaves an 
terminal solitary or cymose capitula of moderate size. 
A small Tropical African genus of which one species has been introduced into 
India, probably for the sake of its oil-affording seeds. 
The following species, except the last, were recognized by Schultz and A. Richard; 
they are, however, difficult of discrimination, and may ultimately prove to be 
forms of one much cultivated and variable species. 
Leaves undivided. Achenes of the disk quadrangular. 
Outer involucral bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate. 
Nearly glabrous. Palee of the receptacle glabrous or os 
nearly so. Corolla-tube of the disk-florets hairy . . 1. G. abyssiniea, 
Pubescent above. ; Pale of the receptacle loosely pilose 
towards the tip. Corolla-tube of the disk-florets sub- 
glabrous or sumewhat hairy . soe ee 
Outer involucral bracts lanceolate. 7 
More or less scabrous. Perennial. . . . . . . . . 3. G. Schultew. 
Villous. Annual... ... i. A &, villosa. 
Leaves tripartite. Achenes (immature) compressed . . . . 5. G. bidentoides. 
2, G. Schimperi. 
1. G. abyssinica, Oass. in Dict. Sc. Nat. lix. p. 248. —< 
annual, nearly glabrous below, somewhat viscid-scabrid above, 1-5 Ts 
high. Leaves more or less lanceolate and dentate, somewhat scadri€ 
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