Dichrocephala.] Lxxiii. coMPOSiTiE (Oliver and hiern). 303 



lucres, in terminal often divaricate panicles. Corolla of ? fl. white 

 of 5f violet or purple. 



A small genus of the Old World Tropics. 



Corolla of ? florets tubular 1. D. latifolia. 



Corolla of ^ florets rotate-campanulate 2. i?. chrysanthemifolia. 



1. D. latiibUa, BO. Prodr. v. p. 372. Erect or ascending herb 

 ^5 ft. high, asperulous or minutely setulose; stem and branches 

 angular. Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, acute or obtuse, terminal lobe ovate 

 or ovate-rotundate, or lateral lobes wanting, dentate, sessile or attenuate 

 at base into alate or slender petiole, membranous, 1^3 in. long ; upper 

 smaller. Capitula subglobose, many-flowered, ^— J in. diameter, on 

 unequal pedicels ranging up to 1 in. long, in lax terminal divaricate 

 panicles. Scales of involucre subbiseriate, obovate or broadly ellip- 

 tical, membranous-margined, fimbriate-ciliate, nearly glabrous. Re- 

 ceptacle depresso- convex, glabrous, papillose-pitted, constricted below, 

 ■^ in. broad. Corolla of ? fl. tubular 2-3-dentate ; of 5 fl. campanu- 

 kite constricted below. Achenes obovate, compressed, glabrous or 

 very nearly so. — D. ahyssinica, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, i. 

 176, ii. 949, non i. 87, nee iii. 1847. 



Abyssinian names Kulle gab, Kulegale. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, 7-8000 ft. alt., Mann! 



ITortb Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth ! 



xrile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper I Q. Dillon, Plowden ! 



Mozamb. Dlstr. East A&ican chain, alt. 4700 ft. Speke and GraiU ! 



Occurs also in the Levant, the East Indies and Hong-Kong. 



2. 9. cbrysantbemlfoUa, BO. Prodr. v. p. 372. Erect herb, 

 1-5 ft. high, simple or branched above; stem and branches terete, 

 obscurely striate, shortly hirsute or shining and glabrate below. 

 Leaves oblong or obovate, incise-lyrate, obtuse or acute, dentate with 

 acute or mucronate teeth, sessile or lower contracted into widely alate 

 petioliform auriculate-amplexicaul base, membranous, appressedly 

 hairy ; lower 1^-4 in. long, upper shorter. Capitula globose or glo- 

 bose-oblong, many-flowered, ^-^ in. diameter, on unequal pedicels 

 ranging up to 1^ in. long, in lax terminal divaricate panicles. Scales 

 of involucre 6-8, herbaceous, pubescent, ovate or elliptical or oblong, 

 with membranous fimbriate-ciliate margins. Receptacle turbinate or 

 colunmar, closely tuberculate, glabrous. Corolla of female fl. rotate- 

 campanulate, 3-4.fid. Achenes compressed, glabrous, obovate. — B. 

 dbyssinica, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, i. 87, iii. 1847, non i. 

 176 nee ii. 949 ; B. ohlonga^ Hook. f. in Joum. Linn. Soc. vi. 12 (form 

 with more oblong capitula) ; B. macrocephalay Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. iEthiop. 145. 



Abyssinian name KtUlegab. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, top of peak, Mann! Cameroon Mountains 

 7-8000 ft. alt. Mann ! 



KTile Ziand. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! HUdebrandt ! 

 Occurs also in East Indies and Madagascar. 



