MR. THEODORE KASSNER’S BRITISH E, AFRICAN PLANTS 841 
fertilium pappi squamis 2-8 lineari-lanceolatis ciliolatis corollas fere 
equantibus adjectis paucis dorsalibus brevioribus, acheniorum 
sterilium squamis 5-10 inter se valde inequilatis integris lacerisve 
quam corolle brevioribus. 
Hab. Taro, 1500 ped. No. 521. 
Caulis 0-2-0-3 cm. diam. Foliorum lamina 0:7-1-2 em. long., 
usque ad 1:0 cm. lat., in sicco pallescens; petioli 0-2-0-6 cm. long. 
Pedunculi 0:5-3-0 cm. long., rarissime 4:0 em. attingentes, graciles, 
glabri, sepe nutantes. Capitulorum glomeruli 1-0-1:3 em. diam. 
Receptaculum commune summum 0°25 om. long. Receptaculum 
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necnon horum styli rami. Achenia fertilia adusque 0-3 cm. long. 
et 0:12 cm. lat., faciebus politis, ciliis albis rigidis, 0'1 cm. long. 
Acheenia sterilia 0:2 cm. long. Acheniorum fert. pappi squame 
majores vix 0:2 cm. long., acheniorum ster. paullo ultra 0-2 cm. 
attingentes. 
Distinguished by the habit, the small leaves and heads, the 
shorter corollas of the hermaphrodite florets, the narrow pappus- 
scales of the fertile achenes, &c. 
Polycline psylloides Oliv. Sultan Hamoud. No. 660. 
edelia abyssinica Vatke. Simba River. No. 684. 
Aspilia Holstii 0. Hoffm. Near Mazeras. Nos. 108, 285. 
Crassocephalum notonioides, sp.nov. Glabrum caule as- 
cendente folioso carnosulo valido, foliis ovato-oblongis acutis 
margine leviter undulatis basi in petiolum sat longum alatum 
gradatim desinentibus carnosulis in sicco Vi 
majusculis homogamis circa 80-flosculosis paucis ad apicem 
pedunculi terminalis folia excedentis raribracteati approximatis, 
parvis onustis, involucri omnino 
4°0-5:0 om. long. Pedunculus adusque 20°0 em. long.; hujus 
bractes oblongo-lineares plereque 8°0-4:0 cm. long 
proprii 1:0-2°5 em. long. Capitula paullo ultra 20 cm. long., 
15 em. di Involueri phylla 2°1 cm. long., latiora 0°5-0°6 cm. 
lat., angustiora 0°15-0:2 em. Corolle in toto 1-8 cm. long.; tubus 
eorsum angustus (0:08 cm. diam.), sursum ad 0°12 cm. dilatatus ; 
lobi anguste lineari-lanceolati 0°5 em. long. Styli rami 0-7 cm. 
long., cujus dimidium ad appendicem _acutatam ubescentem 
Pertinet. Achenia immatura anguste cylindrica, tenuiter costata, 
glabra, 0-2 cm. long. Pappi setw albw, scabriusculw, 1-2 em. long, 
_, A-remarkable plant which I am wholly unable to match or name 
from descriptions. The Notonia-like habit, the fleshy leaves, the 
