Chrysanthellum,] Lxxiii. composit^e (oliver and hiern). 395 



1. C. procuxnbens, Pers. Syn. PL ii. p. 471. Glabrous annual, 

 procumbent or erect, usually much branched, ranging up to a foot in 

 height. Leaves alternate, petiolate, decompound-pinnatipaitite, rang- 

 ing up to IJ in. besides the subamplexicaul petiole which ranges 

 nearly up to the same length, segments linear or lanceolate, apiculate. 

 Capitula |— ^ in. diameter, on pedicels ranging up to 1| in., numerous, 

 cymose. — DC. Prodr. v. p. 630, with synonymy ; C. Sivartzii^ C. senega- 

 lense, and C indicum, DC., I.e., p. 631 with their synonymy. Hinfer- 

 Imhera Kotschyij Schultz Bip. in Hb. iCotsch. Nub. n. 175, and in Hb. 

 Schimp. Abyss, ii. n. 1183, iii. n. 1630. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ; Quorra at Patteh, T. Vogel ! Niger 

 at Mupe, Barter J Baikie! Dahomey, Burton! Cape Coast, Tedlie. 



xrile Iiand. GaA\ahdit, iSchweiiifurth! ^h.\teW\\Q, Petherick! Binder. Corilofan, 

 Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper J Hildebrandt ; Unyoro, Spike and Grant.' Djur-land, 

 Schweinfurth ! 



A common weed extending from East India to the West Indies and Brazil. 



Chrysanthellum abyssinicum, Schultz Bip. ex Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 284, 

 name only, from Abyssinia, is unknown to us. 



71. JAUMEA, Pers. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 397 ; (Hy;peru 

 cophyllum, Steetz, Benth. et Hook. f. I.e.) 



• Capitula heterogamous (or radiate) ; florets tubular. Involucre 

 campanulate or turbinate ; bracts pauciseriate rather broad submem- 

 branous imbricate, outer shorter. Receptacle naked. Anther-base 

 obtuse. Style- branches obtuse or truncate Achenes oblong or cu- 

 neate, angled ; pappus of numerous nari'ow or aristiform paleae, apex 

 minutely uncinate (in our species). — Herbs or undershrubs with oppo- 

 site linear or oblong-lanceolate entire leaves and solitary terminal long- 

 pedunculate capitula of medium size. 



A small American genus. We follow the " Genera Plantarum" in referring our 

 plant to this genus. Our material for comparison is very imperfect, but the only 

 African species has a near general resemblance to Jaumea {ChiBthymenia) pcduncularis, 

 (H. et A.) 



1. J. compos! tarum, Benth. et HooJc.f. Gen. PL ii. p. 397. An 

 erect glabrous herb, 2 ft. or more high, simple below, once trichoto- 

 mousl^ branched above. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or scarcely 

 acute, sessile, semi-amplexicaul, H-5 by J-l^ in., closely pellucid- 

 punctate; margins minutely scabrid-ciliate. Capitula ^^-l in. diameter, 

 homogamous ; peduncles 3 together, bibracteate about the middle, 

 ^2~^2 ^^- Involucral bracts obtuse, glaucescent ; inner lanceolate, 

 ■^ in. long ; outer oval, ^ in. long. Florets f-| in. long, corolla saffron- 

 coloured. Aristae of the pappus 18-20, fi-ee, attenuate from the 

 sparsely setulose base, glabrous and mostly hooked at the apex, un- 

 equal, the longer about as long as the achenes. — Ilypericophyllum com- 

 positaricm, Steetz in Peters Mossamb. Bot. p. 499, t. 50. 



Mozaxub. Bistr. Boror, Rios de Sena, Peters. Zanzibar, Burton! 



72. Tagetis erecta, Linn., a South American plant, occurs in Abyspinia and other 

 parts of Tropical Africa. 



