S18 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [Conyza. 



slightly pubescent. Pappus sordid. — Urigeron hypoleucuSy Schtiltz Bip. 

 in Schweinf. et Asch. Enum. 284. 

 xrile ]«and. Abyssinia, Petit ! 



18. C. incana, WilU. ; BG. Prodr. v. p. 388. Shrubby below, 

 hoary- tomentose, 1-2 ft. ; bran«_!ilets terete, leafy above. Leaves scattered, 

 linear, often with 1-2 prominent lateral teeth, apiculate or strongly 

 mucronate, sessile, ^1 in. long, margins strongly revolute. Capitala 

 campanulate, ^ in. long, many-flowered, shortly pedicelled, in dense 

 corymbose or globose terminal cymes 1-2 in. wide. Scales of the 

 involucre linear, 1-nerved ; outer shorter, tomentose subobtuse ; inner 

 nearly glabrous, acute. Receptacle convex, narrow, constricted at 

 base, shallow-foveolate, with denticulate margins to the pits. Ligule 

 of ray- florets equalling the tube in diameter and about ^— ^ of its 

 length, 2-3-dentate. Achenes pubescent, at least when young. Pap- 

 pus tawny. — Erigeron incanum, Yahl, Symb. i. 72 ; (7. leucophylla^ 

 Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, ii. 1097,1295 ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, 

 i. p. 386 ; Erigeron leucophyllus^ Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Fl. ^thiop. 

 i. 147. 



xrile liand. Abyssioia, Schimperf 



19. C. pyrrhopappa, Sch. Bip. in Hh. Schimp. Abyss, sect. i. 10. 

 Herb, probably several feet in height ; branches terete, striate, scabrid- 

 pubescent or -puberulous. Leaves narrow- eUiptical or -oblanceolate, 

 acute or at least mucronate, narrowed to a sessile narrow base or 

 petiole narrowly winged, entire or with 2-4 apiculate large distant 

 teeth on each side, scabrous above, pubescent beneath, 1-3 in. long, 

 J-| in. broad. Capitula campanulate, :J— | in. broad, at length more 

 or less divergent, on short slender pedicels in often rather dense corym- 

 bose panicled clusters, together ^1 ft. across. Involucral scales linear- 

 lanceolate acute, pubescent and sessile-glandular on the back ; outer 

 shorter. Receptacle minutely tubercled. Ligule equalling the tube 

 in width, usually shorter than the style, often bidentate. Anther-base 

 obtuse. Achenes compressed, hairy. Pappus 1-seriate, barbellate, 

 reddish or tawny. — A. Rich, Fl. Abyss, i. 389. Erigeron pyrrliojpappusy 

 Sch. Bip. ex Schw. Fl. ^thiop. p. 147. 



irile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper! 

 Abyssinian name Tanketam. 



20. C. strlcta, WilU. 8p. PI. iii. p. 1922. Erect herb, woody 

 below, of 1-2 ft. or frutescent, branched and leafy above ; branches 

 shortly pubescent, terete, striate. Leaves linear- spathulate, pinnatifid 

 or dentate, apex and lobes usually mucronulate, hispid-pubescent, 

 sessile, clasping at base, ^1 in. long. Capitula widely campanulate, 

 many-flowered, ^-^ in. high, ^ in. wide, on short slender pedicels, in 

 dense corymbose cymes. Scales of involucre linear-lanceolate, 1-nerved, 

 pubescent outside, more or less acute. Receptacle globose, foveolate, 

 naked, narrow. Ray- florets with a linear ligide equalling the tube in 

 length and breadth, shorter than the style, sometimes obsolete. An- 

 ther-base obtuse. Achenes somewhat pubescent. Pappus tawny or 

 subrufous. — Erig&ron Schimperi, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Fl. .^thiop. 



