386 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Guizotia. 
4. G. villosa, Schultz Bip. in Walp. Rep. vi. p. 158. An erect 
villous annual, 9-15 in. high, with spreading branches. Stem and 
branches with spreading hairs. Leaves from elliptical to lanceolate, 
narrowed at both ends, more or less serrate, sessile, subamplexicaul, 
4-3 by 3-1} in.. Capitula hemispherical, }-3 in. diameter, pedicellate, 
in an open corymbose or somewhat elongated leafy cyme; pedicels 
slender, ranging up to 2 in. Outer involucral bracts lanceolate, obtuse, 
exceeding the inner ones. Corolla-tube of disk-florets hairy below. 
Achenes glabrous, 7; in. long.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 406. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! 
5. G. bidentoides, 0. § H. A somewhat pubescent dull herb, 
a foot or more high. Branches subterete, sulcate or ridged above. 
Leaves mostly crowded on abbreviated shoots, ovate, 1-3 in. long, tri- 
partite with the terminal lobe again tripartite or undivided, serrate or 
incise-dentate ; petioles 1-14 in. long. Capitula hemispherical, about 
4 in. diameter, on short pedicels crowded in a dense subglobose cyme 
14-3 in. wide or more. Involucral bracts in 2 rows of 4 in each row, 
all similar, lanceolate-oblong, 4 in. long. Ray-florets neuter ? ; ligule 
Zin. long. Achenes (immature) compressed. Pappus 0. 
Mozamb. Distr. Manganja Hills, 500-3,000 ft. alt., Kirk! 
66. Synedrella nodiflora, Gaertn., a widely spread weed of American origin, has 
been stated to occur in Tropical Africa, but we have not seen any specimen. 
67. MICROLECANE, Sch. Bip.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Pl. ii. 384. 
Capitula heterogamous, radiate, yellow; ray-florets conspicuous, 
l-seriate, 2. Involucre broadly campanulate, duplex ; outer series 0 
about 8 linear bracts alternating with and rather shorter than as many 
ovate-lanceolate membranous-margined inner bracts which are mse 
upon a dilated receptacular disk so as to appear connate about one- 
third their length. Pale of receptacle equalling or exceeding mvo- 
lucre, linear-oblong, subobtuse, not conduplicate. Anther-base un- 
appendaged. _Achenes compressed, striate, with a minute ciliolate 
pappus, exaristate—Herbs with opposite pinnatisect leaves am 
pedunculate loosely panicled heads of medium size. 
A monotypic genus. 
To this genus we provisionally refer, the plants—one, in fruit, collected. by Col. 
Grant at Gangi (see Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. 99), the other, 1p early 
flower, in Schimper’s 1862-8 Distribution (No. 1386). They are both destitute ° 
pappus or with but a narrow epigynous disk, but they do not exhibit any tendency to 
the turbinate dilatation of the receptacular disk characteristic of M. abyssinica. In 
other respects they have all the facies of Coreopsis. os 
The latter plant is given as an elongated slender finely cut form of M. abyssinica 
by Vatke in Linnea, xxxix. pp. 497-8 (1875). 
1. M. abyssinica, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 384. Brest, # 
ft. high. Stem sulcate-striate, glabrous below, oppositely eso 
above. Leaves ovate in outline, 1-3 in. long, thinly hispid-pubesce 
