Microlecane.] LXXII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 387 
shortly petiolate, lobes lanceolate linear or oblong acute.. Capitula 3-3 
in. diameter ; pedicels 1-2} in. long, mostly alternate. Achenes yy in. 
long, narrowly oblong, black.—Chrysanthellum (§ Microlecane) abys- 
smicum, Schultz Bip. in Flora, 1842, p. 440. Hinterhubera abyssinica, 
Schultz Bip. in Schweinf, Beitr. Fl. Adthiop. p. 150. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, margins of woods in valleys near Adoa, Sehimper ! 
68. COREOPSIS, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 385. 
Capitula heterogamous radiate ; ray-florets 1-seriate, conspicuous, 
¢ or neuter. Involucre duplex ; outer bracts more or less herbaceous, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, inner membranous, subequal, 1—2-seriate, 
broader than the outer; bracts sometimes appearing more or less 
connate at base. Scales of receptacle plane or slightly concave, mem- 
branous, striate. Anther-base entire or bidentate. Style-branches 
truncate or with an abrupt subulate appendix. Achenes usually much 
compressed, linear oblong or obovate; margins sometimes winged (in 
the African species thickened), apex with 2 filiform subulate or broad- 
based ariste, usually barbellate with sete directed upwards.—Herbs or 
frutescent more or less, with opposite often pinnatisect or deeply 
divided simple leaves and pedunculate solitary or variously cymose 
yellow conspicuous heads. 
A large genus of warm regions ; species most numerous in the New World. 
Achenes much compressed, with thin or alate margins. 
Arist of the achenes filiform, shorter than the achene. 
Achenes not or scarcely winged. 
Leaves bipinnatifid. Softly pubescent. . . . . 1, ©. Grantii. 
Ves pinnatisect tripartite or undivided. Glabrous 
hispid or scabrid. 
Hispid or scabrid, or nearly glabrous. 
Tips of the teeth or lobes of the leaves not se- 
taceous. 
Tnvolucral bracts puberulous or _hispid- 
pubescent. . 
Leaves pinnatisect. . . . . . . - + 2 C. Steppia. 
Leaves tripartite or not lobed. . . . . 3. €. chrysantha. 
Involueral bracts hispid with broad compressed ae : 
hairs. Leaves pinnatifid . . . . . 4. C. pristinarieformis, 
Tips of the teeth or lobes of the leaves setaceous. 
aves tripartite. . . . . . . + + « 4 @. glaucescens. 
Leaves pinnatisect . . . . . - + + + 6, C. abyssinica. 
Quite glabrous. 
aves tripartite. 
Lobes of the leaves linear . 7. C. Kirkii. 
Lobes of the leavesovate. . .....- 8 C. monticola, 
Leaves undivided, oval or lanceolate. . . . 9 @. Barteri. 
Leaves undivided, linear . _— . . 10. ©, linearifolia. 
Achenes winged 11. C. guineensis. 
Ste of the achenes subulate, scarcely as long as the 
. Winged achene. Perennial . . rn eer 
eas aehenes longer than the winged achene. 
Res not much compressed, ‘with @ thick ounded not 
Weng edge Te oe 
. 12. C. macrantha. 
13. C. Prestinaria. 
14. C. pachyloma. 
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