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COMPOSITA: EUPATORIEX. 
ADENOSTEMMA VISCOSUM, Forst. Char. Gen. 90. 
Camps VI b and VII to IX, 3900 to 5500 ft. 
Distrib. Chiefly in the warmer parts of the Old World from Africa to Australia and 
Polynesia. 
MIKANIA SCANDENS, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 1748. 
Camps VII to VIII, 3600 to 4900 ft. 
Distrib. Tropics and subtropics of both hemispheres. 
COMPOSITA: ASTEROIDES. 
DICROCEPHALA LATIFOLIA, DC. Prod. v. 372. 
Camps III to IX, 2500 to 5500 ft. 
Distrib. A weed in Africa, Asia and the Archipelago. 
MyniAcTIS WoLLastoniI, S. Moore, sp. nov. 
Herba humilis, scapigera. Folia rosulata, sessilia, spathulato-oblonga, obtusa, 
margine sparsim calloso-dentata, membranaceo-coriacea, utrinque pubescentia, 
basin versus glabra, plerumque 2-2:5 x 4-6 mm. .Scapus erectus, folia ssepius 
excedens, bracteis foliis similibus nisi minoribus onustus, monocephalus. Capitula 
mediocria, circa 54-flosculosa, circa 8 mm. diam.  Z/nvoluerwm hemisphericum, 
3-seriale; phylla oblonga vel anguste ovato-oblonga, obtusa, dorso piloso- 
puberula, circa 5 mm. longa. Radi flosculi 36, 2-seriales; ligule exserte, 
anguste obovato-oblonge, bifidae vel bidentate, 9:5 mm. longse. Disci flosculi 18 ; 
horum corolle fere medium usque 4-lobz; lobi ovati, obtusi. Stamina 4; anthere 
oblong, breviter apiculate, basi truncate, circa 0°75 mm. longe. Styli rami 
compressi, appendicibus conoideis preediti. Achenia compressa, ambitu anguste 
oblongo-obovata, breviter rostrata, superne scabrida, 2:5-3 mm. longa. 
Camps XIII to XIV, 10,500 to 12,500 ft. 
A small seapigerous herb, not more than 6 inches high, and often less. Rootstock 
elongated, only 1-2 mm. thick, but at the neck swollen to 5-6 mm., giving off several 
long, wiry, unbranched rootlets. Leaves about 10 to a rosette, though sometimes fewer, 
usually with 2-8 pairs of rather prominent teeth on either side towards the apex, 
otherwise entire. Scape up to 4 em. in length, but often considerably shorter; its 
bracts + 15 x 5 mm., like the scape itself pubescent. Leaves of involucre when dry _ 
usually dark at the apex and edges. Ligules apparently white. ^ Corollas of disc : 
narrowly campanulate, the tube 1:5 mm., the lobes 0'5 mm. long. Anthers easily 
separating, the connective produced into a small apiculus. Style relatively stout ; arms 
about 0:75 mm. long. Achenes dark brown; beak stoutish, truncate, straight or slightly 
curved, about 0-5 mm. in length. | : 
_ A pretty little plant, quite distinct from the two other known Papuan species. 
OLEARIA ($ DICELLOTRICHE) EXILIS, S. Moore, sp. nov. 
Frutex verisimiliter. Ramuli crebre foliosi, deinde glabrescentes, juventute ut 
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