570 LXXI. COMPOSIT. | Mollera 
the sessile or quasi-petiolate decurrent base, finely herbaceous, 
minutely toothed on the apical half or subentire, scabrid-puberulous 
on both sides or minutely punctulate beneath, 2 to 3} in. long by 
1 to i in. broad; capitula heterogamous, radiate, homochromous, 
yellow, broadly campanulate, $ to 2 in. long, many-flowered ; 
involucral scales pauciseriate, imbricate, linear-oblong or -lanceo- 
late, erect subacute, pubescent on the back, not very unequal, 
1 to tin. long; receptacle naked; ray-florets female, uniseriate, 
rather few; ligule puberulous on the back, glabrous on the face, 
oblong, tridentate at the tip, spreading or recurved; disk-florets 
hermaphrodite, pluriseriate, numerous, unequal, tubular, mostly 
exceeding the involucre; corolla puberulous outside, shortly 
5-cleft; anthers about equalling the corolla, glabrous, produced 
at the apex in lanceolate appendages, caudate at the base, the 
tails slender; style about equalling the corolla, the branches 
short, lanceolate-linear, somewhat flattened, rounded not truncate 
at the apex; achenes glabrous or minutely papillose, somewhat 
angular, short ; pappus obsolete, represented by a narrow crenulate 
or lobulate glabrous ring. 
Hvitia.—In wooded rocky thickets between Mumpulla and Lopollo 
or Nene, at anelevation of 4000 to 4500 ft.; fl. and young fr. Oct. 1859. 
No. 4004. 
36. GEIGERIA Griessel.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 337; 
O. Hoffm. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. i. p. 79 (Feb. 1893). 
Thysanurus O. Hoffm. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
iv. 5, p. 127 (1889). 
1. G. acaulis Benth. & Hook. f. ex Vatke in Oesterr. Zeitschr. 
xxv. p. 327 (1875); O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, p. 368; 
non O. Kuntze. 
MossAMEDES.—On rocky bushy slopes between Pomangala and 
Quitibe, here and there abundant but the flowers nearly all fallen, 
beginning of June 1860. No.3480. <A herb, either annual or probably 
biennial or triennial according to locality or degree of exposure ; stems 
short, prostrate ; leaves narrowly lanceolate, spread out on the ground 
in a stellate manner ; outer involucral scales green at the base, purple 
at the tip; florets yellow. In rocky places at the banks of the river 
Bero, rather rare, July 1859. No. 3481. In hilly mountainous places 
between Pomangala and Quitibe ; fr. Oct. 1895. Cox, Carp. 957. 
2. G, linosyroides Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 
A glabrous or subglabrous shrublet, 6 to 8 in. high; rootstock 
very thick, perennial, woody, many-headed; stems numerous, 
erect or ascending, branched at the base or simple, occasionally 
branching near the apex, slender, wiry, subherbaceous, glabrous, 
somewhat angular with the narrow decurrence of the leaves, 
leafy: leaves alternate, sublinear very narrowly elliptical or 
oblanceolate, subacute, apiculate, sessile, narrowly decurrent, 
rigid, thickly herbaceous, glabrous or occasionally scattered with 
a few setulz, suberect, pale yellowish-green, impressed on both 
faces with small scattered darker-green points, uninerved or occa- 
