Wedelia] lxxi. composite. 577 



repand; capitula heterogamous, radiate, campanulate, about fin. 

 long, on short or very short peduncles, 3 to 1 together, terminal ; 

 peduncles slender, strigose, ranging up to ^ in. long ; involucral 

 scales sub-biseriate, oblong, free to the base, the outer ones the 

 longest, about -J in. long, strigose on the back, with ovate sub- 

 fohaceous tips, subacute or pointed ; the inner ones dry, rigid, 

 with ciliate ovate pointed tips, about \ in. long ; flowers yellow ; 

 ray-florets uniseriate, ligulate, female, fertile, f in. long when 

 straightened, the ovary J^ in. long, somewhat hairy, tipped with 

 a short coroniform unequally fimbriate pappus ; the ligula oval, 

 glabrous, nerved, minutely dentate at the tip, ^ in. long, clawed at 

 the base, spreading; disk-florets hermaphrodite, fertile, yj-in. long; 

 the coroUa ^ in. long, shortly 5-lobed, glabrous ; the anthers partly 

 exserted, dusky, shortly appendaged at the apex, obtuse at the 

 base, ecaudate ; the style-branches short, just exserted beyond the 

 anthers shortly appendaged, hairy; the ovary ^ in. long, slightly 

 pilose, subcompressed, ribbed, oblong, surmounted by a short coro- 

 niform fimbriate pappus, without aristae ; scales of the receptacle 

 folded, embracing the disk-florets, scarious, ^ in. long. 



HuiLLA. — In herbaceous places at the outskirts of forests, from 

 liopollo towards Ja,u ; fl. March 1860. No. 3566. 



3. W. albiflora Hiern, sp. n. 



A perennial, erect, branched herb, 3 ft. high ; stems numerous, 

 subterete ; branches hispid or scabrid, opposite, erect-patent, 

 tawny-brown, rather slender ; leaves opposite, ovate or lanceolate, 

 acuminate acute or subobtuse at the apex, obtuse or abruptly 

 narrowed at the hispid shortly petiolate or subsessile base, rigidly 

 membranous, scabrid, shortly hispid-strigose with pale rigid hairs 

 arising from a papUliform base, dull green above, paler beneath, 

 distantly serrulate and narrowly revolute on the margin, 1 to 4 

 in. long by ■!• to 2 in. broad, spreading ; capitula heterogamous, 

 campanulate-oblong, f in. long, on hispid peduncles ranging up 

 to 1|- in. long, terminal and sub-terminal, forming compound 

 terminal open broad corymbose cymes ; involucral scales pauci- 

 seriate, imbricate, i to J in. long, oval-oblong, obtuse, concave, 

 free to the base or nearly so, the outer ones hispid on the back, 

 occasionally bifid, the inner ones rigidly scarious, embracing the 

 outer florets ; flowers white ; ray-florets radiate, uniseriate, 

 female ; the ligule obovate-oblong, 3-nerved, bi-lobed at the apex, 

 clawed at the base, -^ in. broad, together with the claw j: in. 

 long, the lobes rounded; disk-florets pauciseriate, embraced by 

 the folded scales of the receptacle ; the corolla regular, shortly 

 5-cleft, ^ in. long ; anthers dark-brown, equalling the corolla- 

 tube, shortly appendaged at the apex, minutely and obtusely 

 sagittate at the base ; style-branches 2, shortly exserted, arching, 

 diverging, furnished with small narrow appendages at the apex, 

 papillose ; young achenes somewhat compressedly angular, pilose 

 at least along the angles, pappus coroniform, glabrous except the 

 ciliate-setulose apex, without aristse. 



