426 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Ursima. 
mens) with acute apical callus. Capitula subglobose, 4-4 in. diam., 
solitary, terminal, on naked peduncles of 1-3 in. exceeding the leaves. 
Outer involucral bracts ovate, obtuse or subacute, mostly with dark 
edges.—Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 152 (U. nana and U. indecora, 
DC. Prodr. v. p. 690); U. abyssinica, Schultz Bip. in Herb. Schimp. 
Abyss. ii. n. 1288; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 417. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! Q. Dillon! Petit! 
Occurs also in both Eastern and Western districts of Cape Colony, etc. 
90. LANDTTIA, Less. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 457. 
Capitula heterogamous radiate, ray-florets ligulate 9. Involucre 
campanulate, bracts loosely pluriseriate, the inner scarious_ above. 
Receptacle alveolate with or without fimbrille. Style ultimately 
2-lobulate. Achenes obovoid or turbinate, glabrous, angled or costate 
on the face (and transversely rugose in L. Schimperi), pappus minute 
of l-seriate squamelle.—Acaulescent herbs with entire or pinnatifi 
radical leaves and sessile or shortly peduncled yellow capitula. 
A small genus of Tropical and Southern Africa. 
Leaves undivided. Corolla-tube-glabrous. Achenes smooth. 
Receptacle naked. . . 
Leaves shortly pinnatifid. "Corolla-tube cottony. ” Achenes . . 
transversely wrinkled. Receptacle fimbrillate. . . . . 2. DL, Schimpert. 
1, L. Riippellii, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 457. Rootstock 
thick with numerous thick elongated fibres, not creeping. Leaves 
radical, oval, numerous, rounded at the ‘apex, gradually or abruptly 
narrowed at the base, coarsely or repandly crenate-dentate, petiolate, 
rather fleshy, coriaceous when ‘dry, nearly glabrous above, shortly 
white-tomentose beneath, 11-21 by 3-11 in.) besides dilated petiole of 
13-24 in. Capitula turbinate-hemispherical, }-2 in. diam., solitary, 00 
peduncles of 1-3 in. which are thickened towards the apex. Involuc 
bracts linear-oblong; outer ones somewhat woolly. Ligule of the 
ray-florets linear-oblong, 3 by 4 in. Corolla-tube of the disk-florets 
glabrous. Achenes obovoid, yy in. long, smooth. Style cylindrical. 
ceptacle flat, naked.—Schnittspahnia Riippellii, Schultz Bip. m Flora, 
1842, p. 489; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 446. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Riippell ! 
2. &. Schimperi, Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 457. Rootstock 
elongated, creeping. Leaves radical oblanceolate, numerous, obtuse a4 
mucronate, attenuate at the base into the petiole, sinnous-pinnatifi 
or subentire, shortly silvery-velvety or -cottony beneath, glabrous oF 
obsoletely velvety above, 1-6 by 4-18 in. besides petiole of i.» 
lobes mostly ovate obtuse and toothed, terminal one largest. apitula 
hemispherical, about } in. diam., on peduncles of less than 1 1n., sol 
tary. Involucral bracts oblong, the outer ones cottony. Ligule © 
the ray-florets oval-oblong, about @ in. long. Corolla-tube cottony- 
Achenes glabrous, obovoid, 4 in. long, transversely rugose, costate. 
Style thickened near the apex and with a ciliolate ring neaT the base- 
1. L. Riippellit. 
