AntUhrixia.] Lxxiii. coMPOSiTiE (oliver and hiern). 357 



and shortly pubescent. — A. abysslnico^ Va.tke in Linneea xxxix. p. 493, 

 non Benth. et Hook. f. 



X^ile Iband. Abyssinia, Schimyer! 



42. INULA, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 330. 



Capitula heterogamous usually yellow and radiate ; florets of ray 

 ? , 1-multiseriate. Involucral bracts multiseriate, imbricate ; receptacle 

 plane or slightly convex, areolate or foveolate. Corolla of female fl. 

 2-3-dentate, sometimes minute ; of hermaphrodite fl. tubular 5-toothed. 

 Anther-base sagittate with long tails. Aclienes subtercte, 4-6-ribbed 

 or with the intermediate ribs equally distinct. Pappus 1-pluriseriate, 

 setasfew or copious, unequal. — Herbaceous orfrutescent with alternate, 

 simple, entire or serrate, more or less scabrid pubescent or tomentose 

 leaves. Capitula usually in terminal corymbose cymes ; occasionally on 

 short lateral branches. 



A large genus especially of temperate countries of the Old World. The following 

 species are confined to Africa. 



Shrubby. Outer florets ligulate, female. 



Capitula solitary. Leaves dilated subauriculate at the base 1. I. soynaJcnsis. 

 Capitida densely corynjbose. Leaves all narrowed and 

 shortly petiolate at the base. 

 Scales of the involucre of nearly equal length, densely 



shaggy 2. 7. Arhuscula. 



Scales of the involucre very unequal, somewhat hairy . 3. /. confertiflora. 

 Herbaceous. Florets all hermaphrodite, tubular. 

 Capitula corymbose. 



Scales of the involucre more or less acute 4.7. macrophylla . 



Scales of the involucre more or less obtuse 5. I. Mannii. 



Capitula in interrupted subglobose clusters 6. /. glomerata. 



1. X. somalensis, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitsclir.1S75,p 326. A 

 small shrub, about 8 in. high, with the habit of a Pulicaria. Stem 

 erect, branched ; branches woody, angular, pubescent above. Leaves 

 alternate, obovate-oblong, denticulate, punctate beneath, about 2 by 

 ?- in. ; base dilated, subauriculate, subsemiamplexicaul ; teeth and 

 apex mucronate; margin and midrib below pubescent-shaggy. 

 Capitula solitary, radiate, shortly pedunculate. Involucral bracts 

 obovate-lanceola.te, loosely imbricate, mucronulate, nearly equal ; the 

 accessory ones few. Receptacle areolate. Achenes tei*ete, appressedly 

 setose from the base to the apex. Setae of the pappus 15, barbellate. 



Iflle £and. Somali country, among the Ahl Mountains, Hildebrandt. 

 The description is taken from Vatke I.e. 



2. Z. Arbuscula, Velile in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. vol. xx. p. 03. 

 Shrubby ; branches terete, striate and puberulous below, villous lenfy 

 and tawny above. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, acute or subacute, mu- 

 cronulate, naiTowed at the base into short petiole, denticulate, pale- 

 tomentose beneath less so above, 'S-6 in. long by 1-2 in. wide, upper- 

 most smaller. Capitula hemispherical, many-flowered, 1 in. diameter, 

 on unequal villous pedicels ^-| in. long, in dense corymbose terminal 



