Wedelia] LXXI. COMPOSITE. 577 
repand ; capitula heterogamous, radiate, campanulate, about 2 in. 
long, on short or very short peduncles, 3 to 1 together, terminal ; 
peduncles slender, strigose, ranging up to $ in. long; involucral 
scales sub-biseriate, oblong, free to the base, the outer ones the 
longest, about } in. long, strigose on the back, with ovate sub- 
foliaceous tips, subacute or pointed; the inner ones dry, rigid, 
with ciliate ovate pointed tips, about + in. long; flowers yellow ; 
ray-florets uniseriate, ligulate, female, fertile, 2 in. long when 
straightened, the ovary ;4, in. long, somewhat hairy, tipped with 
a short coroniform unequally fimbriate pappus; the ligula oval, 
glabrous, nerved, minutely dentate at the tip, } in. long, clawed at 
the base, spreading; disk-florets hermaphrodite, fertile, ;°, in. long; 
the corolla ;%, in. long, shortly 5-lobed, glabrous ; the anthers partly 
exserted, dusky, shortly appendaged at the apex, obtuse at the 
base, ecaudate ; the style-branches short, just exserted beyond the 
anthers shortly appendaged, hairy; the ovary ;4, in. long, slightly 
pilose, subcompressed, ribbed, oblong, surmounted by a short coro- 
niform fimbriate pappus, without aristz ; scales of the receptacle 
folded, embracing the disk-florets, scarious, + in. long. 
HuiLia.—In herbaceous places at the outskirts of forests, from 
Lopollo towards Jau ; fl. March 1860. No. 3566. 
3. W. albiflora Hiern, sp. n. 
A perennial, erect, branched herb, 3 ft. high; stems numerous, 
subterete ; branches hispid or scabrid, opposite, erect-patent, 
tawny-brown, rather slender; leaves opposite, ovate or lanceolate, 
acuminate acute or subobtuse at the apex, obtuse or abruptly 
narrowed at the hispid shortly petiolate or subsessile base, rigidly 
membranous, scabrid, shortly hispid-strigose with pale rigid hairs 
arising from a papilliform base, dull green above, paler beneath, 
distantly serrulate and narrowly revolute on the margin, 1 to 4 
in. long by + to 2 in. broad, spreading ; capitula heterogamous, 
campanulate-oblong, 3 in. long, on hispid peduncles ranging up 
to 1} in. long, terminal and sub-terminal, forming compound 
terminal open broad corymbose cymes; involucral scales pauci- 
seriate, imbricate, + to 1 in. long, oval-oblong, obtuse, concave, 
free to the base or nearly so, the outer ones hispid on the back, 
occasionally bifid, the inner ones rigidly scarious, embracing the 
outer florets; flowers white; ray-florets radiate, uniseriate, 
female; the ligule obovate-oblong, 3-nerved, bi-lobed at the apex, 
clawed at the base, ;4, in. broad, together with the claw 1} in. 
long, the lobes rounded; disk-florets pauciseriate, embraced by 
the folded scales of the receptacle ; the corolla regular, shortly 
5-cleft, $ in. long; anthers dark-brown, equalling the corolla- 
tube, shortly appendaged at the apex, minutely and obtusely 
sagittate at the base ; style-branches 2, shortly exserted, arching, 
diverging, furnished with small narrow appendages at the apex, 
papillose ; young achenes somewhat compressedly angular, pilose 
at least along the angles, pappus coroniform, glabrous except the 
ciliate-setulose apex, without aristz. 
