7 
612 
se Oqulis perbreuis. 
0 Gapitula ‚glaberrima; brasteae involucrantes capi- 
inlis breviores, ewigune. Bractene flores stipantes 
eos circiter aequantes. (Plantae pusillae, Braeteae 
involuorantes disco appressae.) 
. F Species orbis veteris. 
47, Er. abyssinicum Hochs. 
Pedancnlis folin duplo vel plus superantibus; bracteis in- 
- volnerantibus quam flores stipantes majoribus et ab iis distin- 
eis; perigonio mäseulo interiore irilebo,  glabro; Feminen 
'ewieriore subaequaliter tripartilo, interiore tripartito. Q. 
Briocaulon abyjssinicum Hochsteiter in Schimper pl, 
Abyss.. exsico, seet, 3, no, 1944. Begensh. Flor, 28, 3l. 
m s) Steudel Synops. 2, 273. 
Abyssinia: In planitiei montanae Schire paladosis 
Octobri leg, Schimper no. 1944. (Hb, Al. Braun, el 
Sonder.). \ 
Plania 1%/,-— 21/g-pollioaris. Canlis perbrevis. Folia 
cespifosa, lineari-subnlata, glabra, plans, pellueida, fent- 
strato- 3-nervia, 3%, —1 pollicem longa, medio eireiter Is 
lineam late. Pedimeuli aggregati, glabri, leiter 3-00stali, 
paullo iorti, inaequales, 11/, — 21/,- pollicares. . Vagintt 
aretae, oblique fissae, glahrae, 5— 7-lineares, Capitol 
glaberrima, griseo- pallida, sordida, ovato -semiglobost, 1% 
. lineas lata. DBractene involuerantes oyales, ohtusinseulae, 
glabrae, membranacene,. sordide pallidae. Braetene flores sli- 
pantes obovatae;, acutae, glabrae, grises - pallidae. Becepia- 
eulum glabriusenium, Flores brayissiine pedicellati, masenli 
eentrales, feminei warginales,. Hl: Perigonüi exteriorig pAT- 
tes 3 ohlongae, postice spathaceo -connatae ei summe apiee 
liberae, antice fissae, ohlangae, aeutiusonlae, glahrae, mente 
