34 ICONES PLANTARUM, 
Fig. 1. Involuere and receptacle, gy lrg section. 2. Female floret. 38. Summit = 
its style. 4. Hermaphrodite sterile floret. 5. Three of its stamens, 6. Summit of it 
style ck tach Vike ae bal the branches usually cohere to the end. 7. Achene of the 
female florets with it: 
The € genus is closely allied to Wetee from the same country, differing 
chiefly in the pappus and in the habit which is not unlike that of some 
uro a “ Centauree or South African Geigeria or Gymnarr. 
Bent 
PiatTe 1137. 
CHILIOCEPHALUM SCHIMPERI, Benth. 
ce Tribe InvLoipExZ GNAPHALIER. 
ca 
limbo elongato xapente apice b-fido. Anthere basi sagittate, auriculis caudis 
brevibus subramosis appendiculatis. an Sone hermaphroditorum rami 
subteretes, apice truncati. Ackenia oblonga ; pappus 0 i Eertdy 
erecta cano-tomentosa, habitu Achyrocinis. Folia alterna, integra. Capitula 
feria, corymbosa 
C. Schimperi, Bentz, single species. 
Has. Abyssinia; banks of elevated mountain streams in Saman, 
Schimper. 
Caules e basi dura (an perenni P) erecti, ges ps 1-2-pedales, laxe- 
cano-tomentosi v. sublanati. Folia sessilia y anguste decurrentia, lanceolata: 
v. anguste oblonga, acuta y. obtusa, inte egerrima, seepe undulata, supra tenuiter- 
tomentosa v. demum glabrata, subtus cano-tomentosa, majora 1-2-pollicaria.. 
Ca, ce vix lineam longa, in numera, densissime cymosa, cymis }~} poll. 
tro plurimis interdum numero rosis in corymbum tau 2—4-poll. dia- 
pe confertis. Jneoluera canescentia.—G, BENTH 
Fig. 1. Flower-head much magnified. 2. Involuere and receptacle, longitudinal secti 
3. Female floret. 4. Summit of its red the branches re Tepresented too thick and too soca 
Hermaphrodite floret. 6. Three of its stamens, not sufficiently tailed 
7. Style. 
