Ghilioceplialum.'] Lxxiii. compositje (olh^er and hiern). 337 



84. CHILIOCBPHALUM, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI ii 



p. 300. 



Capitula heterogamous, disciform, few-flowered (5-15), collected 

 in dense horizontal terminal cymes, outer or all the florets $ , 5 fl. 1-2 

 or wanting. Involucre small, ovoid, nearly equalling the florets, scales 

 2-3-seriate, obtuse. Receptacle naked. Corolla tubular of ? fl. nar- 

 row, mouth 3- fid, of ? fi- slightly wider above, 5-toothed. Anther- 

 base shortly tailed. Style-branches obtuse or truncate. Achenea 

 oblong, terete, glabrous ; pappus 0. — Herb, more or less lanate, with 

 erect stems from the crown of 1-3 ft. Leaves alternate decurrent. 



Confined to Abyssinia. 



Remarkable in this section in the absence of pappus. 



1. C. Sohimperl, BenthAnEk. Ic. PI 1137. Erect herb, 1-2^ ft. 

 high, somewhat branched at crown, simple or subsiraple above, hoary- 

 tomentose or lanate on underside of leaves, inflorescence and upper 

 part ; stem and branches below terete, finely striate. Leaves linear or 

 oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, mucronate, slightly narrowed below to 

 sessile base, upper slightly, lower distinctly, decurrent, -^1^ in. long 

 by ^— ^ in. wide, longitudinally veined and thinly covered ^vith short 

 crisped pubescence above, sometimes viscid-glandular. Capitula cam- 

 panulate- oblong, subsessile, ^ in. long, crowded in dense corymbose 

 lanate cymes, 1^-4 in. diameter. — Kralikia 7nyriocephala, Schultz Bip. 

 in Schweitif. Fl. ^thiop. p. 151. K. SohuUzii, Buchinger ex Schultz 

 Bip. in Schweinf. 1. c p. 151. 



Xrile Xiand. Abyssinia. Banks of high mountain streams in Semen, 10,000 ft., 

 fl. October, ScJrimper/ 



The generic name Kralikia has been appropriated for a genus of grasses by Cosson 

 and Durieu. 



35. PHAGNALON, Cass. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 304. 



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

 ? , central oo ^ • Involucre campanulate or subhemispherical, scales 

 oo-seriate, imbricate and scarious or membranous, outer gradually 

 shorter. Receptacle plane naked (or foveolate). Corolla of 2 fl. 

 tubular, filiform, minutely dentate, of ^ fl. tubular but slightly wider 

 above, 5-toothed. Anther- base scarcely or obscurely produced at base ; 

 apical connective ovate obtuse or retuse. Style-branches obtuse or 

 subtruncate. Achenes small; pappus of slender 1-seriate seta'. — Small 

 shrubs ascending or decumbent, more or less whitish tomentose or 

 glabrato. Leaves alternate narrow. Capitula of medium size, pedun- 

 culate, solitary or loosely corymbose or axillary. 



A small genus extending from the Atlantic Islands eastward intx) Asia. 

 White-lanate or -tomentose on under surface of leaves, &c. Peduncles often lonjf, 

 terminal and from upper axils only. 



Peduncles branched 1. P. fiypoleticum. 



Peduncles usually simple. 



■Involucre thinly woolly, scales acu'ce 2. P. Schweinf urthii. 



Involucre glabrous or nearly so, outer scales obtuse . . 3. P. nitidum. 

 YOL. III. 



