96 COL: GRANT—BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
plici erecto, inferne folioso, albido-tomentoso ; foliis radicalibus ovato-lanceolatis lanceo- 
latisve, acutis, basi in petiolum angustatis, 3 5-nerviis, subtus appresse tomentosis ; foliis 
caulinis superioribus angustioribus acuminatis; capitulis parvis, in cymas terminales 
umbelliformes v. subhemisphæricas longe pedunculatas aggregatis; involueri bracteis 
interioribus laxis, oblongis, obtusis, exterioribus ovatis v. ellipticis, apice roseo-coloratis, 
basi laxe tomentosis; receptaculo alveolato fimbrillato, fimbrillis aurantiacis ; acheniis 
glabris. 
Caulis 14-2 ped. altus, superne nudus. Folia radicalia petiolata, 4-5 poll. longa, 1-2 poll. lata; 
petiolus ad 2 poll. longus. Cyme terminales, 2 poll. diam. ; pedicellis tomentosis brevissimis v. invo- 
luerum subæquantibus. Capitula (in spp. Grantianis) homogama, } poll. diam. Anthere basi attenuate. 
Hab. Hills of Chogwe, 6° 51’ В. lat., alt. 3000 feet (Antennaria no. 1, App. Speke’s 
Journ. 638), Nov. 1860, Col. Grant ! Occurs also in Zambesia and at the Cape. 
[18 inches to 2 feet high. Found on the hills at Chogwe, alt. 3000 feet, 6° 51’ S. lat., November 1860. 
—1. A. 6.1 
Plate LXII. fig. 1. Floret; fig. 2. Stamens; fig. 3. Style-branches; fig. 4. Seta of 
pappus. 
30. PorPHYROSTEMMA Свлхти, Benth. MSS. Herba annua, erecta; caule folioso, 
superne ramoso striato, hirsuto; foliis alternis, linearibus v. inferioribus ovali-linearibus 
obtusis apiculatis v. mueronatis, denticulatis, basi angustatis, supra scabridis v. obsolete 
hirsutis, subtus scabrido-hirtis ; capitulis majuseulis, laxe panieulatis, peduneulatis, pur- 
purascentibus ; involucri bracteis angustissimis, hirto-pilosis, flores subæquantibus; flori- 
bus femineis œ, anguste tubulosis, ore dentatis, hermaphroditis apice setulosis. 
Caulis 2-3-pedalis, teres, costatus. Folia 2-5 poll. longa, 2-1 poll. lata, basi in petiolum alatum 
angustata. Pedunculi erecti, subappresse hirsuti, 1-3 poll. longi. Capitula å poll. diam. Antheræ basi 
acute producte, apice connectivo lanceolato obtusiusculo terminatæ. 
Hab. 4218 8. lat., near Mininga (Erigeron ??, App. Speke's Journ. 637), Col. Grant ! 
(A bushy, 2-to-3-feet-high plant, found also іп October 1860, at 7° 20'S. lat., in moist places by 
beds of streams, with round, purple, button-like flowers ; a pretty plant. The people of Heeao make 
salt from its ashes.—J. А. С.) 
Plate LXIII. fig. 1. Female floret ; fig. 2. Hermaphrodite floret; fig. 3. Stamens ; 
fig. 4. Style; fig. 5. Seta of pappus. | 
31. PULICARIA CRISPA, Benth. Gen. РІ. ii. 336.— PFrancauria crispa, Cass. ; DC. Prod. 
v. 475; App. Speke's Journ. 638. 
Hab. By the Nile, 16? N. lat., Col. Grant! Widely spread in Northern Africa, ex- 
tending through Arabia to India. 
` [Grows locally in bushy masses near cultivation on right bank of the Nile, aboutlat. 16? N. In seed 
here April.—J. A. G.] : 7 
32. PULICARTA GRANTII, Oliv. & Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. (ined.). Herba suffrutescens; 
ramis subvirgatis, teretibus, glanduloso-puberulis ; foliis linearibus basin versus angustatis, 
acutis, pubescenti-tomentosis; capitulis hemisphericis, longiuseule pedunculatis ; pedun- 
culis nudis, striatis, puberulis; involucri bracteis pauciseriatis, lineari-subulatis, pubes- 
centibus » receptaculo subplano, punctato, glabro ; ligulis revolutis; floribus hermaphro- 
ditis tubulosis, 5-dentatis, dentibus glabris; acheniis pilis erectiusculis, hirtis ; pappo 
