410 Lxxiii. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND hiern). [Seuecio. 



Leaves coarsely dentate or pin- 

 nately toothed. Achenes 



setulose 25. S. steudelioides. 



Leaves deeply pinnatifid . . 26.6'. farinaceus. 



Florets red 27. S.'clarenceana. 



Trees. 



Leaves undivided. Capitula about 6-flowered 28. S. Mannii. 

 Leaves pinnatifid. Capitula about 22-flowered 29. S. gigas. 



Habit caespitose 30. /S. Unionis. 



Habit scandent or rampant. 



Leaves all undivided, glabrous, obsoletely denti- 

 culate. Florets about 20. Involucral 



bracts 8-9 31. S. Petitianus. 



Leaves all undivided, puberulous, multidentate. 



Florets 14-16. Involucral bracts (5-) 8-9. 



Petioles not auriculato at the base. Outer 



florets female 32. 5. clematoides. 



Petioles auriculate at the base. Florets all 



hermaphrodite 33. <S. deltoideiis. 



Leaves undivided, repand-angular. Florets 



numerous. Involucral bracts about 12 .34. S. Tedliei. 

 Leaves undivided, coarsely dentate. Florets 



numerous. Involucral bracts about 12 . 35. S. Forbes it. 

 Leaves undivided or some pinnately tripartite, 



remotely dentate. Florets 10 .... 36. <S. Biafra. 

 Leaves pinnately lobed. 



Leaf-lobes oblong ovate or obovate. Involu- 

 cral bracts 5 37. -S, subscandens. 



Leaf-lobes sublinear. Involucral bracts 8 . 38. S. gabonicus. 

 Stem and leaves fleshy 



Florets 5-10 39. <S'. longifiorus. 



Florets 13-22 40. -S. klcinioides. 



1. S. abyssinicus, SchuUz Bip. in Herh. Sclihnp. Abyss, i. n. Q7. 

 Annual, erect, simple or branched, 3-16 in. high. Stem striate, 

 angular, Bcattered with crisped hairs. Leaves spathulate or spathu- 

 late- orbicular, obtuse, the upper ones sessile, the lower suddenly nar- 

 rowed into a petiolar half, more or less toothed in upper part, scattered 

 with crisped hairs sometimes but sparsely, ^-1^-2^ by tV~I~13 i°- 

 Bracteoles filiform, sometimes minute. Capitula ^-\ in. long, cam- 

 panulate-oblong, on slender glabrous often bracteolate pedicels ranging 

 up to If in. long, 4-12 together or more in a rather close cyme. Caly- 

 culus absent. Involucral bracts narrowly lanceolate, acute, striate, 

 glabrous, equalling the florets, with narrow scarious margins. Outer 

 florets with a small yellow ray. Achenes costate, setulose ; setulas 

 short, thick. -A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 438 ; S. bellidifolms, Rich. Fl. 

 Abyss, i. p. 439, non H. B. K. ; S. Quartiniamis, Aschers. in Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. p. 158. 



irortb Central. Monbuttu-land. Sckweinfurik / 



Kile Z>and. Abyssinia, Chir^, Q. Dillon and Petit ! Schimper ! Hildebrandt ! 

 A specimen 28 in. high, much branched and with many heads, collected by Speke 

 and Grant at Unyoro, in fields, may be a large state of this species. 



2. S. discifolius, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Land. xxix. p. 100. 

 Annual, erect, 12-15 in. high, with few bi-anches. Stem and ascend- 



