40 ICONES PLANTARUM. ee. 
Pirate 1144. 
ADELOSTIGMA SENEGALEN SIS, Benth. 
Composita, Tribe AsTEROIDE® ConyzEx. 
A. senegalensis, Beuth. sp.nov.; foliis breviter pinnatisectis, capitulis 
foliis floralibas cinctis, 
Has. Senegambia; marshy places, Fouta d’Hiallon, Heudelot, n. 677. 
Herba annua, erecta, rigidula, epee, Pi be parce ramosa, glab 
ramisque linels elevatis v. alis an angustis a foliis decurre abe percursis. 
Folia \inearia, acutissima, 1-2- Hlicarle; x sogmentis tenuibus subulatis distan- 
integerrime, exteriores par pubescentes, €1, numerosi, multi- 
Seriati, corollis tenuissimis pappo involucroque multo brevioribus, stylis 
longe exsertis tenuissimis fili longos divisis ; 
phroditi solitarii y, hk ear corollis longe an angusteque Mostar 5-dentatis. 
Anthere basi emarginate y. os oa alana sagittate, auriculis connatis. 
Stylus indivisus, obtusus, ex osus. de ss tea rum fcemineorum | 
lla, VEN ae setis tea leviter in pads coherentibus ; 
florum disci forte 
Fig. 1. Female floret. 2, Hermaphrodite floret. 3, Three of its stamens. 4. Summit 
of its style. ; 
I had long since indicated this as a new genus in Sir W. Hooker’s herba- 
rium, and alluded to it as. such in the ‘Ni iger Flora,’ p. 431, but when a Sescgbing 
4 ppeare m 
it for the ‘Gen ” it ap d to me closely alli 
recently published Adelostigma of Steetz, from Mozambique. An i taapeea 
of Peters’s original en, lent for the purpose by the Ro oyal Herbarium 
specim y t 
of Berlin, has shown that the two are strictly congeners, although specifically 
distinct.—G, BENTHAM 
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Prate 1145, 
ASEMNANTHE PUBESCENS, Zook, f. 
RvsBracez, Tribe Cutococcex, 
Asemnanthe, Hook. in Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii., 106. 
Has. Yucatan ; in moist woods near Ciapas, Linden (n. 1264 bis). 
Frutez tomentosus, ramulis gracilibus divaricatis erin Folia 1-2- 
poll. ion, opposita, breviter petiolata, elliptica, obtusa v. acu uta, membra- 
hacea, nervis obscuris, Stipule in terpetiolares, tinct subulate. Flores 
