Sonchus. | LXXIII. COMPOSITH (OLIVER AND HIERN). 459 
Nile Land. Djur-land, in open fields, near Seriba Ghattas, Schweinfurth! 
White Nile, N. Lat. 8° 45’, the Mularto of the Arabs, Petherick ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Goodwin! Lower Valley of the Shire, Meller! 
Stewart! 71°'S. Lat. Used as spinach, Speke and Grant! Inhambane, Peters ! 
Perhaps a distinct species. . 
5 Var.? exauriculatus, O. & H. Leaves without auricles, undivided, sometimes 
obtuse. 
Nile Land. Djur-land. Heads about 20-flowered, leaves acute, Schweinfurth ! 
?Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar. Heads about 11-flowered. Leaves obtuse, 
apiculate, Hildebrandt ! ' ; . 
These specimens again may form either one distinct species or possibly two inde- 
pendent species, instead of a variety of the above species, 
5. S. cornutus, Hochst. in Herb. Kotsch. Nubd. n. 157. Erect 
Perennial herb, 3-2 ft. high or more. Branches rather divaricate. 
ves crowded near the base of the stem, obovate, spathulate or pin- 
nately lobed or toothed, apiculate, mostly narrowed at the base, sessile, 
occasionally subauriculate, denticulate, 1-8 by }382 in. Capitula 
campanulate-oblong, 20-27-flowered, 2-3 in. long, on bracteolate pedi- 
cels of 4-1} in., in rather lax divaricate cymes. Inner involucral bracts 
8-10, nearly glabrous, obtuse; outer shorter. Achenes 3-4 in. long, 
b, about 10-striate, transversely scabrid-rugulose. Pappus white, 
soft, } in. long. 
Wile Land. Cordofan, Kotschy! Gallabat, Schweinfurth! White Nile, 
Schweinfurth ! Between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfurth! 
6. S$. Brunneri, 0. § H. A low shrubby herb, with glabrous 
horizontal branches, Leaves spathulate or linear obtuse glabrous sessile 
seml-amplexicanl, mostly auriculate, entire, 1-3 in. long. Capitula 
oblong, apparently about 13.flowered, }~-} in. long, on bracteolate 
pedicels of 1-2 in, long, few together, in lax cymes. Inner involucral 
Tacts about 8, lanceolate, more or less scarious. “ Achenes tetragonous 
elongated not attenuate at the apex, angles subacute, striate, the inner 
pnes densely squamulose.” Pappus subtawny, # in. long.—Rhabdo- 
theca Brunneri, Webb in Hook. Niger. Fl. p. 147 note ; Microrhynchus 
Brunneri, Walp. Ann. ii. p. 976. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Sér Island, Brunner ! 
. a Ss. prenanthoides, 0. § H. Pale perennial herb, 1-3 ft. high, 
divaricately branched, glabrous, glaucous, leafy at the crown of the 
root, Sparingly so above. Leaves pinnatifid-dentate or the upper ones 
subentire, oblong, narrowed towards the amplexicaul base ; the lower 
ones 2-6 in, long, scarcely petiolate; the upper ones smaller, sessile, 
wuriculate. Capitula oblong, 3-2 in. long, 20-25-flowered, on bracteo- 
late pedicels of 4-11 in., in a divaricate cyme. Inner involucral bracts 
about 5, lanceolate, scarious. Achenes }-+ in. long, subterete, slender, 
jwewhat tapering upwards, smooth, 10-costate. Pappus soft, k in. 
long.— Zollikoferia prenanthoides, Hochst. in Herb. Kotsch. n . on. 
oie habdotheca prenanthoides, Schultz Bip. in Aschers. Enum. 
Worth Central. Kouka, E. Vogel! 
Hand. Cordofan, Kotschy / 
