Anisoppapus.] lxxiii. composure (oliver and hiern). 369 



51. ANISOPPAPUS, Hk. et Am.; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. ii. 339. 



Ca-pitula heterogaraons, radiate, hemispherical ; ray-florets $ , 1 -2- 

 seriate. Involucral bracts pauciseriate, oval or oblong, unequal ; 

 palea9 folded, sheathing the disk-fiorets. Ligule spreading, 3-dentate. 

 Corolla of disk-florets tubular, 5-toothcd. Anther-base sagittate. 

 Achenes subterete, costate. Pappus coroniform of short free or nearly 

 free laciniate scales, with alternating longer narrow bristles or scales 

 simply unequal in breadth or but slightly irregular. — Scabrid or 

 pubescent erect herbs with alternate toothed leaves and lax terminal 

 cym'ose corymbs of yellow medium- sized capitula. 



The only species are represented in this Flora. 

 Leaves deltoid-lanceolate. Pappus slightly irregular or unequal . 1. A. africana. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate. Pappus of narrow and broad palea? . . 2. A. chincnsis. 



1. A. airicanus, 0. t^^ H. Erect herb, 3-4 ft. high, covered with 

 short crisp puberulence ; stem and branches subterete, striate. Leaves 

 deltoid ovate or oblong, obtuse, crenate, at base hastate, 1-3 in. long 

 by ^—1^ in- wide, uppermost smaller ; petioles ^-| in. long. Capitula 

 hemispherical, -^-f-l in. diameter without including the long ligules of 

 the yellow ray-fl., on distinct robust long peduncles, corymbose. Scales 

 of the involucre pauciseriate, unequal, subobtuse. Receptacle ^ in. 

 diameter, ccmvex, punctate, with long linear acute scales surrounding 

 the disk fl. Achenes setulose or glabrate. — Telekia africana^ Hook. fil. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 201. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, 7,000 ft. alt., Mann! 

 Zrile Iiand. Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth .' 



2. A. chinensis, Hook, et Am. Bot. Beech, p. 196. Strict erect 

 herb, 1 ft. high ; root tibrous ; stem simple below, terete, striate, shortly 

 pubescent, somewhat branched above ; branches subangular, with short 

 crisp pubescence. Leaves narrowly oval, obtuse and obtusely dentate, 

 cuneately narrowed into petiole, scabrid-puberulous, 1 J -2 J in. long by 

 \-^ in. wide ; petioles in length about the width of the leavesj gradually 

 dilating at base. Capitula hemispherical, ^-§ in. diameter, on distinct 

 rigid peduncles forming small lax corymbose terminal cymes. Scales 

 of the involucre pauciseriate, linear-oval, subobtuse, densely puberulous, 

 unequal. Receptacle about ^ in. diameter, with long scales, 1 in. long 

 between the fl. — Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 97, t. 64. 

 fig. B. Verhesina chinensis, L., DC. Prod. v. p. 618, fide Benth. in Fl. 

 Hongk. 180. 



Sirile Iiand, Madi. Sandy soil and near burn, common. Flowers yellow. 

 {Poloa? sp. Speke, Journ., App. p. 638.) Speke and Grant! 

 Occurs also in South China. 



52. ODONTOSPERMUM, Neck.; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. ii. p. 340. 

 Capitula heterogamous, radiate, hemispherical or broadly carn- 

 panulate ; ray-florets $ , in 1 or 2 rows ; disk-florets § , fertilo. Invo- 

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