V&monia.l lxxiii. composite (Oliver and hiern). 291 



barbed. — Gandidea senegalensis^ Ten. in Atti del R. Ace. Sc. Nap. iv. 

 p. 105, t. 1, 2. 



Upper Guinea. Abo, Nigritania, Barter ! ; Senegal. 

 Too near to this to justify specific separation is a plant of which we have a frag- 

 ment collected by Colonel Grant at Karague, 1° 42' S.Lat. near the Victoria N'yanza. 



59. V. Orantli, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 92, 

 t. 57. Branches finely snlcate early glabrescent. Leaves oblong, 

 lanceolate subacute, irregularly serrate or nearly entire, scabrid or 

 minutely hispid above, at first tomentose, at length glabrous beneath, 

 4-6 in. long, 1^2 in. broad, narrowed to a petiole of \-\ in. Capitula 

 1^ in. diameter, on peduncles ;J— J in., in terminal cymes of about 4, 

 hoary-tomentose ; intermediate bracts with an ovate acuminate ap- 

 pendix and distinct median nerve. Corolla not seen. Achenes 

 20-striate, striae often faint, shortly hispid with ascending tawny hairs. 

 Setae wholly free, finely pointed, scabrous. 



irile Ziand. Unyoro, Upper Nile, Speke and Grant ! 



Closely allied to V. Tenoreana, differing in the more distinct petiole, less serrate 

 leaves at length glabrous beneath, less acuminate involucral scales and more finely 

 pointed pappus-setae. 



60. V. adoSnslB, Sch. Bip. ex Walp. Bep. ii. p. 946. Upper portion 

 of erect stem terete, sulcate-striate, puberulous or minutely tomentose. 

 Leaves petiolate, oblong- or ovate-lanceolate, acute, unequally or den- 

 ticulate-serrate, scabrid or minutely hispid above, closely tomentose 

 beneath, 3-5 in. long, on petioles of ^—^ in. more or less. Capitula 

 1-2 in. diam., pedunculate, in terminal few- or many- headed lax 

 corymbose cymes ; bracts spreading or recurved, puberulous or mi- 

 nutely tomentose, appendix of intermediate bracts oblong- ovate or 

 elliptical, obtuse or broadly pointed, often mucronulate ; inner bracts 

 nearly or quite equalling the pappus. Corolla gradually narrowed into 

 the long tube. Achenes nearly equally 20-striate, tawny-silky ; pap- 

 pus oo-seriate, scabrous, subattenuate above. — Stengelia adoensis, Sch. 

 Bip.inHb. Schimp. Abyss. i. n. 318 ; Ascaricida ado'ensis, Steetzin Peters 

 Mossam. Bot. 358, adnot ; V macrocephalaj Rich Fl. Abyss, i. 377, t. 57 

 (nonLessing) ; Ascaricida Richardi, Steetz in Peters, 1. c. ; V. polymorphay 

 VatkeinLinnaea, xxxix, p. 467 (1875), var. a. adoensis, Vatke, I. c. 



Wile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper / Pullen ! Q. Dillon and Petit ! 



We have identified V. macrocephala, Rich, after comparison, with the solitary 

 imperfect specimen in the Richard Herbarium in the possession of Count Franque- 

 ville, to whose ready courtesy we are greatly indebted for the opportunity of esam- 

 ing M. Richard's types. The receptacle becomes at length, at least in some cases, 

 distinctly concave, as in V. Kotschyana. Dr. F. W. Klatt, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. v. 

 vol. xviii. p. 363, identifies specimens from Senegal, collected by Bidjem and Thierry 

 (No. 87) with V. macrocephala, A. Rich. 



61. V. shlrensls, O.SfH. Stem and leaves of F. adoensis, the close 

 tomentum on the under surface of the latter faintly reddish-brown 

 when dry, leaf-base rounded below and narrowly produced into the 

 petiole. Capitula 1-1^- in. diam., solitary or few in the forks or at the 

 extremities ; bracts scarcely equalling the pappus, tomentose oxtei-nally, 



