Echinops. | LXXIII. COMPOSIT# (OLIVER AND HIERN). 431 
1. BE. longifolius, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 452,t.61. Erect peren- 
nial, about 2 ft. high, branched from the crown of the root. Stems 
simple, terete, glabrate or cottony, leafy. Leaves linear, sessile, am- 
plexicaul, auriculate, closely spinously duplicate-serrate, glabrous and 
shining above, white-tomentose beneath, acute, spinous-pointed, coria- 
ceous, 6-12 by 3-14 in. Heads about 2 in. long in flower, 1 in. in 
fruit, numerous, crowded into a globose head of 14-3 in. diameter. 
Flower purple. Outer setaceous bracts about 4 in. Jong in fruit, com- 
pressed, tawny. Inner involucral bracts in many rows, serrulate- 
ciliate, lanceolate or spathulate, subulate at the tip, about 20-25; the 
innermost connate nearly half way and ranging up to nearly 1 in, long. 
Achenes densely pilose-setose at least towards the apex which overtop 
the pappus. Pappus of many contiguous ciliate narrow scales which 
are connate at the base.—H. serratifolius, Schultz Bip. in Herb. Schimp. 
Abyss, ii. n. 941, 
Upper Guinea. Niger, Baikie! Mora, E. Vogel! (flowers blue), 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Q. Dillon and Petit! alt. 8000 ft.; Gallabat, 
Schweinfurth ! Madi, Speke and Grant ! 
2. B. amplexicaulis, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 
101, t. 67. Erect, 4 ft. high or more. Stem leafy, sulcate, white- 
cottony above. Upper leaves ovate or elliptical, acute or obtuse, pin- 
nately lobed, scabrous above, shortly white-tomentose beneath, 3-9 by 
6 in.; lobes spinous-dentate, from a broad base terminating in a 
spinous point. Heads 1-14 in. long, very numerous, in a dense glo- 
se cluster of 3-4 in. diameter. Outer setaceous bracts not or scarcely 
exceeding 4 in., tawny. Inner involucral bracts 20-25 glabrous, 
ciliate-spinulose, linear-lanceolate or subulate, acuminate at tip, the 
mnermost connate nearly half way. Achenes appressedly pilose. 
appus of numerous contiguous narrow ciliolate bracts connate at base. 
ee pink.—Echinops, no. 1, T. Thoms. in Speke, Journ., App. 
Wile Land. Usui, Speke and Grant ! Bongo-land, Schweinfurth ! 
3. B. spinosus, Linn. Mant. i. p. 119. Stem erect, branched, 
3-5 ft. high, terete, more or less white-cottony, not glandular. Stem- 
Caves sessile, ovate, pinnatisect, 2-8 in. long ; segments spinous-incised 
tr undivided. Heads about 2 in. long or including the long spines 
t project from some of them about 1# in. long, crowded in clusters 
»-4 in. diameter. Outer setaceous bracts silky, }-4 in. long, nearly 
White, Inner involucral bracts about 17, narrowly spathulate or sub- 
linear, acuminate; sometimes one or two project far beyond the others 
‘na strong spine ; the innermost connate at least half way. Achenes 
ptowly turbinate, densely setulose (in the spine-bearing heads). 
ppus of setaceous ciliate scales connate nearly the whole way up.— 
- Rich, Fl. Abyss. i. p. 450. 
e an Land. Abyssinia, Tigré, Q. Dillon! (fide Richard), Schimper! a. 1863, 
pxtonds to Egypt and Arabia. ; 
© description is taken from Egyptian specimens. 
