386 Lxxiii. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND hiern). [Chiizotia. 



4. Ct. villosa, Schulfz Bip. in Walp. Rep. vi. p. 158. An erect 

 villous annual, 9-15 in. higli, with spreading branches. Stem and 

 branches with spreading hairs. Leaves from elliptical to lanceolate, 

 narrowed at both ends, more or less serrate, sessile, subamplcxicaul, 

 •J-3 by |— IJ ill- Capitula hemispherical, ;^| in. diameter, pedicellate, 

 in an open corymbose or somewhat elongated leafy cyme; pedicels 

 slender, ranging up to 2 in. Onter involucral bracts lanceolate, obtuse, 

 exceeding the inner ones. Corolla-tube of disk-florets hairy below. 

 Achenes glabrous, y*- in. long. — A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 40G. 



KTile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! 



5. G. bidentoldes, 0. ^ H. A somewhat pubescent dull herb, 

 a foot or more high. Branches subterete, sulcate or ridged above. 

 Leaves mostly crowded on abbreviated shoots, ovate, 1-3 in. long, tri- 

 partite with the terminal lobe again tripartite or undivided, serrate or 

 incise-dentate ; petioles ^-1^^ in. long. Capitula hemispherical, about 

 ^ in. diameter, on short pedicels crowded in a dense subglobose cyme 

 l-J-3 in. wide or more. Involucral bracts in 2 rows of 4 in each row, 

 all similar, lanceolate-oblong, ^ in. long. Ray-florets neuter? ; ligule 

 J in. long. Achenes (immature) compressed. Pappus 0. 



Mozamb. Sistr. Manganja Hills, 500-3,000 ft. alt., Kirk ! 



%%. Sijnedrella nodijiora, Gaertn., a widely spread weed of American origin, has 

 been stated to occur in Tropical Africa, but we have not seen any specimen. 



^1. MICROLECANE, Sch. Bip.; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. ii. 384. 



Capitula heterogamous, radiate, yellow; ray-florets conspicuous, 

 1-seriate, ? . Involucre broadly campanulate, duplex ; outer series* of , 

 about 8 linear bracts alternating with and rather shorter than as many 

 ovate-lanceolate membranous-margined inner bracts which are inserted 

 upon a dilated receptacular disk so as to appear connate about one- 

 third their length. Paleae of receptacle equalling or exceeding invo- 

 lucre, linear-oblong, subobtuse, not conduplicate. Anther-base un- 

 appendaged. Achenes compressed, striate, with a minute ciliolato 

 pappus, exaristate. — Herbs with opposite pinnatisect leaves and 

 pedunculate loosely panicled heads of medium size. 



A monotypic genus. 



To this genus we provisionally refer, the plants — one, in fruit, collected by Col. 

 Grant at Gangi (see Oliv. in Trans, Linn. Soc. Lend, xxix, 99), the other, in early 

 flower, in Schimper's 1862-3 Distribution (No, 1386), They are both destitute ol 

 pappus or with but a narrow epigynous disk, but they do not exhibit any tendency to 

 the turbinate dilatation of the receptacular disk characteristic of M. abyssinica. In 

 other respects they have all the facies of Coreopsis. 



The latter plant is given as an elongated slender finely cut form of M. abyssinica 

 by Vatke in Linnaea, xxxix. pp. 497-8 (1875). 



1. BI. abyssinica, B^nth. etHook.f. Gen. Fl. ii. 384. Erect, 2 

 ft. high. Stem sulcate-striate, glabrous below, oppositely branched 

 above. Leaves ovate in outline, 1-3 in. long, thinly hispid-pubescent, 



