166 
COMPOSITE, 
[ Oi/lindrocline . 
prominent, with ligulate scales as long as the flowers, the same texture 
as those of the involucre. Anthers tailed at the base. Style simple or 
with short obtuse branches. Achenes angular-cylindrical, glabrous ; 
pappus of 10-12 flattened rigid bristles. Endemic. 
1. C. Commersoni, Cass.; D.C. Prod. v. 458. Alow shrub, with 
spreading branches as thick as a man’s finger, clothed upwards with 
long dense whitish cottony hairs. Leaves crowded, oblanceolate, 
entire, sessile, coriaceous, rugose, 3-4 in. long, obtuse or acute, thinly 
pilose on the face, densely clothed with white tomentum and long 
white cottony hairs beneath. Heads crowded at the end of the branches, 
forming a very dense rounded corymb 3-4 in. broad. Involucre oblong, 
| in. long ; scales persistent, pale brown. Pappus l in. long, exceed- 
ing in length the glabrescent achene. Lepidopogon gnaphalodes and 
Ponse, Tausch. 
Mauritius, near the summit of the Pouce and Piton de la Riviere Noire. 
Endemic. 
8. MONARRHENUS, Cass. 
Heads of numerous flowers, all discoid with slender corollas, the 
outer female, the inner hermaphrodite. Involucre funnel-shaped, 2-3 
times as long as broad, the outer scales growing gradually shorter. Ee- 
ceptacle small, naked. Anthers tailed. Style-branches filiform. Achenes 
minute, terete ; pappus of a single row of bristles, much longer than 
the achene. — Shrubs with crowded narrow alternate entire leaves, and 
minute heads crowded in bundles forming a corymbose panicle. Dis- 
teib. Endemic in the Mascaren Isles. 
Leaves matted with white tomentum beneath . . . . 1 . M. salicifolius. 
Leaves clothed with short spreading grey pubescence 
beneath 2. M. rufescens. 
1. M. salicifolius, Cass. ; DC. Prod. v. 457. A much -branched 
shrub, 3-4 feet high. Leaves crowded, linear, sessile, subcoriaceous, 
3-4 in. long, f in. broad at the middle, narrowed to both ends, green 
and glabrous above, matted with thin white tomemtum beneath. Heads 
very numerous, arranged in dense clusters, which form a congested 
corymbose panicle 3^ in. broad, funnel-shaped, -£■ in. long, half as broad ; 
inner scales dry, lanceolate, acute pale brown ; outer obtuse and ob- 
scurely tipped with green. Achenes cylindrical ; pappus in. long. 
Mauritius, on dry escarpments of the Pouce. Also Bourbon. M. pinifolius , DC. 
seems a mere form of this, with narrow leaves with indexed borders. Bois Senil or 
Bois de Chenille. 
2. M. rufescens, Cass.; DC. Prod. v. 457. Habit of the last, 
from which it mainly differs by having the branches and leaves on both 
sides clothed with short spreading grey pubescence. Leaves sessile, 
l|-2 in. long, under £ in. broad, not clothed with tomentum beneath. 
Involucre under i in. long, the outer scales more distinctly coloured 
green. Flowers in a head fewer. Achenes at first pilose ; pappus 
under ^ in. long. 
Mauritius, Bouton ! Also Madagascar (distributed by Bojer as Vernonia lepto - 
clada ), and Bourbon. 
