400 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [Schistostephium. 
nerved, truncate or broadly wedge-shaped at base, alternate but those 
of the shortened sterile branches opposite. Capitula hemispherical, 
about } in. diameter, on slender pedicels ranging up to # in., in a 
rather dense hemispherical or ovoid cyme. Involucral bracts narrowly 
oblong-lancolate, mostly acute, falling rather short of the florets. 
Marginal florets female. Pappus 0. 
South Central. Not yet recorded from Tropical Africa; but there is a speci- 
men in the Kew herbarium from New Caledonia, Drakensbergen, about 234° S. Lat., 
collected by (Bolus n. 3007) McLea ! 
Occurs also in Kafirland and Natal. 
77. ARTEMISIA, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 435. 
Capitula heterogamous, discoid; outer florets pistillate, tubular. 
Involucre ovoid or campanulate, bracts pauciseriate, subequal, imbri- 
cate. Receptacle naked or nearly so. Anther-base entire or 2-den- 
tate. Style-branches truncate or penicillate. Achenes narrowly 
ellipsoidal in our species; pappus 0.—Herbs or shrubs with 2-3-pin- 
natisect (simply incised or entire) alternate leaves and small often 
pendulous capitula in racemose panicles (in A. abyssinica). 
A large genus chiefly confined to the Northern hemisphere. 
1, A. abyssinica, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. iii. n. 1862. 
Branches two or more from the crown of the root, herbaceous above, 
erect, simple or nearly so, 1-23 ft. high, glabrate or somewhat pubes- 
cent. Leaves decompound in capillary divisions, ovate or ova) in 
general outline, 4-2 in. long besides the petiole which is short in the 
case of the upper and elongated in the lower leaves, glabrate or some- 
what hoary-hairy. Capitula subglobose, 7',—} in. diameter, shortly 
pedicellate, in short racemes with a leaf at base often about equalling 
them, arranged in an elongated thyrsoid cyme. Involucral bracts oval 
obtuse nearly glabrate or somewhat pubescent. Marginal florets 
female, central ones hermaphrodite, fertile. Achenes obscurely striate, 
without pappus. Receptacle convex, naked.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1. 
p. 420. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Q. Dillon and Petit! 
Schweinfurth in Beitr. Fl. Athiop. p. 142, gives a variety eriocephala of Schultz 
Bip. with more cottony heads ; also a species 4. Schimperi, Schultz Bip. from Abyssima 
without description. 
There are in the Kew Herbarium specimens in leaf without flowers from Kilima- 
njaro, collected by. Dr. Kirk and Rev. C. New, and also from Tropical South Africa, 
collected by T. Baines, all of which resemble Artemisia Afra, Jacq. 
78. GONGROTHAMNUS, Steetz; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Pl. ii. 437. 
Capitula homogamons, discoid; florets §. Involucre campanulate 
or turbinate, scales pluriseriate lanceolate acute, outer shorter. - 
ceptacle toothed or shortly fimbrillate. Corolla regular, glabrous °F 
sessile-glandular. Anther-base with obtuse auricles. Style-branches 
narrow, linear, papillose. Achene probably 10-costate, hairy ; papP™% 
