438 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
ultimo maximo, superiora minora minus incisa, summa (in 
ramulos panicule) linearia. Jnflorescentia Ericthitis. Ca- 
pitula cernua, iis G. cernue simillima. Flores ex Vogel k 
brunneo rubri. Flosculi iis G. cernue similes; antheris 
tamen evidentius acuminatis. ^ 
8. Gynura crepidioides, Benth.; erecta, scabro-pubescens, foliis 
ovatis inciso-dentatis basi longe angustatis, capitulis longe 
peduneulatis subcorymbosis, involucri squamis interioribus 
circa 15, flosculis tenuibus (exteriorum antheris cassis).— 
Sierra Leone, Don; and, apparently the same species, Se- 
negal, Heudelot. 
A smaller plant even than G. cernua, and usually more 
hispid. The inflorescence is less simple than in that plant, 
less compound than in G. polycephala, and it differs from both 
in the narrower heads of the flowers, with about half the 
number of scales to the involucre. á 
4. Gynura vitellina, Benth. ; glabriuscula, caule diffuso radicante, 
ramis adscendentibus parce ramosis, foliis petiolatis ovatis 
grosse dentatis, capitulis ad apices ramorum solitariis cernuls, 
involucri squamis interioribus circa 20, flosculis omnibus 
conformibus hermaphroditis involucrum breviter superanti- 
bus.— Fernando Po, Vogel. : 
Rami e caule prostrato 1-2-pedales, angulati, compress! Y: sub- 
teretes, in ramulos 2-4 monocephalos divisi. Folia long! 
petiolata, membranacea, 1-3 poll. longa, basi cuneata yes 
cata v. cordata, juniora pubescentia, demum fere. glabra; 
petiolo 4-1-pollicari, sspe presertim ad folia superiora en 
biauriculato. Ramuli in pedunculos remote bracteatos on 
Capitula quam in speciebus Indicis latiora. Jnvolucrum 
lin. longum, squamis interioribus acutis margine mem» 
naceis et ultra medium diu connatis, dorso herbaceis striatis 
et minute puberulis; bractez seu squamæ exteriores palv® 
setaceæ. Flores (ex Vogel), aurantiaci vel vitellini, numero 
sissimi, omnes hermaphroditi, corolla superne latiore quam "E 
precedentibus. Styli rami superati cono subulato acuto 
pubescente. Receptaculum minute fimbrilliferum. Achen 
striata, minute puberula, 
