Blumea.] Lxxiii. composite: (oliver and hiern). 323 



under J in. long, in pyramidal or elongate terminal panicles 1-3 in. 

 wide. Scales of involucre pauciseriate, very narrowly linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, pilose with loug white loose hairs, inner ones scarious, outer ones 

 rather shorter, ascending. Receptacle naked. Ray-florets oc, filiform; 

 ligule obsolete; disk-florets or oo, 5-toothed ; anthers tailed, tips 

 obtuse or retuse. Pappus sordid or nearly white, aniseiiate, obscurely 

 barbellate. Achenes glabrous or with few scattered hairs above. — 1». 

 dregeanoides, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. sect. ii. 633 (slenderer and 

 less pubescent form). B. runcinata^ Thoms. in Speke and Grant, App. 

 p. 637. B. Perrottdiana, DC. 1. c. 443. B. thyrsoidea, Sch. Bip. in Bot. 

 Zeit. 1866, 166. Conyza thyrsoidea, Pers., DC. Prodr. v. 389. C. 

 amoenay Link, DC. 1. c. 382. Blumea Wightiana, DC. 1. c. 435. B. 

 axillaris, DC. 1. c. 434. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Niger, Barter ! 



xrile Iband^ Abyssinia, Schimper ! Petit ! Unyoro, Sjpeke and Grant / Gazelle 

 River and Mittu-land, Sckweinfurth ! 



Iiower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 



HSozamb. Blstr. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt! 



Also in Mauritius, Tropical Asia and Australia ; a variable plant ; the smaller 

 forms often flaccid with slender petioles and remotely denticulate leaves. 



B. solidaginoides, DC. Prodr. v. 443, may belong to this species ; the description 

 agrees, but we have not seen a specimen. 



3. B. abysslnica, Sch. Bip. in Hh. Schimp. Abyss, ii. n. 1006. 

 Herb, simple or much-branched at stock, glabrous except capitula or 

 puberulous, 1-1^ ft. high; branches decumbent or ascending, terete, 

 glaucescent. Leaves alternate, linear or lower oblanceolate, obtusely 

 pointed or acute, rounded at the sessile clasping base, or lower ones 

 attenuate at base, denticulate or subentire, submembranous, ranging 

 up to 2^ in. long by f in. wide. Capitula hemispherical, oo-flowered, 

 ^— J in. diam., on slender unequal pedicels ranging up to 2 in. long, in 

 lax wide corymbose terminal panicles. Scales of involucre subquadri- 

 seriate, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, unequal, pubes- 

 cent with spreading hairs ; outer series successively shorter. Receptacle 

 naked. Ray-florets filif^orm, tubular ; mouth toothed ; style much 

 exserted with slender branches. Ligule obsolete or rudimentary, 

 minutely toothed. Anther-base shortly and acutely sagittate. Corolla- 

 teeth setulose. Achenes thinly setulose ; callus strong, perfonited. 

 Pappus obscurely barbellate, sordid, uniseriate. — A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 

 p. 392. Coiiyza Bovei, DC. Prodr. v. 381. B. Bovel, Vatke in Oesterr. 

 Bot. Zeitschrift, 1875, p. 3_4. Varfhemia, Schultz. Bip. in Hb. Schimp. 

 Abyss, iii., 1568, 1940, ex Vatke in Linnaea, xxxix. p. 485. 



mie Iiand. Abyssinia, Schimper/ Hiyebrmidt ; Ked Sea, Xon^/ 

 Occurs also in the Great Oasis, and Arabia, and extends to Affghanistan. 



27. LAGGERA, Sch. Bip. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 290. 



Capitula heterogamous, many-flowered, disciform ; outer florets ? 

 numerous, filiform; disk-florets tubular. Involucre campanulate or 

 hemispherical ; scales oc-seriatc, usually rather rigid, the outer fre- 

 quently recurved, ovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate to narrow-linear, 



