Launea.'] lxxiti, composite (Oliver and hiern). 461 



the base of the nodes, undivided or sinuate-pinnatifid, obtnse or apicu- 

 late, attenuate to a quasi-petiolate base, the radical ones rangino- 

 up to 4| by 1 in. ; margins often denticulate. Capitula oblong, ^^ in. 

 long, about 11 -flowered, solitary or subsolitary, on bracteate peduncles 

 of ^— I in., terminal and at ends of short lateral branches. Inner invo- 

 lucral bracts about 8, linear or narrowly oblong. Achenes ^-^ in. 

 long, 4r-5-ribbed. Pappus about | in. long, soft, white. — P.pnantheH 

 sarmentosa, Willd. Phytogr. p. 10, t. 6. f. 2 (1794) ; Lacivra >iarmev. 

 tosa, Wight Contrib. Bot. Ind. p. 27 (1834) ; Microrhijnchufi sarmev- 

 tosusy S. bllidifolius and S. Dregeanus, DC.Prodr. vii. p. 181 ; Launa-n 

 mrmentosa, Schultz Bip. mss. in Herb. Hohenack. Ind. Or. n. 193 

 (anno 1847). 



Mosamb. Distr. Kongone mouth of the Zambesi, Kirk ! Zanzibar Island 

 HUdehrandt ! Cabaceira, Peters ! 



Occurs also in the Cape, Natal, Madagascar, Mauritius, India and Ceylon. 



The following is xinknown to us : — 



Paleya hilloiioides, Schultz Bip, /. c, p. 286, name only, from Abyssinia. 



The plant '* with Ery?iffium-like prickly-toothed single leaves, and large almost 

 Stifftia-like heads," referred to by Mr. Bentham in his Memoir o^' Compositae (Journ. 

 I.inn. Soc. xiii. 516) collected by Afeelius and by Barter on the ^'ige^, in the absence 

 of good flowers we are obliged to leave undetermined. Mr. Bentham suggests it may 

 prove to be the type of a new Mutisiaceous genus near Dicornu. It may be Bojeria 

 glabra, Klatt, described from a Senegal specimen of Heudelot's (Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser v 

 xviii. 364). 



XJNKNOWN CULTFV^ATED AND EXCLUDED SPECIES OF COMPOSITJE. 



Aspilia wedeliaformis, Vatke in Osterr. Bot, Zeitscbr. xxvii. p, 197 (1877) with 

 short description, from the coast of Zanzibar, is unknown to us, 



Harpepkora Endlicheriana, Walp. Rep. ii. p. 662, whicli is probably a species of 

 Aspilia, according to Benth, et Hook, f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 372, has been erroneously 

 stated to come from Tropical Afi-ica. 



Helianthii<i annuns, Linn., is cultivated in Abys.^inia and Mozambique, 



SpiYidmithus, P'enzl. ex Eudl. Gen. PI. Suppl. ii. p, 105, which is according- to 

 Benth. et Hook, f. Gen, PI, ii. p, 400, Monolopia major, DC, a Californian herb.'v-as 

 erroneously described by Fenzl as Tropical African. 



Cichorium Intyhis, Linn,, a cosmopolitan herb, is given in Hook. Niger PI. p. i39 

 from the island of St. Thomas. 



Scoi'2onera pinnatifida, Lour, Fl. Cochincli. p. 479 (1790), from Mozambique, non 

 Michx. (1820), S. ? africa?ia, Poir, Encycl. Meth. Suppl. v. p, 114 (1817), DC. Prodr. 

 vii. p. 126, is unknown to us. 



Order LXXIV. GOODENOVIE^. (By W. P. Hiern.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular, pentamerous. Calyx-tnbe adnate 

 to the ovary ; limb persistent, partite, cup-shaped or annular. Corolla 

 gamopetalons, inserted on the ovarv, oblique ; lobes valvate in aestiva- 

 tion, induplicate at the apex. Stamens 5, alternatiuo- with tlie 

 corolla-lobes, inserted at the junction of the base of the corolla with 

 the top of the ovary; anthers free or connate, 2-celled, dehiscing Ion- 

 gitudinally. Epigynous disk 0. Ovary l-2.celled ; style simple, 



