Pulicaria.] LXXIIl. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 365 
the disk; ligule obovate-oblong, 3-dentate, yellow. Anthers linear 
with torn tails. Stigma exserted, straight, linear-tfiliform, papillose. 
Achenes obiong, 8-costulate, glabrous. Outer pappus campanulate, 
slightly incise-denticulate, with rather acute lobes ; sete of the inner 
pappus 8, spathulate, rather broad, serrulate on the margin, plumose- 
barbellate at the apex, about as long as the corolla of the female florets. 
Wile Land. Somali country, among the Ah! Mountains, at 3,300 ft. of altitude, 
Hildebrandt ! 
The description is taken from Vatke, l.c. 
4. P. Grantii, 0. § H.; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soe. Lond. xxix. 
P. 96, t. 64, fig. A. Erect shrub, 2 ft. high or more; branches sub- 
virgate, terete, striate, glandular-puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves 
linear subacute, somewhat narrowed downwards, sessile, not amplexi- 
caul, apiculate, pubescent-tomentose ranging up to 1 in. long by yy in. 
wide or more. Capitula hemispherical, many-flowered, about 4 in. 
diameter, solitary, radiate, on peduncles 14-2 in. long, terminal and 
subterminal. Scales of the involucre pauciseriate, linear or linear- 
subulate, hispid with short curved hairs; inner acuminate; outer 
shorter. Receptacle flat, punctate, 4 in. diameter. Disk-fl. 5-dentate. 
Achenes obovate-oblong, hirsute. Outer pappus cup-shaped, dentate ; 
inner of about 12-15 barbellate sete, rather thicker upwards.— Var- 
themia arabica, T. Thoms, in Speke, Journ., App. p. 638, non Boiss. 
Wile Land. Nile, 16° N. Lat., Speke and Grant ! 
oP vulgaris, Guaertn.; DC. Prodr. v. p. 478. Herbaceous, 
rrect, much branched at least above, more than 1 ft. high, puberulous ; 
ranches subterete, striate. Leaves linear-oblong, subobtuse or sub- 
acute, mucronate, sessile, cordate semiamplexicaul, entire or obsoletely 
denticulate, 3-24 in. long by 4-4 in. wide. Capitula hemispherical, 
1 auy-flowered, y’s-4 in, diameter, solitary or subsolitary, on pedicels 
3-2 in. long, terminal and subterminal, radiate. Scales of the invo- 
lnere pauciseriate, glandular-pubescent, linear acute apiculate ; outer 
rather shorter, Receptacle plane-convex, areolate, naked, }—} in. dia- 
meter, Ligule of ray tridentate, ~,—?,; in. broad. Achenes oblong, 
Setulose. Outer pappus cup-shaped, dentate, inner of about 10-12 
Sete, barbellate towards the tip.—P. arabica, Cass. ; DC. l.c. 
Wile Lana. Abyssinia, Ant. Petit ! 
Widely dispersed in Europe, Asia, Egypt, &c. 
6. P. undulata, DO. Prod. vy. p. 479. Erect much branched 
annual or biennial 4-2 ft. high, more or less hoary-lanuginous or occa- 
Stonally pubescent; branches terete striate. Leaves oblanceolate or 
orlong or uppermost linear, obtuse or uppermost subacute, dentate, 
often undulate, auriculate-amplexicaul, }-2 in. Jong by $-4 in. wide. 
apitala subhemispherical, 3-2 in. diameter, many-fowered, solitary, 
“"mInal and subterminal, radiate, on peduncles }-14 in. long. Scales 
of the involucre sub-4-seriate, glandular-puberulous, linear, acute, sub- 
“ppressed ; outer shorter, sometimes spathnlate and subobtuse. Re- 
°eptacle areolate, 4-2 in, diameter, Achenes obovoid-oblong, setulose, 
