Cotula, } LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 899 
Cap., pars post., p. 162 (1800), which is represented in our Flora by some specimens’ 
in. high, with shortly sheathing petioles and shortly pedunculate heads ; Abys-, 
sinia, Schimper! a.D. 1850, n. 125 in Hb. Berol.; alt. 14,000 ft. 
5. ©. cryptocephala, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 
1171. Procumbent herb, often rooting by layers, glabrous except the 
top of the peduncles, 1-6 in. high. Leaves opposite, bipinnatipartite, 
1-44 in, long including the sheathing connate petiole, oval in outline, 
lobes shortly linear, acute. Capitula 4 in. diameter, shortly pedun- 
culate, overtopped by the leaves; peduncles }~1 in. long, pilose-pubes- 
centabove. Involucral bracts oval, obtuse, glabrous, margin membra- 
nous, dark brown towards the apex. Female florets in one row. 
Achenes compressed, glabrous, 3! in. long, obovate-oblong, emarginate 
at apex. Receptacle flat? Pappus 0.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 420. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! . 
76. SCHISTOSTEPHIUM, Less.; Benth. et Hook, f. 
Gen. PI. ii. 432. 
Capitula heterogamons, discoid ; outer florets ¢ with a tubular or 
oblique rudimentary simple or 2-fid corolla. Involucre hemispherical 
or turbinate ; bracts oval or lanceolate, imbricate, pluriseriate. Recep- 
tacle naked or nearly so. Anther-base obtuse. Style-branches trun- 
cate. Achenes more or ess obovoid, somewhat angled, glabrous; 
Pappus 0.—Hrect or decumbent leafy-stemmed herbs with alternate 
Pinnatifid incised or crenate-lobate leaves and terminal corymbose 
cymes of yellow capitula. 
Confined to Tropical and Southern Africa. 
Florets all hermaphrodite or the outermost very few female. 
ves pinnatisect, alternate . . . 2 6 + + e+ ee 
ter florets female. Leaves coarsely toothed, those of the cor 
Short sterile branches opposite . . . . + + - + + 2 &. rotundifolium, 
1. S. heptalobum, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 482. Bran- 
ches herbaceous, subterete or somewhat angular below the nodes, 
obsoletely pubescent. Upper leaves sessile or sometimes subpetiolate, 
obovate in general outline, alternate, pinnatisect, appressedly pubescent, 
1} in, long, with about 2 pairs of lobes and a longer terminal one ; 
Obes mostly oblong, apiculate, entire, or the terminal one with a 
lateral lobule, margins revolute. Capitula hemispherical or turbinate, 
in, diameter, on pedicels not exceeding 4 in., in dense pedunculate 
Corymbose cymes. Involucral bracts narrowly lanceolate, appressedly 
silky, mostly obtuse. Florets all hermaphrodite or very few of the 
outermost ones perhaps female. Pappus 0. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesia, near Senna, Kirk / 
Occurs also in Natal. 
2. S$. rotundifolium, Fenzl ex Harv. Fl. Oap. iii. p. 169. A 
robust slightly pubescent herb, 2-3 ft. high. Branches alternate, terete 
low, obtusely angular above. Leaves roundishly ovate in general 
outline, incise-dentate, 3-14 in. long besides petiole of 4-3 in., 3-7. 
1, S. heptalobum. 
