45,4 LXXUI. COMPOSITZ (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Lactuca. 
segments. Capitula 2-3 in. long, 5-flowered or in the variety 3-5- 
flowered, on pedicels ranging up to 1-3 in., in a repeatedly branched 
cyme. Inner involucral bracts usually 5. Achenes compressed, striate, 
black with long pale neck at top. Pappus of a golden colour.—Pyrho- 
pappus Hochstetteri, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 463. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! 
Var. humilis. Dwarf. Leaves entire or dentate-runcinate. Heads 3-5-flowered. 
Lactuca humilis, Schultz Bip. 1. c. ii. n. 1172. Pyrhopappus humilis, A. Rich. 1. ¢. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
8. X. rarifiora, Fresen. in Mus. Senckenb. iii. p. 73 (1889). 
Stem glabrous, dichotomously branched. Leaves runcinate denticu- 
late or undivided and linear, terminal part elongated, linear, acuminate, 
pilose on the midrib beneath; the upper ones sagittate-amplexicaul ; 
auricles elongated, lanceolate-linear, acuminate. Capitula about } in. 
long, about 8-flowered, distant, on bracteolate pedicels, in a dichoto- 
mous cyme. Inner involucral bracts linear. Achenes oblong, striate 
on both sides, 3 in. long, terminating in a beak about one-third or one- 
fourth as long as the body. Pappus } in. long, yellowish below, white 
above.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 461. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Riippell. 
9. . paradoxa, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. u. n. 1320. 
Nearly glabrous glaucescent climbing herb, with diffuse divaricate 
branches. Uppermost leaves sessile, amplexicaul, ovate; lower leaves 
with a large hastate-ovate terminal lobe, with one ovate or oblong 
lateral lobe on each side separated from the terminal lobe by the nar- 
rowly winged midrib, and with a narrowly winged amplexicaul petiole, 
altogether 1-4 by 2-2 in. Capitula 3-% in. long, 6-11-flowered, on 
pedicels of ,).~14 in., in lax diffuse cymes. Inner involucral_bracts 
3. Ovaries striate, pale, subterete, tapering towards apex. Pappus 
white.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 461. Pertya paradoea, Schultz Bip. 
in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. p. 153. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 8-9000 ft. alt. 
10. &. glandulifera, Hook. f. in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. Lond. vu. P- 
203. Hispid-glandular, climbing herb, 8-15 ft. high. Stems flexuous, 
with spreading branches. Leaves hastate-ovate in the upper part, peat 
the middle suddenly constricted nearly to the midrib, then with a later 
lobe on each side and ending towards the base in a broadly winged 
amplexicaul auriculate petiole, altogether 1-3 by 4-14 in., acute 0 
apiculate, denticulate; the uppermost leaves undivided. Capitula 
3-¥ in. long, 5-flowered, subsessile or pedicellate, in much branche 
divaricate cymes. Inner involucral bracts 5, linear-lanceolate. Ackent 
compressed, with 4 elevated almost winged ribs on each side, pale 
brown, terminating in a long neck. Pappus white. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, 7-8000 ft. alt., Mann! ee: 
_ Brachyrhamphus (Lactuca) Schimperi, Schultz Bip., i.e. Sonchus Spachit, Schw: 
Beitr. Fl. Athiop. pp. 283, 307, names only, from Nubia, is unknown to us. 
