Chrysanthellwm.] XXII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 395 
1. G. procumbens, Pers. Syn. Pl. ii. p. 471. Glabrous annual, 
procumbent or erect, usually much brariched, ranging up to a foot in 
height. Leaves alternate, petiolate, decompound-pinnatipartite, rang- 
ing up to 13 in. besides the subamplexicaul petiole which ranges 
nearly up to the same length, segments linear or lanceolate, apiculate. 
Capitula $-4 in. diameter, on pedicels ranging up to 1#in., numerous, 
cymose.—DC. Prodr. v. p. 630, with synonymy ; O. Swartzii, O. senega- 
lense, and C. indicwm, DO., l.c., p. 631 with their synonymy. Hinter- 
hubera Kotschyi, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Kotsch. Nub. n. 175, and in Hb. 
Schimp, Abyss. ii. n. 1183, iii. n. 1680. ; 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet; Quorra at Patteh, 7. Vogel! Niger 
at Nupe, Barter! Baikie! Dahomey, Burton ! Cape Coast, Tedlie. 
Wile Land. Gallabat, Schweinfurth! White Nile, Petherick / Binder. Cordofan, 
Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper ! Hildebrandt ; Unyoro, Speke and Grant! Djur-land, 
Schweinfurth 
A common weed extending from East India to the West Indies and Brazil. 
Chrysanthellum abyssinicum, Schultz Bip. ex Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 284, 
name only, from Abyssinia, is unknown to us. 
“1, JAUMEA, Pers.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 397; (Hyperi- 
cophyllum, Steetz, Benth. et Hook. f. 1.c.) 
Capitula heterogamous (or radiate); florets tubular. Involucre 
campanulate or turbinate; bracts pauciseriate rather broad submem- 
branous imbricate, outer shorter. Receptacle naked. Anther-base 
obtuse. Style-branches obtuse or truncate. Achenes oblong or cu- 
neate, angled ; pappus of numerous narrow or aristiform pales, apex 
minutely uncinate (in our species ).—Herbs or undershrubs with oppo- 
Site linear or oblong-lanceolate entire leaves:and solitary terminal long- 
pedunculate capitula of medium size. 
_, Asmall American genus. We follow the “ Genera Plantarum” in referring our 
Plant to this genus. Our material for comparison is very imperfect, but the only 
(ree pecies has a near general resemblance to Jaumea (Chethymenia) peduncuiaris, 
1. J. compositarum, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 397. An 
‘rect glabrous herb, 2 ft. or more high, simple below, once trichoto- 
mously branched above. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or scarcely 
acute, sessile, semi-amplexicaul, 14-5 by 3-1} in., closely pellucid- 
punctate; margins minutely scabrid-ciliate. Capitula }~1 in. diameter, 
homogamons ; peduncles 3 together, bibracteate about the middle, 
“3 in. Involucral bracts obtuse, glaucescent; inner lanceolate, 
in. long ; outer oval, 1 in. long. Florets 3? in. long, corolla saffron- 
coloured. Ariste of the pappus 18-20, free, attenuate from the 
“parsely setulose base, glabrous and mostly hooked at the apex, un- 
“qual, the longer about as long as the achenes.—Hypericophyllum com- 
Positarwm, Steetz in Peters Mossamb. Bot. p. 499, t. 50. 
Mozamb. Distr. Boror, Rios de Sena, Peters. Zanzibar, Burton! 
72. Tagetes erecta, Linn., a South American plant, occurs in Abyssinia and other 
Parts of Tropieal Africa, 
