Asintia.] Lx.aii. composite (oliver and hiern). 381 



of the ray-florets linear or oblong, sulphur-coloured, ^ in. long. Achenes 

 oblong, silky-hairy, not spotted, ^ in. long ; pappus shallow cup-shaped ; 

 setae obsolete. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, Nupe, Barter.' Prince's Island, Barter ! 



9. A. helianthoides, 0. Sf H. An erect hispid annual, 1-3 ft. 

 high. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, serrulate, acuminate, acute, 

 strigose-hispid, somewhat narrowed at and 3-nerved near the base, 

 1-4 by i-li in. ; petioles ranging up to | in. Heads campanulate, 

 ^^ in. long, pedunculate, in lax cymes ; peduncles ranginpf up to 

 1;^ in. Outer involucral scales linear, strigose, not foliaceous, shorter 

 than the florets. Ligules of the (8) ray-florets white or pale red. 

 Achenes obovoid-oblong, silky-viilous, indistinctly spotted, rounded at 

 apex with a short cup-shaped pappus and very short setae. — Corono- 

 carpus helianchoides, Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 393, non Bentli. ; G. 

 Gay anus, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 434, excl. syn. 



Vpper Guinea. Thonning ! Higer, 'Su^pe, Barter f Baikie! Quorra, Vogel! 

 IiO'wer Guinea. LoangD, Soyaux! 



10. A. Kotschyi, Benth. etHook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 372, ex Oliv. in 

 Tra7is.Linn.Soc.Lovd.xxix. 98. An erect, branched, scabrid, hispid annual, 

 1-4 ft. high. Leaves varying from lanceolate or oval to linear, mostly acu- 

 minate, serrulate or subentire, narrowed and shortly petiolate or rounded 

 subsessile and subamplexicanl at the base, 1-8 by ^-1^ in., scabrous 

 above, strigose beneath. Capitula hemispherical, ^-| in. long, shortly 

 pedunculate, solitary or a few near together overtopped by the upper- 

 most involucrate leaves ; peduncles ranging up to 1 in. Outer invo- 

 lucral scales foliaceous, more or less exceeding the florets. Ligule of 

 the ray-florets dark purple, ^-^ in. long. Achenes turbinate-oblong, 

 silky- villous, 1 in. long, not spotted, truncate at apex with a short cup- 

 shaped pappus, and 2 setae ranging from ^ in. downwards till they are 

 obsolete. — Blpterotlicca Kofschyii, Schultz Bip. in Flora 1842, p. 435 ; 

 Wlrtcjenia Kotschyi, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, iii. n. 1741 ; Gorono- 

 carpiis Kotschyi, Benth. Fl. Nigrit. 433 ; G. Prieureanus, Benth. l.c, 

 excl. syn. 



Upper Guinea. On the Quorra at Attah, Vogel/ (the flowers are noted as 

 yellow, but as the specimen is far advanced, those of the disk, not tliose of the ray, 

 may be referred to) ; Niger, Barter ! (flowers chocolate-coloured), Baikie .' Sonegambia, 

 Bidjcm ! 



Nile Iiand. Cordofan, Kotschj ! Cienkowf^ky ; Gallahat, Schwcinfurth .' AIjvs- 

 sinia, Schimiicr ! Q. Dillon! Upper Nile, Speke and Grant! Pctlwrick! and Murie! 

 V. Harnicr. 



Iiower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith ! Burton ! Angola, Monteiro ! Loango, 

 Soyaux ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Peters ; Hutton! Zambesi-land, Rovuma Kiver, 

 Melhr! Zanzibar, Kirk! Hildebrandt. 



Wirtgenia longcradiata. Hochstett. ex iSchweinf. et Aschers. Knum. p. 287, name 

 only, from Abyssinia, is unknown to us. 



62. MELANTHERA, Rohr. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 377. 

 Capitula at length subglobose, radiate (in Tropical African species) 

 yellow ; ray-florets pistillate or neuter. Involucre hemispherical ; 



