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Hab. Liberia, Bagwai ; B. H. Bunting, 110, 122. 



A tl'ailiDg berb climbing, where opportunity offers, among 

 lowly bushes of the scrub. The leaves may be as large as 

 5-6-5 X 1-5-2-5 cm., though usually they are smaller (25-35 x 

 7-10 mm.) ; they dry black above and greenish-grey below. 

 Each of the longer leafy branches ends in an elegant lax corymb, 

 usually of three or four capitula, which is 10 cm. in length in- 

 cluding the peduncle; proper peduncles 1*5-3 cm. long, and 

 linear bracts ± 4 mm. The often nodding capitula are 1-5 cm. 

 long, and as much broad. Leaves of the involucre 12 mm. long, 



I mm. broad; of the caly cuius 2-4 mm. long. The corollas are 



II mm. long, the slender tube, "2 mm. in its lower part, is 

 gradually enlarged till at the throat it has a width of '4 mm. ; its 

 lanceolate lobes are 1-5 mm. long. Immature achenes 4-5 .mm. 

 long, and about '5 mm. broad. Style-arms 4*5 mm., pappus 

 10 mm. long. 



This is so remarkably like the Indian G. sarmentosa DC. that 

 the two were at first surmised to be conspecific. The chief 

 differences lie in the somewhat longer capitula of G. Buntingii 

 with their more numerous involucral leaves, the shape of the 

 corollas and the longer style- arms. 



Crassocephalum libericum, sp. nov. Herbacea; caule 

 repente passim radicante rarifolioso glabro ramos erectos graciles 

 foliosos puberulos gignente, foliis parvis brevipetiolatis ovato- 

 lanceolatis vel oblanceolatis basi apiceque acutis obtusisve margine 

 dentatis vel denticulatis tenuiter membranaceis cito glabris ; 

 capituhs homogamis parvis terminalibus solitariis vel binis 

 cylindrico-campanulatis erectis bracteatis pedunculis propriis 

 elongatis filiformibus insidentibus ; involucri phylhs 12, inter se 

 insequilatis lineari-oblongis acutis margine membranaceis glabris ; 

 calyculi phyllis paueis filiformibus ab involucre longe superatis ; 

 flosculis luteis circa 30 involucrum plane excedentibus ; achaeniis 

 anguste cylindricis 5-costatis glabris ; pappi setis scabriusculis 

 albis. 



Hab. Liberia, Bagwai ; Bunting, 142. 



An elegant little herb about a span high. Leaves mostly 

 20-30 mm. long by 7-11 mm. broad, the upper ones gradually 

 diminishing in size and passing into the bracts ; petioles 3-6 mm. 

 in length. The corymbs are at most 10 cm. long, but sometimes 

 shorter ; their few bracts are filiform and ± 4 mm. long. Capitula 

 8x7 mm, Involucral leaves 7'5 mm. long, and •5-1-2 mm. 

 broad ; leaves of the calyculus about 2 mm. long. Corollas 8 mm. 

 long," the tube very slightly dilated in its upper part, and at the 

 throat only -3 mm. broad; lobes linear-lanceolate, '5 mm. long. 

 Style-arms 1 mm. long. The achenes, still immature, are 2 mm. 

 long, and are crow^ned by a pappus five times that length. 



In appearance this is like Q. ruhen'B {Gynura cermta Benth.), 

 but tery much diminished in size. It nearest affinity is. with 

 C. Proschii (Gynura Proschii Briq.), from -Barotseland, a plant 

 not represented in our herbaria ; but this, besides its nodding 

 alw^ays solitary heads, has those organs, according to the given 



