314 Lxxiii. COMPOSITJE (OLIVEE AND hiern). [Oonyza. 



obsolete ; tube with a few scattered setiform papillae. Achenes thinly 

 pilose. Pappus uniseriate, barbellate, tawny. — A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 

 p. 390 ; (?) Erigeron abyssinicus, Schultz Bip. ex Schweinf. et Asch. 

 Enum. 284 (name only). 



xrile ]band. Abyssinia, Sckimper/ Abyssinian name Giirsdi. 



6. C. Vatkeana, 0. Sf H. Divaricately branched, puberulous, 

 herbaceous above. Branches striate, slightly flexuous above. Leaves 

 (upper) linear or spathulate-oblong, obtuse, mucronate, sessile, amplex- 

 icaul, scarcely auriculate at the base, entire, ranging up to 1^ by ^ in. 

 Heads nearly hemispherical, ^ in. diam., without rays, on slender pe- 

 dicels ranging up to J in., numerous, in ample corymbose paniculate 

 cymes. Involucral bracts narrowly lanceolate-subulate, taper-pointed, 

 puberulous, not purplish. Pappus somewhat sordid. — G, macrorhiza^ 

 Vatke, part, in Linnsea, 1875, p. 483 ; non Schultz Bip. 



Xrile band. Abyssinia, Schimper .' Among bushes, alt. 5,000 ft., 14th Sept. 

 1862. liigrQ n?ime Sicbhindday. 



7. C SBgryptlaca, Ait. ; DG. Prodr. v. p. 382. Annual or bien- 

 nial, erect, branched, lJ-3 feet high, hirsute or pilose with spreading 

 hairs. Stem terete, striate. Leaves linear-oblong or oblong-spathu- 

 late, coarsely toothed, pinnatifid or subentire, obtuse or acute, sessile, 

 amplexicaul or auriculate at the base, pilose or hirsute on both sides, 

 1-4 in. long by tV~1 ^- wide. Capitula hemispherical, many-flowered, 

 ^— I in. diam., on unequal and variable usually short pedicels in lax 

 corymbose or elongated terminal and axillary panicles. Scales of invo- 

 lucre pauciseriate, linear, acuminate, nearly equal, pubescent, ulti- 

 mately refiexed. Receptacle at first alveolate, more or less 

 fimbrilliferpus, convex, at length constricted at base. Ligule of ray- 

 florets obsolete. Achenes thinly pubescent. Pappus tawny or nearly 

 white. — G. lineariloha, DC. I. c. p. 385 ; Erigeron (Bgyjptiacum^ L. ; G. 

 dentata (Willd. *?) DC. I. c. ; G. echimdes, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 

 p. 388. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottei/ Roger! Richard! Sierra Leone, Afzdius! 



srortb Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth ! 



Wile &and. Abyssinia, Schimper ! and others ; Gallabat', Schweinfurth ! Unyoro 

 (590), i^eke and Grant ! Niamniam-land, and White Nile, Schweinfurth! Cordofan, 

 Kotschy ! 



Soutli Central. Eegion about Lake Tanganyika, Cameron ! 



Mozamb. Distr. (Form with longer leaf-segments) Moramballa, Dr. Kirk ! 



Erigeron exstipulatum, Schum. et Thonn. Guin. PI. 387, is given by DC. as a sy- 

 nonym of C. dentata, but with a mark of doubt. 



Extends eastward through India to China and Australia. Very variable in the 

 depth and breadth of the leaf-lobes. 



8. C. senegralensls, Willd. 8p. PL iii. p. 1928. Erect branched 

 herb, a foot and a half high or more. Stem and branches striate, pu- 

 bescent. Leaves obovate or oblong, membranous, pubescent, toothed, 

 ranging up to 2 in. long ; the upper ones sessile, amplexicaul, often 

 auriculate at the base. Capitula hemispherical, |-f in. diam , on pu- 

 bescent pedicels ranging up to IJ in., which are slender in flower but 

 become more robust in fruit, arranged in a corymbose leafy cyme. In- 



