364. LXXIII, COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Pulicaria. 
1. P. petiolaris, Jaub. et Spach, Iilustr. Pl. Orient. iv. p. 69, t. 
344, Suffruticose, 1-14 ft. high ; upper parts herbaceous glandular- 
puberulous and shortly and appressedly pubescent; branches irregu- 
larly divaricate, terete and leafless below, striate-angular and leafy 
above. Leaves alternate, oval or lanceolate, acute or subacute, cuneate 
or truncate at base into narrowly winged petiole, membranous, dentate, 
flat, 3-2 in. long by 4-4 in. wide; uppermost smaller; petioles more 
or less dilated at base, amplexicaul 1-1 in. long, uppermost. shorter. 
Capitula subhemispherical, many-flowered, 3-2 in. diameter, solitary 
on pedicels }-4 in. long, loosely corymbose, radiate. Scales of the 
involucre pauciseriate, unequal, imbricate, thinly glandular-pubescent, 
linear-acute or -subulate; outer successively shorter. Receptacle 
punctate flat, 1, in. diameter. Achenes subfuasiform, contracted at the 
apex below the pappus, thinly pubescent. Outer pappus short, connate 
at the base ; inner of about 4 deciduous setw, barbellate above.—Kiliana 
chrysopsicides, Schultz Bip. in Flora xxiv. i. Intell. BI. p. 26 (1841) 3 P. 
chrysopsioides, Schultz Bip. ex Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 286; 
Allagopappus chrysopsicides, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 
Aithiop. 153. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Salt! Schimper! 3500-9000 ft. alt.; Nubia and Sennaar 
(Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 286). . 
A specimen from Somali-land, Hi/debrandt ! seems to belong to this species. 
2. P. Riippellii, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sect. il. n. 
1041. Erect annual 24-9 in. high, more or less albido-lanate ; 
branches few terete. Leaves obovate-spathulate, obtuse, sessile, ° 
auricled and amplexicaul or lower narrowed at the base into a short 
alate petiole, denticulate, flat, more or less arachnoid-tomentose, espe 
cially beneath, }-24 in. long by ,4,—# in. wide. Capitula hemispherical, 
many-flowered, 4-3 in. diameter, solitary on terminal and subterminal 
peduncles }-2 in. long, radiate. Scales of the involucre pauciseriate, 
more or less densely woolly ; inner linear, acute, with a long tail-like 
apiculus ; onter linear-oval, acute or obtuse, apiculate, scarcely oF not 
shorter, herbaceous. Receptacle ,!, in. diameter, flat, naked. Ligule 
long, tridentate. Achenes terete, slightly sericeous or glabrate; outer 
pappus cup-shaped, dentate ; inner of about 7 white sete barbellate 
towards the tip.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 401; P. involucrata, R. Br. 
in Salt Voy. Abyss. App. p. Ixv. (name only) (1814). 
Wile Gand. Abyssinia, Salt! Schi ! ’ of Red Sea, be- 
tween 11° and 12° N. Lat, Lord! chimper ! Ehrenberg! shores 
3. PB. Kurtziana, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, P- 827. 
A small shrub, 14 ft. high, densely glandular and slightly pilose wel 
the herbaceous parts. Leaves oblong-linear, coarsely pinnatifid-dentate 
towards the apex, somewhat fleshy ?, callous-mucronate, 14 by 1's 12. 
Peduncles 1-headed. Capitula many-flowered, radiate. Involucre 
broadly campanulate ; bracts numerous, ovate-lanceolate, unequal, the 
outer ones gradually smaller, dark brown at the apex, rather acute, 
nearly glabrous, keeled: Ray-florets scarcely one-third longer ¢ 
