Wedelia.] lxxiii. compositje (olivrr and hiern). 377 



opposite, herbaceous and terete and more or less patently pubescent 

 above. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, narrowed above, broad n(;ar the 

 shortly petiolate base, strigose-hispid, serrate or remotely denticulate, 

 rugose- venose beneath, |-3^ by ^-l^ in. Capitula solitary on slender 

 peduncles at the extremities of the stem and branches, hemisphericaj, 

 ^ in. diam. ; peduncles ranging up to 2^ in. Scales of tlie involucre 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, strigose, ^^ in. long. Achenes angular, oblong, 

 glabrescent, tipped by a cup- shaped ciliate pappus, without seta?. 



Vpper Guinea. Warree, River Fonnoso, P. Beauvois ; Sierra Leone, Wiuwood 

 lleadc! Afzeliusl 



3. W. mossambicensis. Ollv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. 

 p. 97, excl. syn. An erect hirsute- hispid perennial. , Branches several 

 from a woody stock, subsimple, striate, herbaceous above, 1 ft. or moie 

 high. Leaves ovate or the upper lanceolate, acuminate, denticulate, 

 strigulose-hirsute, narrowed at the base to the very short petiole, 

 1-3J by ^-Ij in. Capitula solitary on slender peduncles, hemisphe- 

 rical, 1 in. diam. Outer scales of involucre lanceolate, strigose, ^ in. 

 long; inner smaller. Ligules oval-oblong, |-i in. long, longitudinally 

 streaked. Achenes of the disk-florets hairy or glabrescent, tipped by 

 a short cup-shaped pappus, as well as by 2 nearly smooth seta?. — 

 Wedelia, Sp. No. 1, T. Thorns in Speke, Journ., App., p. 638. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. 6° S. lat., alt. 3800 ft., Speke and Grant! 



4. W. l^enotriclie, 0. 8f E. A strigose-scabrid herb. Branches 

 opposite, terete. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, acuminate, denticulate or 

 entire, narrowed at the base into the short petiole, with prominent 

 veins beneath, 1-4 by ^-1 in. Capitula campanulate-hemispherical, 

 about "I in. diam., solitary, erect. Peduncles 2-3 in. long, 1 -headed 

 or sometimes branched below. Outer scales of the involucre foliaceons, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, J-| in. long, ^-^ in. broad, spreading; inner 

 ones smaller, coriaceous below, foliaceous above. Ligule of the ray- 

 florets oblong, golden, -J- J in. long, marked with 5-6 blackish lougi- 

 tudinal lines. Achenes of the disk-florets obconic, thick, doubly con- 

 vex, compressed or obsoletely 4-sided, tipped with two subulate bar- 

 bellate setae. Inner pappus paleaceous, short. — Menofriche sirigosa, 

 Steetz in Peters Mossamb. Bot. p. 475. 



Mozamb. Bistr. Rios de Sena, Peters/ Zanzibar Coast, at ]Mombassa, an 

 undershrub, March, 1876, Hildebrandt ! United with the following by Vatke. 



A specimen from Zambesi-land, collected by Dr. Kirk, with obtuser invoIucr;il 

 scales and the inner ones not foliaceous may perhaps belong to this species, 



6. IXT. abyssinica, Vathe in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, p. 327. 

 A shrub, a yard high. Stem erect, branched above, terete, strigose; 

 branches 16 in. long. Leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, repiind- 

 subserrate, scabrous above or shaggy on both surfaces, 3-neived, 

 shortly petiolate, 1^-3^ by f-J in. Capitula on long pedicels, 1-3 at 

 the extremities of the branches; ray-florets orange-coloured, female; 

 disk-florets yellow. Involucral iDracts ovate-lanceolate, rather obtuse, 

 strigose hairy, in about 2 rows. Scales of the receptacle oblong- linear, 



