Tab. 7838. 



EUKYOPS SOCOTEANUS. 

 Native of Socotra. 



Nat. Ord. Composit^e. — Tribe Senecionide^. 

 Genus Euryops, Cass.; {Benth. 8j- Jlook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 452.) 



EuRTOFS socotranus; sufFrutex S-pedalis, glaberrimus, dichotome raraosus, 

 ramis robustia folioi-utn basibus persi.steatibus tessellatim cicatricatis, 

 ramulis herbaceis, foliis cum petiolis 2-2J poll, longis sparsis t. ad apicea 

 ramulorum confertis 3- rarius 4-partiti8 ia petiolum gracilem plano- 

 compressum angustatip, segmentis auguste linearibus obtusis 1-nerviia 

 sinubus acutis Isete viridibus, capitulis axillaribus solitariis vel in 

 corymbos foliosos terminales aggregatis, pedunculis folia aaquantibas 

 gracillimis nudis, involucii hemispherici basi nudi, bracteia 8-10 oblongia 

 erectis ad medium connatis apicibus rotundatis herbaceia, receptaculo 

 foveolatim dentate, fl. radii ad 12 tubo brevi ligula \ poll, longa lineiiri- 

 oblonga revohita aurea apice 3-crenata, fl. disci croceis brevibus tubo 

 superne late campanulato 5-fido, antheris exsertis, achgeniis oblongiB 

 compressis pubescentibug, pappi setis brevibus hirsutis. 



E. socotranns, Balf.fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. vol. xi. (1882) p. 841; Bot. 

 Socotr. p. 141, t. xli. 



The genus Euryops is a large one in South Africa, from 

 which country it extends northwards through tropical 

 Africa to Abyssinia and Arabia. One species alone has 

 hitherto appeared in this magazine, namely, -E7. pedinatuSj 

 Cap. {Othonna pectinata, Linn., tab. 306), a handsome 

 conservatory plant, with snow-white cottony foliage, intro- 

 duced in 173-1, and still flourishing in the Cape House at 

 Kew. The genus is closely allied to Senecio, differing 

 chiefly in the pappus and connate involucral bracts, 



E. socotramis was found in the higher regions of Mt. 

 Haghier, in Socotra, by Dr. I, B. Balfour, F.R.S., when 

 on his memorable expedition to that island in 1880, the 

 botanical riches of which he was the first to describe. 

 It has also been collected by Dr. Schweinfurth on Wadi 

 Kischer. The specimen figured was raised in the Iloyal 

 Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, from seeds brought by Dr. 

 H. 0. Forbes, now Curator of the Public Museum, Liver- 

 pool, who visited Socotra in 1898-9. It differs from the 

 native specimens in having rather distant, scattered, much 

 longer leaves and long brauchlets, which do not show the 

 June 1st, 1902. 



