648 Lxxiii. coMPOSiTiE (oLiVER AND hiern). [Helichrysunii 



5. H. Quartinianum, A. Bic/i. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 427. Perennial 

 herb, erect, albido-toinentose, 1 J ft. high ; stems simple or nearly so, 

 terete, with rather sparse leaves. Leaves linear-oblong, subacute, 

 sessile, subamplexicaul, entire, 1-3 in. long by yV"! ^"- 'W'ide. Capitula 

 hemispherical, about \ in. diam., many-flowered, on short unequal 

 pedicels, in dense globose cymes 2-3 in. diam. at the rather slender 

 ends of the stems. Scales of the involucre multiseriate, imbricated, 

 mostly 3-sulcate-nerved ; inner linear acute, ^ in. long, glabrous, more 

 coriaceous below ; intermediate spathulate-oblong, glabrous, succes- 

 sively shorter ; outermost ovate with basal woolly claw. Receptacle 

 flat, ^ in. diam., shortly fimbrilliferous, ultimately naked. Florets all 

 5 . Achenes pblong, 4-8-costate, truncate, glabrous, ^ in. long. 

 Pappus barbellate, uniseriate, connate at very base, slightly ruddy, 

 slender. 



mie Kand. Abyssinia, Q. Dillon and Petit ! 



6. S. ^raclllpes, 0. §• H". Procumbent surculose herb, rosulate 

 at base, with filiform terete quickly glabrate branches 2-5 in. long. 

 Leaves albido-tomentellous especially beneath, mucronulate, cauHne 

 distant, more or less elliptical, subacute or subobtuse, s^jbsessile, nar- 

 rowed at the base, ^— | in. long by jV~ i i^- wide ; radical approximated, 

 obtuse or rounded, narrowed at base into petiole or in some forms 

 cordate-reniform, ^f in. long by |— ^ in. wide ; petioles |~| in. long. 

 Capitula campanidate, 20-flowered, J in. long, on slender glabrate 

 peduncles ^-1 in. long at ends of principal branches or on shorter 

 peduncles at ends of short axillary branches, solitary or subsolitary. 

 Scales of the involucre pluri- (about 5-) seriate, straw-coloured, gla- 

 brous, acute ; inner linear ; outer successively shorter and more 

 lanceolate, iteceptacle naked. Flowers all hermaphrodite. Achenes 

 thinly puberulous. Pappus white, barbate with patent bristles. 



Xrile Dband. Bed Sea, Nimmo ! 



7. K. citrispinuzn, Del. in Ann. 8c. Nat. Ser. ii. vol. xx. p. 93. 

 Pruticose ; branches divaricate, terete, pale-tomentose, leafy and spinous 

 above. Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblong, obtuse or subacute, revolute, 

 sessile, not narrowed at the base, often crowded in terminal tufts, 

 incano- pubescent on both sides, about J in. long, upper often with 

 axillary spines about ^ in. long. Capitula widely campanulate, J— | in. 

 long, solitary at the ends of the short leafy branches. Scales of invo 

 lucre pluriseriate, scarious, lanceolate, subobtuse, coriaceous at base, 

 outer shorter. Receptacle foveolate ; margins of pits with toothed 

 margins. Flowers all 5 • Corolla-lobes nigro-punctate. Achenes 

 shortly pubescent ; hairs shining.— if. spinosum, Schaltz Bip. in Hb. 

 Schimp. Abyss. Sect. ii. nn. QQ&^ 1246 ; Gnaplialiwm spinosum^ Schultz 

 Bip. in Mohl et Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. iii. p. 173 (1845). 



wrUe Xiand. Abyssinia, Sckimper f Both/ Ferret and Galinierf 11-13,000 ft. alt. 



Gnaphalium crispatulum, Del. Fl. JEgypt. p. 123, t. 44, f. 3, an Egyptian species, 

 is mentioned in Schultz Bip. and Aschers. Enum. p. 285, n. 2456, as occurring also in 

 Nubia and Abyssinia. A specimen so named, belonging to the Berlin herbaritim and 

 seen by uS) we Regard as conspecific with Helichrysvm citrispinum, DeL 



