Cotula.] LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). ^09 



Cap., pars post., p. 162 (1800), which is represented in our Flora by some specimens 

 ^ in. high, with shortly sheathing petioles and shortly pedunculate heads ; Abys- 

 sinia, Schimper! a.d. 1850, n. 125 in Hb. Berol.; alt. 14,000 ft. 



5. C. crsrptocephala, Schulfz Bip. in Hh. Schintp. Abyss, ii. n. 

 1171. Procnmbent herb, often rooting by layers, glabrous except tlio 

 top of the peduncles, 1-6 in. high. Leaves opposite, bipinnatipartite, 

 1-4J in. long including the sheathing connate petiole, oval in outline' 

 lobes shortly linear, acute. Capitala ^ in. diameter, shortly pedun- 

 culate, overtopped by the leaves ; peduncles ^1 in. long, pilose-pubes- 

 cent above. Involucral bracts oval, obtuse, glabrous, margin membra- 

 nous, dark brown towards the apex. Female florets in one row. 

 Achenes compressed, glabrous, y^^ ^^- I^ngi obovate-oblong, emarginate 

 at apex. Receptacle flat ? Pappus 0. — A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 420. 

 srile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



76. SCHISTOSTEPHIUM, Less. ; Benth. et Hook f 

 Gen. PI. ii. 432. 



Capitula heterogamous, discoid ; outer florets $ with a tubular or 

 oblique rudimentary simple or 2-fid corolla. Involucre hemispherical 

 or turbinate ; bracts oval or lanceolate, imbricate, pluriseriate. Recep- 

 tacle naked or nearly so. Anther-base obtuse. Style-branches trun- 

 cate. Achenes more or ess obovoid, somewhat angled, glabrous ; 

 pappus 0. — Erect or decumbent leafy-stemmed herbs with alternate 

 pinnatifid incised or crenate-lobate leaves and terminal cor\Tnbose 

 cymes of yellow capitula. 



Confined to Tropical and Southern Africa. 

 Florets all hermaphrodite or the outermost very few female. 



Leaves pinnatisect, alternate \. S. keptcdobum. 



Outer florets female. Leaves coarsely toothed, those of the 



short sterile branches opposite 2. S. rotundifolium, 



1. S. beptalobam, Benth. et Hooh. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 432, Blan- 

 ches herbaceous, subterete or somewhat angular below the nodes 

 obsoletely pubescent. Upper leaves sessile or sometimes subpetiolate, 

 obovate in general outline, alternate, pinnatisect, appressedly pubescent, 

 ^1^ in. long, with about 2 pairs of lobes and a longer terminal one ; 

 lobes mostly oblong, apiculate, entire, or the terminal one with a 

 lateral lobule, margins revolute. Capitula hemispherical or turbinate, 

 ^-\ in. diameter, on pedicels not exceeding ^ in., in dense pedunculate 

 corymbose cymes. Involucral bracts narrowly lanceolate, appressedly 

 silky, mostly obtuse. Florets all hermaphrodite or very few of tho 

 outermost ones perhaps female. Pappus 0. 



XHozamb. Bistr. Zambesia, near Senna, Kirk ! 

 Occurs also in Natal. 



2. S. rotundifolium, Venzl ex Harv. Fl. Gap. iii. p. 169. A 

 robust slightly pubescent herb, 2-3 ft. high. Branches alternate, terete 

 below, obtusely angular above. Leaves roundishly ovate in general 

 outline, incise- dentate, ^-H in. long besides petiole of ^-\ in., .S-?. 



