Geigeria] LXXI. COMPOSITA. 571 
sionally with the midrib branched a little above its base, flat or 
nearly so, } to | in. long, the margin narrowly cartilaginous, entire ; 
capitula heterogamous, radiate, xantho-homochromous, many- 
flowered, solitary, terminal or subterminal, sessile or subsessile, 
erect, with a campanulate not turbinate base and a spreading 
apex ; involucre about } in. in diameter ; involucral scales pluri- 
seriate, imbricate, more or less acute, glabrous at least below, the 
outermost ones foliaceous, } to 2 in. long, the intermediate ones 
seale-like with terminal foliaceous appendages some of them 
shorter than the outermost foliaceous ones, the innermost broadly 
lanceolate, gradually acuminate to an acute apex, wholly scarious, 
ciliolate on the margin, a little shorter than the florets of the 
disk; ray-florets few, female, the corolla ligulate, the ligule 
yellow, spreading, recurved, nerved, tridentate at the apex, style- 
branches elongated and far-exserted ; corolla of the hermaphrodite 
multiseriate disk-florets tubular, membranous, yellow, 5-cleft, 
the lobes lanceolate, erect-connivent, truncate-denticulate at the 
apex; anthers produced at the apex into narrowly lanceolate 
acute appendages and at the base into filiform tails; style- 
branches similar to those of the ray-florets, long, slender, almost 
subulate ; achenes of the disk-florets rather short (4, in. long), © 
somewhat compressed and obconical, wrapped in long ascending 
pilose hairs; pappus coroniform, consisting of numerous densely 
contiguous pluriseriate scarious lanceolate very acute somewhat 
spreading palez ; areola at the apex of the achene pretty large, 
bearing in the centre the reddish hemispherical nectary ; receptacle 
depresso-convex, densely fimbrillate with tall sete. 
Hvitia.—In sunny situations, among very low bushes, near Mum- 
pulla ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3987. 
3. G. acicularis O. Hoffm. in Bull. Herb. Boiss, i. p. 82. 
Huiitia.—A slender heath-like shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, the whole 
plant especially the leaves and capitula resinous-viscid ; stem straight, 
naked from the base far up, woody, corymbosely branched towards the 
apex ; capitula homogamous, discoid, yellow ; the involucre cylindrical- 
campanulate, involucrate at the base with the upper stem-leaves ; 
involucral scales pluriseriate, the outer ones broad scarious obtuse and 
mucronate, the inner ones gradually longer and acuminate, the inner- 
most ones equalling the disk ; all erect and imbricate ; flowers yellow; 
corollas all tubular, 5-cleft, flatly compressed ; the tube gradually and 
but little widened from the base, glabrous; the lobes lanceolate, 
acuminate, strictly erect, connivent and denticulate at the apex ; 
anthers acute and exserted at the tips, tailed at the base, the tails long, 
simple and subulate ; style included, gradually dilated upwards, its 
branches lanceolate erect flattened and very sparingly puberulous; 
achenes obconical, rather short, greatly narrowed at the base, densely 
beset with long slender hairs which invest the pappus at the base ; the 
scales of the paleaceous pappus 10, broad, hyaline, whitish, obtuse or 
incise-denticulate, 5 of them with and 5 without a long hyaline subulate 
bristle ; receptacle narrow, densely setose. In pastures among low 
bushes between Mumpulla and Humpata, at an elevation of 4000 ft., 
abundant ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3986. 
