366 LXXIII. COMPOSITZ (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Pulicaria. 
terete, obscurely ribbed. Pappus biseriate ; outer cup-shaped, dentate ; 
inner of about 14-15 scabrid sete, rather dilated and notched at the 
tip.—P. incisa, DC. lec.; P. orientalis, Jaub. et Spach Ilustr. Pl. 
Orient. iv. p. 65, t. 342 (form with outer involucral scales somewhat 
spathulate subobtuse) ; P. aromatica, Br. ! in Salt Abyss. App. p. lxv. 
(name only). 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet, Rousillon. 
Wile Land. Nubia, Bromfield! Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper! Salt! Hilde- 
brandt. Sennaar, Kotschy! Cordofan (Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 286). . 
North Central. Middle Soudan, Bewrmann, fide Schweinf. Ber. Beurm. Pfl. in 
Zeitschr. Allg. Erdk. xv. p. 800 (1868). 
Occurs also in Palestine, Egypt, Arabia, &c. . 
Boissier, Fl. Orient. iii. p. 203, also gives Senegal for the distribution of this 
species. 
7. P. Hildebrandtii, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, p- 
326. An undershrub, 14 ft. high, very like in habit P. grandidentata, 
Jaub. et Spach, pubescent-pilose on the herbaceous parts. Leaves 
broadly obovate, obtuse, dilated at the base, amplexicaul, beyond the 
middle coarsely and unequally incise-dentate from the apex, strong- 
scented, about 24 by 11 in.; teeth and apex mucronate ; peduncles 
terminal, l-headed, short, nearly naked. Capitula subhemispherical, 
radiate. Outer involucral bracts lanceolate herbaceous, the inner ones 
linear-lanceolate scarious loosely imbricate. Receptacle alveolate. 
Achenes (perhaps monstrous?) terete 10-ribbed, twice articulate. 
Outer pappus with short somewhat torn teeth; inner of 20 barbellate 
sete. 
Wile Land. Somali country, on the littoral flat and promontories of the Ahl 
Mountains, at 3300 ft. of altitude, LZildebrandt! 
The description is taken from Vatke, Le. 
8. B. Renschiana, Vathe in Oecsterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxvil. P- 197 
(1877). Shortly glandular-pubescent, shrubby below ; branches rigid- 
wiry, terete. Leaves narrowly elliptical or rhomboid-lanceolate, acutely 
narrowed at both ends, serrate-dentate, ranging up to 14 by $ in.» the 
upper ones smaller ; leaf-base or short petiole auriculate-amplexicaul. 
Peduncles terminal, 1-headed, 2-3 in. long, bearing one or more subu- 
late bracts. Capitula hemispherical, 3-2 in. diameter, radiate, many- 
flowered. Involucral scales pluriseriate, narrowly linear-lanceolate, 
subulate towards the tip, pubescent towards the base, the outer ones 
shorter and more subulate. Ligules linear, 1-2-seriate, toothed at the 
apex, shortly exceeding the involucre, yellow. Achenes setulose. 
Wile Land. Somali-land, Serrut Mountains, near Meid, 6,000 ft. alt., fl. April, 
Hildchrandt! 
9. B. crispa, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 336. Herbaceous, 
1-2} ft. high, more or less whitish-tomentose or occasionally subgla- 
brous, much branched; branches terete, striate, often obscurely 50 
Leaves auriculate-amplexicaul, sessile, denticulate-crisped; lower 
obovate-oblong, narrowed below the middle, rounded or obtuse at the 
apex, }-1} in. long by 3-3 in. long; uppermost small linear or lanceo- 
late subacute or subobtuse. Capitula hemispherical, 4-$ in. diameter, 
