566 LXXI, COMPOSITA. [Athrixia 
leaves linear-spathulate or sublinear, alternate, often crowded 
and tending to spread or to curve outwards, pointed, sessile, 
usually very narrowly decurrent, entire, densely scaberulous, 
uninerved, + to 1 in. long, yellowish-green on both faces; the 
margins narrowly revolute; capitula broadly campanulate, many- 
flowered, heterogamous, disciform, numerous, pedunculate, + to 4 
in. broad, terminating the branches, erect ; peduncles erect or 
ascending, scaberulous, ranging up to about # in. long, usually 
bearing one or a few bracts similar to but smaller than the 
leaves, rather slender; involucral scales multiseriate, narrowly 
linear-lanceolate, acute and attenuate, the inner rows glabrous 
or slightly puberulous on the back, uninerved chartaceous pallid, 
about + in. long, erect, the outer rows successively shorter 
puberulous on the back, more or less spreading or with recurved 
tips; flowers multiseriate, the outer rows female barren filiform 
inconspicuous, the corolla of the inner rows tubular, slender, sub- 
cylindrical, narrowly funnel-shaped upwards, + in. long, shortly 
5-lobed, of a whitish-violet colour, tender ; anthers tailed at the 
base, produced at the apex in lanceolate appendages; style- 
branches of the central flowers tender, exserted, truncate at the 
' apex, not appendaged; those of the barren flowers narrow, 
shorter; young achenes of the hermaphrodite flowers small, 
nearly glabrous, with a few short scattered setule; pappus 
white, uniseriate, + in. long, the sete few, nearly smooth, 
minutely scabrous above, very slender, fragile; receptacle 
depresso-convex, naked. 
Hvitia.—In stony pastures between Mumpulla and Nene ; fl. and 
young fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3416. 
This is nearly related to A. capensis Ker. 
The two following Nos. belong to different species ; they should be 
compared with Athrixia, but the specimens are too young for de- 
termination :— 
Punco ANDONGO.—In sandy-eartby moist meadows near Lombe ; 
not yet in fl. March 1857. No. 3378. 
Houiiia.—In rather poor sandy wooded meadows between Lopollo 
and Monino ; not yet in fl. beginning of April 1860. No. 3420. 
32. INULA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 330. 
Pentanema Cass. in Bull. Soc. Philom. (May) 1818, p. 74. 
Vicoa Cass. in Ann. Se. Nat., ser. 1, xvii. p. 418 (1829); Benth. 
& Hook. f., l.c., p. 334. Bojeria DC. Prodr. v. p. 94 (1836); 
Benth. & Hook. f., 1c. p. 331, 
1. L indica L. Sp. PL, edit. 2, p. 1237 (1763); O. Hoffm. in 
Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 26 (1896), 
Vicoa awriculata Cass. in Ann. Se. Nat., ser. 1, xvii. p. 418 (1829); 
O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 362. V. indica DC. in 
Wight, Contrib. Bot. Ind. p. 10 (1834). V. aurita DC. Prodr. 
v. p. 474 (1836). V. appendiculata DC. Prodr., .c. 
Loanpa.—An erect annual herb, with deep-yellow, homogamous 
capitula. In marshy clayey places, between Bemposta and Camama, 
