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ing branches scattered with white crisped hairs. Leaves orbicular, 
#+-2 in. diameter, except the uppermost obovate-spathulate ones, 
repand-denticulate, retuse depressed or very obtuse at apex, puberu- 
lous, suddenly narrowed into an alate petiolar half of 3-13 in. Capitula 
widely campanulate, 4 in. long, 1-3 together, on peduncles of 3-7 in. 
terminating the branches. Calyculus absent. Involucral bracts 
broadly linear with an ovate acute apex, striate, glabrous, with narrow 
scarious margins, reflexed after flowering. Outer florets with an 
orange or golden-coloured ligule, oval, trifid at apex, reflexed, } in. long. 
Achenes (immature) costate, setulose on the ribs; setule very short. 
Receptacle convex, } in. diameter.—Hmilia, n. 1, T. Thoms. in Speke, 
Journ., App. p. 638. 
_ Nile Land. Uganda, Speke and Grant! (1° N. Lat. in the plantain groves) ; 
Niamniam-land, Schweinfurth ! 
3. S.?2 emilioides, Schultz Bip. in herb. Vindob.; Aithiop. Kotsch. 
1837-8, n. 203, et in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Hthiop. p. 158. A glabrous 
annual, branched from the base. Capitula discoid, twice the size of 
those of §. abyssinicus, Schultz Bip. Involucral bracts in one row. 
Style-branches penicillate-truncate at the apex. 
Wile Land. /Zthiopia, Sennaar?, Kotschy. 
We have not seen the specimen. 
4. S$. vulgaris, Linn. Sp. Pl. edit. i. p. 867 (1753). Erect, 
glabrous, 6-18 in. high, branched from the base, annual. Branches 
terete, striate. Lowest leaves dentate or subentire, oblong-spathulate, 
petiolate, scarcely 1 in. long, stem-leaves pinnatifid or pinnatipartite, 
sessile, auriculate-amplexicaul, ranging up to 2 by 1 in., segments 
tant, spreading, oblong or ovate, obtuse, as well as the rhachis more 
or less toothed. Capitula oblong, discoid, } in. long, on short slender 
lcels, in dense corymbose cymes. Calyculus of several minute 
appressed bracts. Involucral bracts linear. Achenes puberulous.— 
asi vi. p. 341. S. gaffatensis, Vatke in Linnwa xxxix. p. 505 
Nile Gand. Abyssinia, in meadows near Gaffat, 8100-8200 ft. alt., Schimper ! 
__ Widely spread oves Europe and the East, extending to America, and introduced 
into New South Wales. 
5. S$. arabicus, Linn. Mant. i. p. 114. Annual, glabrous in most 
ris about $-1} ft. high, not much branched, leafy. Leaves pinnati- 
fid or Pinnatipartite, mostly oval in general outline, 1-3} in. long, 
Upper sessile amplexicaul or subpetiolate with an auriculate base, _ 
°wer narrowed into a petiole; lobes dentiform or toothed. Capitula 
*.4panulate, } in. long, on slender pedicels ranging up to # in., in a 
'varicate corymbose cyme. Calyculus of 6-9 short bracts. Involu- 
th racts linear with a lanceolate tip and scarious margin, equalling 
De Pappus. Ligule absent. Achenes puberulous all over, costate.— 
DC. Prodr, vi, 342. SS. egyptius, Linn., A. discoideus, Boiss. Fl. Or. 
il. p. 388 (1875). 
Mile Zand. Cordofan, Kotschy ! Nubia, Islands in the Nile, Bromfield / 
Oceurs also in t. 
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