400 Lxxiii. COMPOSITE (OLIVBR AND hiern). [^SchistostepMum. 



nerved, truncate or broadly wedge-shaped at base, alternate but those 

 of the shortened sterile branches opposite. Capitula hemispherical, 

 about I in. diameter, on slender pedicels ranging up to | in., in a 

 rather dense hemispherical or ovoid cyme. Involucral bracts narrowly 

 oblong-lancolate, mostly acute, falling rather short of the florets. 

 Marginal florets female. Pappus 0. 



Soutb Central. Not yet recorded from Tropical Africa ; but there is a speci- 

 men in the Kew herbarium from New Caledonia, Drakensbergen, about 23J° S. Lat., 

 collected by (Bolus n. 3007) McLea I 



Occurs also in Kafirland and Natal. 



77, ABTEMISIA, L. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 435. 



Capitula heterogamous, discoid ; outer florets pistillate, tubular. 

 Involucre ovoid or campanulate, bracts pauciseriate, subequal, imbri- 

 cate. Receptacle naked or nearly so. Anther-base entire or 2-den- 

 tate. Style-bi-anches truncate or penicillate. Achenes narrowly 

 ellipsoidal in our species ; pappus 0. — Herbs or shrubs with 2-3-pin- 

 natisect (simply incised or entire) alternate leaves and small often 

 pendulous capitula in racemose panicles (in A. dbyssinica), 



A large genus chiefly confined to the Northern hemisphere. 



1. A. abysBlnlca, Schultz Bip. in Hh. Schimp. Abyss, iii. n. 1862. 

 Branches two or more from the crown of the root, herbaceous above, 

 erect, simple or nearly so, 1-2 J ft. high, glabrate or somewhat pubes- 

 cent. Leaves decompound in capillary divisions, ovate or oval in 

 general outline, ^2 in. long besides the petiole which is short in the 

 case of the upper and elongated in the lower leaves, glabrate or some- 

 what hoary-hairy. Capitula subglobose, ^V-J ^' diameter, shortly 

 pedicellate, in short racemes with a leaf at base often about equalling 

 them, arranged in an elongated thyrsoid cyme. Involucral bracts oval 

 obtuse nearly glabrate or somewhat pubescent. Marginal florets 

 female, central ones hermaphrodite, fertile. Achenes obscurely striate, 

 without pappus. Receptacle convex, naked. — A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 

 p. 420. 



irUe &and. AhjssimA, Schimj>er / Q. Dillon and Petit / 



Schweinfurth in Beitr. Fl. JEthiop. p. 142, gives a variety eriocephala of Schultz 

 Bip. with more cottony heads ; also a species A. Sckimperi, Schultz Bip. from Abyssinia 

 without description. \ . , « . . „ <, -r^.,. 



There are in the Kew Herbarium specimens m leaf without flowers from Kilima- 

 njaro, collected by Dr. Kirk and Rev. C. New, and also from Tropical South Africa, 

 collected by T. Baines, all of which resemble Artemisia Afra, Jacq. 



78 GONGROTHAMNUS, Steetz ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. ii. 437. 

 Capitula homogamous, discoid ; florets ^ . Involucre campanulate 

 or turbinate, scales pluriseriate lanceolate acute, outer shorter. Re- 

 ceptacle toothed or shortly fimbrillate. Corolla regular, glabrous or 

 sessile-glandular. Anther-base with obtuse auricles. Style-branches 

 narrow, linear, papillose. Achene probably 10-costate, hairy ; pappus 



