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THE PLANTS OF MILANJI, NYASA-LAND, 
post anthesin elongato, erecto, patente, 1-14 poll. longo ; acheniis 4 lin. longis, 2 lin. 
latis, costatis, glabris. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft. No. 62. 
A very distinct species, with numerous erect wand-like stems, becoming leafless below, 
clothed above with obovate-lanceolate acute, fleshy, sessile leaves, tapering to the base, 
and short flowering branches, forming a dense, elongated, leafy panicle; peduncles slender, 
spreading or reflexed during flowering, afterwards stouter and erect; heads campanulate, 
about 3 in. long wnile flowering, and then nodding, afterwards erect, the upper opening 
first; involucral bracts 5, lanceolate-acuminate, about i in. long during flowering, 
extending to lin. afterwards, with white membranous margins; pappus yellowish white, 
much elongated after flowering, 1-12 in. long, spreading, resembling a shaving-brush ; 
achenes smooth, or with a few very short hairs. 
Allied to Othonna coriifolia (Sond.), with which O. Bainesii, Oliver & Hiern, has been 
identified ; from which, however, it is very different in general appearance, as well as in 
the characters given above. It is the only species peculiar to Tropical Africa. 
BERKHEYA ($ Sron.gA) JOHNSTONIANA, Britten, sp. n. B. caule erecto, herbaceo, striato, 
irregulariter alato ; foliis radicalibus et inferioribus (5—7 poll. longis, 14 latis) pinna- 
tifidis, subtus dense albo-tomentosis, supra viridibus dense setosis, setis luteis 
flaccidis, marginibus setosis vel spinellosis; petiolis decurrentibus; foliis caulinis 
minoribus lineari-lanceolatis; capitulis paucis (3-4), dense corymbosis, discoideis ; 
peduneulis brevibus, post anthesin elongatis; squamis involucralibus lineari-lanceo- 
latis, serratis, spinescentibus acutis; acheniis glabris, pappo pallide fusco. 
Hab. Milanji. No. 7. 
Stem herbaceous, erect, conspicuously furrowed below, less so above, irregularly winged, 
radical and lower stem-leaves 5-7 in. long, 14 broad, irregularly pinnatifid, clotted beneath 
with white felty tomentum and above with weak yellowish spines, margins irregularly 
spinescent ; heads small, in dense corymbs of 3-4 peduncles, elongating after flowering ; 
flowers all discoid, purplish(?). The inflorescence, when young, resembles that of a 
Cirsium. 
BERKHEYA SUBULATA, Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Capensis iii. p. 507. 
Hab. Zomba. 
ERYTHROCEPHALUM ZAMBESIANUM, Oliver & Hiern, in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 441. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft.; Zomba. 
"E diit ABYSSINICA, Sch. Bip. in A. THU Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 458. 
Hab. Milanji. No. 111. 
Torts: ABYSSINICA, Sch. Bip. in — Pl. Abyss. i. No. 1? 
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