+50 ICONES PLANTARUM, 
Puate 1156. 
PLUCHEA PINNATIFIDA, [ook. af 
Composita, Tribe Invtoripem Piucuernen. 
P. (Oligocephalum) pinnatifida, Hook. J. sp. n. fruticosa, glutinosa, 
foliis pinnatifidis lobis. linearibus, capitulis paucis pedunculatis sub- 
corymbosis, involucri bracteis pluriseriatis angustis, 
Has. Soumali country, East tropical Africa, Capt. Playfair. 
Frutez ramosissimus, glutinosus, ceterum glaber, ramulis tenuibus 
us costam divisa in lobos paucos 
mi ores 
medio capitulo plures, corolla anguste tubulosa apice breviter 5-fida. 
Antherce issi en 
erecti, conniventes (v. connati ?). Achenia parva, villosula. Pappi 
Sete pauce, tennes, vix serrulate, 
In nearly 
bowels, anorexia, and debility after fevers. (D. Hanbury.) Captain 
ir’s specimens are far advanced, and not in a very good state, but 
the species is a very well marked one, allied only to the following 
P. frutescens.—G. Brnruam, 
Fig. 1. Female fiower. 2. Summit of its style. 3. Bristle of its pappus. 4. Her- 
maphrodite flower. 5. Three of its stamens, 6. Summit of its style. 7. Inner bract 
of the involucrum. 
‘a 
saenaeermamana ee eae ele na 
. 
