Mkroglossa.] Lxxiii. composite (oliver and hiern). 309 



short pedicels, densely crowded in many-headed wide corymbose ter- 

 minal cyn^es. Scales of involucre 3-4-seriate, puberulous, rather 

 obtuse, ciliolate ; inner linear-oblong, scarious, 1-nerved ; outer shorter 

 oblong. Receptacle with a few setiform firabrillag. Ray linear, 

 equalling twice the tube in wddth, notched at apex. Hermaphrodite 

 fl. oo . Style-tips ovate-lanceolate, papillose. Pappus pale-tawny. 

 trpper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, 7000 ft. alt., December-January, Mann ! 



2. M. Tolubllis, DC. Prodr. v. p. 320. A small shrub or scan- 

 dent, reaching 3-6 ft. or more ; branches terete, sulcate, puberulous. 

 Leaves ovate, acutely acuminate, obtuse at base, subentire, membran- 

 ous, puberulous or subglabrate, petioled, 1| 1< | in. long by J-2^ in. 

 wide ; petioles J in, long, dilated at base. Capitula campanulate | in. 

 long, on short slender pedicels in dense corymbose terminal cymes 

 2-8 in. wide. Scales of involucre 3-4-seriate, puberulous, subacute ; 

 inner narrowly oblong-lanceolate, outer narrowly ovate. Receptacle 

 naked. Ray-fl. ligulate ; ray slender, equalling the tube in width. 

 Pappus more or less reddish. — M. petiolaris, DC. I.e. p. 321. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, Vogel/ Barter/ ISierra Leone, Don! Smeathman ! 

 Afzelius ! Fernando Po, Vogel ! 

 xrile Xiand. Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth ! 

 Mozamb. Blstr. Zanzibar Island ! Manganja hills, Dr. MeUer! 

 Occurs also in Madagascar and in the East Indies. 



3. xn. sessilifolia, VG. Prodr. v. 320. Glabrous climbing or 

 twining shrub ; shoots flexuose terete striate. Leaves elliptical or 

 narrow-elliptical, acute, mucronate or apiculate, narrowed to the 

 minutely sagittate-auricled base, entire, 2-3 in. long, 1 in. broad, mem- 

 branous. Capitula campanulate, ^ in. long, subsessile in small sub- 

 globose pedunculate terminal and axillary clusters forming ample 

 terminal sometimes elongated panicles ^-^ ft. wide. Scales of invo- 

 Incre subtriseriate linear acute, with darker midrib ; outer shorter. 

 Ray linear erect. Achenes hirsute or glabrate, dark brown, obscurely 

 costate, with white basal callus. Pappus rather dense, 1 -seriate, 

 reddish, setae scabrid. 



TTpper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Mozambique, Forbes! (specimen so labelled in Herb. Kew. 

 possibly by mistake). 

 Also in Madagascar. 



4. M. ang-olensls, 0. § E. An erect shrub, 3-5 ft. high. 

 Branches ascending, striate, terete, pubescent, leafy. Leaves linear- 

 elliptical, acute at apex, attenuate to a sessile or subsessile base, 

 puberulous above, pubescent below, margins somewhat revolnte, 1-3 

 by |^-| in. Heads numerous, campanulate or at length hemispherical, 

 l-^ in long, on slender pedicels of yV-J ^^-^ ^^ dense corymbose cymes 

 of 2-6 in. diameter ; bracteoles filiform, small. Involucral bracts nar- 

 row acuminate, the inner ones linear, the outer lanceolate, pubescent 

 outside. Flowers yellow. Ligules narrowly linear, exceeding the 

 style. Achenes somewhat hispid. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola, Monteiro! (100 miles inland from Ambriz). 



