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hornotini graciles, rigidi, striati, albidi, in paniculas dichotomas, 
subcorymbosas, oligocephalas abeuntes; folia parvula, alterna, 
sepe fasciculata, crassiuscula, pubescentia, ovata obtusa, infra 
medium utrinque irregulariter 1-9 sinuato-lobata vel dentata, 
basi cuneata et in petiolum brevem attenuata; capitula terminalia 
modica; involucri campanulati bracteæ scariosæ, lanceolatæ acutæ, 
in aristam brevem pilosam innocuam productæ, dorso puberulæ, 
3-nerviæ, margine fimbriato-ciliatæ ab extimis minimis, rufescen- 
tibus, patulis, ad intimas erectas, apice purpurascentes, flosculos 
æquantes sensim auctæ; receptaculum planum, areolatum, fim- 
brilliferum; flosculi numerosi, æquales, tubulosi, tenues; corollæ 
purpureæ, glabræ, limbo ad medium 5-fido ; antheræ sagittatæ, 
auriculis brevibus obtusis appendiculatæ; stylus inferne glaber, 
ramis obtusiusculis, papilloso-hirtellis; achænia callo basilari 
minuto instructa, compressa, 5-costata, villosa; pappus duplex, 
setis interioribus perplurimis, minute barbellatis, pallide fulvis, 
æqualibus, achænio 3-plo longioribus, basi in annulum cupuli- 
formem subpersistentem coalitis, exterioribus minimis paleaceo- 
laceris, post interiorum delapsus remanentibus. — 5. 
Folia 15-20 mill. long. (cum petiol.), 8-10 mill. lat.; panicul. 
9-3 decimetr. long.; capitul. 1 1/2 cent. diam. lat.; achæn. 2 1/2 
mill.; setze int. 7-8 mill., ext. 1/2 mill. long. 
Hab. in regione montana infer et media. Legi ad fauces montis 
el-'Areys (Bilad Fodhli), prope pagum derelictum Serrya dictum, 
mense Aprili desinente florentem ; It. ann. 1893, Exs. n° 987. 
3. BLEPHARISPERMUM YEMENSE spec. nov.? 
Frutex elatus, ramosus, cortice lævi, pullo, purpurascenti ; rami 
virgati, teretes, obsolete sulcati, inermes, preter juniores partes 
minute pubescentes glaberrimi ; ramuli tune steriles abbreviati, 
gemmiformes, foliis confertis fere fasciculatis instructi, tunc 
evoluti, remote foliosi, glomerulum floralem pedunculatum ter- 
minalem edentes; folia in petiolum brevissimum sensim atte- 
nuata, oblanceolata acutiuscula vel spathulata obtusa, interdum 
emarginata, mucronulata, inconspicue papillari-puberula præte- 
reaque setulis nonnullis tenuissimis, mox evanidis hinc inde con- 
dados glomeruli vix fructus cerasi magnitudine, globosi, subcer- 
, basi squamis 6-8 minutis, ovato-lanceolatis, concavis, dorso 
nr eroso-ciliatis, subdeflexis, 1-seriatis: involucrati ; capi- 
