Gcmyza.'] lxxiii. composit.e (oliver and hiern). 317 



denticulate at apex or acute, green or more or less crimson or purple, 

 glabrous. Receptacle narrow, convex, constricted at base, alveolate, 

 tuberculate, glabrous. Ligule of ray-florets obsolete. Anther-base 

 obtuse, unappendaged. Achenes pale, shining, with few appressed 

 microscopic hairs.* Pappus white. — Erigeron echioides, Schultz Bip. 

 (non Conyza echioides, A. Rich.), in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. 

 p. 146 ; G.variegata, Schultz Bip., f^.pratensis andy. silvestris^ Vatkein 

 Linnsea xxxix. p. 483. 



XTile Xiand. Abyssinia, 1853, No. 673, and (1863)1123, 1124, Schimper ! 



15. C. Newii, 0. 8c H. Extremities terete, puberulous or puber- 

 ulous-tomentose, with loose short patent hairs on the peduncles and 

 pedicels. Leaves alternate, oval-oblong or oblong- lanceolate, acute, 

 narrowed to the winged petiole, acutely serrate, glabrescent above, 

 thinly hairy beneath, 1-|— 2^ in. long. Capitula ^ in. diam., on pedicels 

 of ^^ in., in terminal corymbs 2-3 in. broad. Involucral scales sub- 

 membranous, subequal ; outer elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, 

 pubescent; inner oblanceolate or oblong,. Receptacle pitted, pits 

 with toothed or fimbriUiferous margins. Corolla of ray -florets tubular, 

 much shorter than style, with long loose papillae at the mouth : of 5 

 florets divided ^ of its length. Anther-base bidentate. Achenes 

 compressed ; setae of pappus cohering in basal annulus. 



Mozamb. Bistr. Kilima-njaro, Rev. C. New ! 



16. C. Keudelotii, 0. ^ H. Herbaceous? Branches terete, 

 striate, puberulous. Leaves ovate, shortly acuminate, acute, slightly 

 narrowed at base, distantly denticulabe, glabrate above, shortly 

 tomentellous beneath, petiolate, (upper) about 2J in. long by 1 in. wide ; 

 lateral arching veins and net- veins delicately marked beneath ; margins 

 slightly reflexed ; petioles about ^ in. long, somewhat dilated at base. 

 Capitula campanulate, many-flowered, ^— J^ in. long, on short pedicels, 

 in dense branched corymbose cymes 1-3 in. diam. Scales of invo- 

 lucre multiseriate, imbricated, obtuse ; inner linear, glabrous ; outer 

 oval-oblong, puberulous, successively shorter. Receptacle narrow, 

 plano-convex, scarcely naked. Ray-florets ligulate ; ligule about 

 equalling pappus. Achenes shining, scattered with minute setae. 

 Pappus reddish, scabrous. — Fluchea subumhellata^ Klatt in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. Ser. v. vol. xviii. 369. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! 



17. C hypoleuca, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. \. 391. Shrubby. Branches 

 terete, white-tomentose, leafy. Leaves lanceolate or linear- lanceolate, 

 acute or obtuse, mucronulate, narrowed at base into a short winged 

 petiole, seiTate, subcoriaceous, white-tomentose beneath, glabrous 

 above, 1^3 in. loug by ^J in. wide. Capitula subglobose, ^ in. diam., 

 on unequal pedicels ranging up to \ in. long, in dense corymbose 

 terminal cymes 2 in. wide. Scales of the involucre 3-4-6eriate, thinly 

 pubescent, ciliate, acute, inner linear-lanceolate, outer lanceolate, 

 shorter. Receptacle with filiform fimbrillae towards the centre. Ray- 

 florets with a distinct minute 2-3-dentate oblong ligule. Achenes 



