ICONES 



PLANTARUM. 



Plate 1451. 



SPHACOPHYLLUM KIRKII, OUv, 



crenatis 



CoMPOsiTiE, Tribe Inuloide^, Sub-tribe Bcphthalme^. 



B. Kirkii, OUv. (sp, nov,) ; fr-ntex v, arborescens, ramnlis terefcibus 

 ^odosis striatis tomenteHis, foliis alteruis petiolatis ovatis acutiusculis, 

 ^argine crcnato-lobulatis, supra scabrido-hirtis, subtus reticulatim 



^tigosis tomentellls, j^'^tiolis sajpe lobls parvis pauciaque 



^trinque instructiy, capitub's breviter peduiiculatis in fasciculia corym- 

 oisve terminalibus bubsessilibus folia vix superantibus dispositis, invo- 



^cro nemisphaerico, bracteis iniequalibus oblongis birtis rigidulis disco 

 ^ix aequilongis, palois receptaculi conduplicatis apice ssepius trifidis 

 jobo ccntrali subulato longiore, radii floribus circ. 15-18 ligulis ob- 



ongo-ovalibu8 recurvis luteis, acbseniis curvulis 5-costatis cum cos- 



^i^is mtermediis, costis basi confluentibas apice disco angustissimo 

 coronatis. 



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Has, Dzomba, Zambesia, 6-7,000 ft. (Sept., 1859), Sir J. Kirh 



^J^'"'^^ crassit]e pennse anserinsc, deraum glabrati. Folia 1-2 poll. 



Ca;pitula ^ poll, diam., in corjmbis 



»/ 77 °^^^. ^^^i*^ation wbicb I feel in referring tbis plant to Splaco- 

 P^'2/«MTO arises from tbe redaction of tbe short coroniform pappus 

 ^^aracteristic of previonsly known speciea of the genus, to a mere rim 

 marginal amiulus. In other respects the plant approaches ^hwo- 

 I Ppm ofricanus, & H., in which, however, there is an evident, 



^01" V. THIRD SKRIES. F 



^10-cephalis consesta. 



