Lawnea. | LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). 461 
the base of the nodes, undivided or sinuate-pinnatifid, obtuse or apicu- 
late, attenuate to a quasi-petiolate base, the radical ones ranging 
up to 43 by 1 in.; margins often denticulate. Capitula oblong, 4-2 in. 
long, about 11-flowered, solitary or subsolitary, on bracteate peduncles 
of 4-4 in., terminal and at ends of short lateral branches. Inner invo- 
lucral bracts about 8, linear or narrowly oblong. Achenes }-} in. 
long, 4-5-ribbed. Pappus about } in. long, soft, white.—Prenanthes 
sarmentosa, Willd. Phytogr. p. 10, t. 6. f. 2 (1794) ; Lactuca sarmen- 
fosa, Wight Contrib. Bot. Ind. p. 27 (1834) ; Microrhynchus sarmen- 
tosus, 8. bellidifolius and S. Dregeanus, DC.’ Prodr. vii. p. 181; Launen 
sarmentosa, Schultz Bip. mss. in Herb. Hohenack. Ind. Or. n. 193 
(anno 1847), 
Mozamb. Distr. Kongone mouth of the Zambesi, Kirk! Zanzibar Island 
Hildebrandt ! Cabaceira, Peters / . . 
Oceurs also in the Cape, Natal, Madagascar, Mauritius, India and Ceylon. 
The following is unknown to us :— a 
Paleya billotioides, Schultz Bip. 2. ¢., p. 286, name only, from Abyssinia. 
_The plant “ with Eryngium-like prickly-toothed single leaves, and large almost 
Stiftia-like heads,” referred to by Mr. Bentham in his Memoir on Composite (Journ. 
Linn, Soe. xiii, 546) collected by Afzelius and by Barter on the Niger, in the absence 
of good flowers we are obliged to leave undetermined. Mr. Bentham suggests it may 
Prove to be the type of a new Mutisiaceous genus near Dicoma. It may be Bojeria 
—, oe described from a Senegal specimen of Heudelot’s (Ann, Sc. Nat. Ser. v. 
Xvi, 364), 
UNKNOWN CULTIVATED AND EXCLUDED SPECIES OF COMPOSITE. 
Aspilia wedelieformis, Vatke in Osterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxvii. p. 197 (1877), with 
short description, from the coast of Zanzibar, is unknown to us. ; 
Harpephora Endlicheriana, Walp. Rep. ii. p. 662, which is probably a species of 
Aspilia, according to Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 372, has been erroneously 
to come from Tropical Africa. _ . 
Helianthus annuus, Linn., is cultivated in Abyssinia and Mozambique. ; 
Spiridanthus, Fenzl. ex Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. ii. p. 105, which is according to 
Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p- 400, Monolopia major, DC., a Californian herb, was 
“Toneously described by Fenzl as Tropical African. oo, . 
Cichorium Intybus, Linn, a cosmopolitan herb, is given in Hook. Niger Fl. p. $39 
from the island of St. Thomas : 
_ Scorzonera pinnatifida, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 479 (179), from Mozambique, bay 
Michx, (1820), 8. ? africana, Poir. Encyel. Méth. Suppl. v. p. 114 (1817), DO. Prodr. 
"N. p. 126, is unknown to us. 
Orver LXXIV. GOODENOVIEE. (By W. P. Hiern.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular, pentamerous. Calyx-tube adnate 
to the ovary ; limb persistent, partite, cup-shaped or annular. Corolla 
8amopetalous, inserted on the ovary, oblique ; lobes valvate in estiva- 
tion, induplicate at the apex. Stamens 5, alternating with the 
rorolla-lobes, inserted at the junction of the base of the corolla with 
the top of the ovary; anthers free or connate, 2-celled, dehiscing lon- 
gitudinally, Epigynous disk 0. Ovary 1-2-celled; style simple, 
