380 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [Aspilia. 



abont equalling the disk-florets. Lignles of (20) ray-florets yellow, 

 oblong, ^f in. long. x\cbenes (immature) linear, strigose. Pappus 

 cup-sliaped ; setae obsolete or very short. — Coronocarpus heliantlwides, 

 Bentli. in Hook. Fl. Nigrit. p. 434, non Schum. et Thonn. 



Upper Guinea. Accra, Fogel ! Nigei-, Baikie ! Old Calabar, Mann ! Monteiro ! 

 Iffile Xiand. Djur-land, iSchiocinfurth I Niamniam-land, Schwewfurth ! 



5. A. Smithiana, 0. ^ H. Scabrous annual, 1-^2 ft. high or 

 more, with straggling branches. Leaves oval or ovate, usually obtuse, 

 remotely serrulate, narrowed at the base, shortly petiolate, 1-2^ by 

 ^-IJ in., strigulose. Capitula campanulate in flower, hemispherical 

 in fruit, :J— | in. long, pedunculate, in a leafy paniclod cyme ; peduncles 

 ranging up to 1 in. Outer involucral scales linear- lanceolate, herbace- 

 ous, not foliaceous, strigulose or scabrid, shorter than the florets. 

 Achenes turbinate-oblong, silky-villous, indistinctly spotted, ^ in. long, 

 rounded at apex with a short narrow cup-shaped pappus and 2 very 

 short or obsolete setae. 



Upper Guinea. Dahomey, Burton / 

 ILower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! 



6. A. aug'ustifolia, 0. 8f H. An erect much branched scabrous 

 annual, 2-3 ft. high. Leaves linear, narrowed to an obtuse apex, dis- 

 tantly serrulate, narrowed to a sessile base, 1-5 by |~^ in. Capitula 

 campanulate in flower, hemispherical in fruit, -^ in. long, pedunculate, 

 in a lax leafy corymbose cyme ; peduncles ranging up to 4^ in. Outer 

 involucral bi'acts oblong, obtuse, herbaceous, not foliaceous, entire, 

 strigose -scabrid, |— J in. long ; inner paleaceous. Ligule of the ray- 

 florets oval-oblong, bifid at apex, ^-^ in. long, straw-coloured. Achenes 

 turbinate-oblong, silky-villous, spotted with dark blotches and minute 

 reddish ones, rounded at apex with a narrow tubular cup-shaped 

 pappus and 2 short horn-like setas. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, Nupe, Barter! 



7. A. linearifoUa, 0. SfH. A branched hispid herb. Branches 

 patently hispid above. Leaves linear, acute or subacute, scarcely nar- 

 rowed at the subampiexicaul sessile base, distantly serrulate, strigose- 

 scabrous especially above, 1-4 by yV-3 i"- Capitula campanulate- 

 hemispherical, f in. long, pedunculate, in a lax open cyme. Outer 

 involucral scales herbaceous, not or scarcely foliaceous, ovate-oblong, 

 acute, strigose, -|-f in. long. Ligules of the raj^-florets oblong-obovatf , 

 •|— f in. long. Achenes (immature) linear-oblong ; setae obsolete or 

 very short. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, Baikie ! 



8. A. rudis, 0. Sf H. A coarse rigid very hispid herb, 4 ft. high. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate distantly serrate, strigose- 

 scabrid above, very hispid below, rounded at the base, very shortly 

 petiolate, 1^-4! by ^1^^ in. Capitula campanulate, f in. long, shortly 

 pedunculate, in small dense terminal cymes, exceeded by the involu- 

 crate uppermost leaves ; peduncles ^ in. long, slender. Outer 

 involucral scales linear, acute, not exceeding the florets, hairy. Ligule 



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