456 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [Retchardia. 
usually denticulate, sessile, 14-6 in. long or the uppermost smaller, 
mostly cordate semiamplexicaul. Capitula }-1 im. long. Involucral 
bracts broadly ovate 4-3 in. long.—Ascherson in Schweinf. Beitr. Fi. 
ARthiop. p. 154; Picridiwm tingitanum, Desf. FI. Atl. ii. p. 220 (1800) ; 
DC. Prodr. vii. p. 182, cum syn.; P. arabicum, Hochst. et Steud. in 
Herb. Schimp. Arab. n. 833; DC. 1.c.; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 466. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! @. Dillon, Hildebrandt! Nubia fide 
Schweinf, et Aschers. Enum. p. 286. 
Widely spread under various forms in the Mediterranean region ; occurs also in 
N.W. India. 
115. DIANTHOSERIS, Schultz Bip.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. ii. p. 50%. 
Capitula homogamous, ligulate. Involucre broadly compan 
or hemispherical or cylindrical; bracts imbricated. Receptacle % 
naked. Ligule truncate, 5-dentate at the tip. Anther-base sagittas i 
auricles acute or shortly setaceous-acuminate. Style-branches slen ae 
Achenes (immature) oo-costate, smooth, slightly constricted not tonsa 
at the apex. Pappus copiously setose, smooth.—Dwarf or acanlesoet 
herbs with fusiform roots, crowded leaves passing into the involuc 
bracts and yellow flowers. 
A genus peculiar to this Flora. 
Capitula many-flowered, sessile. . . . . 1... + - . LD. Sole 
Capitula 9-10-flowered on short scaly scapes . . . . . . 2. D. Risppeliii 
1. D. Schimperi, Schultz Bip. in Flora, 1842, p. 440; ye 
Herb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 755. Acaulescent perennial herb, wit tt 
thick dark tapering rootstock. Radical leaves numerous, in a rose . 
spathulate or sublinear, obtuse, subentire or repand-denticula : 
1-1} in. long. Capitula sessile, broadly campanulate or hemispherica” 
3-1 in. diameter, many-flowered. Involucral bracts green, imbricate Fl 
the outer ones ovate short ; the inner lanceolate-oblong.—A. Rich. #1. 
Abyss. i. p. 468, 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
2. D. Riippellii, Schultz Bip. in Flora, 1842, p. 440. About 
14 in. high. Leaves numerous, forming a radical rosette, grey -green, 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate with a callous tip and whitish calls 
teeth, glabrous, the larger to about 1 in. in length by 14 lines broad. 
Scape under § in. with numerous lanceolate and ovate-lanceolate acu 
minate white-bordered squame, more numerous above and passing ~ 
the involucre. Capitula 9-10-flowered. Involucre cylindrical abou 
2 lines broad, scales glabrous, the outer much shorter than the ere 
ovate and elongate-lanceolate with broad white membranous pee io 
and herbaceous midrib which is thickened below ; inner long bracts °-° 
linear-lanceolate. Corollas yellow when dry, red beneath.—Freseni* 
in Mas. Senck. iii. 77 (description without name). 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Riippell. 
Description taken from Fresenius, l.c. 
