7//COHPCSITAE "tfr h • NEWSLETTER Number 41 29 December 2004 Scientific Editor: Bertil Nordenstam Technical Editor: Gunnel Wirenius Nohlin Published and distributed by The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Phanerogamic Botany, P.O. Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden ISSN 0284-8422 Contents Mondin, C. A.: Two new species of Smallanthus (Asteraceae: Heliantheae) from Brazil 1 ^"^ Kamel, Ehab Abdelrazik: Cytotaxonomical investigations of the Egyptian Compositae (Asteraceae) : I - Cardueae and Cichorieae 9 Mukherjee, Sohban K. & B. Nordenstam: Diversity of carpopodial structure in the Asteraceae and its taxonomic significance 29 Bartoli, A. & R. D. Tortosa: Chromosome numbers in species of Grindelia (Asteraceae, Astereae) from the Meseta del Somuncura (Patagonia, Argentina) 5 1 """' Pruski, J. & A. Daves: On the lectotypification of ' Chaetanthera Ruiz & Pav. (Compositae: Mutisieae) 54 ^ Wang, Li-Song & Hua Peng: Typification ofthe genus Myriactis Less. (Compositae: Astereae) 58 Daves, A. M. R, Pelukat, A. & P. Bodensteiner: Compositae type images from Munich (M & MSB): the INFOCOMP Project online 60 Watanabe, K. : Index to Chromosome Numbers in the Asteraceae on the Web 64 Anderberg, A. A. : Call for material of the Inuleae (incl. Plucheeae) 65 Book review: Antonio & Masi, The Sunflower Family In The Upper Midwest (by J. Pruski) 66 SYNTHESYS - EU-funded Integrated Infrastmcture Initiative 68 New taxa published in this issue 70