PuUcaria.] LXXiii. composittE (oliver and hikrn). 365 



the disk ; lignle obovate-oblong, 3-dentate, yellow. Antliers linear 

 with torn tails. Stigma exserted, straight, linear- filiform, jiapillose. 

 Achenes oblong, 8-costalate, glabrous. Outer pajjpus campnnulate, 

 slightly incise-denticulate, with rather acute lobes ; seta? of the inner 

 pappus 8, spathulate, rather broad, serrulate on the margin, plumose- 

 barbellate at the apex, about as long as the corolla of the female florets. 



ISTile Iiand. Somali country, among the Ahl jVIountains, at 3,300 ft. of altitude, 

 Hildebrandt ! 



The description is taken from Vatke, I.e. 



4. P. G-rantii, 0. 8c H. ; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud. xxix. 

 p. 96, t. 64, fig. A. Erect shrub, 2 ft. high or more ; branches sub- 

 virgate, terete, striate, gland ular-puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves 

 linear subacute, somewhat narrowed downwards, sessile, not amplexi- 

 caul, apiculate, pubescent-tomentose ranging up to 1 in. long by j^,y in. 

 wide or more. Capitula hemispherical, many-flowered, about -^ in. 

 diameter, solitary, radiate, on peduncles 1^-2 in. long, terminal and 

 snbterminaL Scales of the involucre pauciseriate, linear or linear- 

 subulate, hispid with short curved hairs ; inner acuminate ; outer 

 shorter. Receptacle flat, punctate, ^ in. diameter. Disk-fl. 5-dentate. 

 Achenes obovate-oblong, hirsute. Outer pappus cup-shaped, dentate ; 

 inner of about 12-15 barbellate setse, rather thicker upwards. — Var- 

 themia arabica, T. Thoms. in Speke, Journ., App. p. 688, non Boiss. 



KUe band. Nile, 16° N. Lat., Speke and Grant! 



5. P. vulg'aris, Gaertn. ; DC. Prodr. v. p. 478. Herbaceous, 

 erect, much branched at least above, more than 1 ft. high, puberulous ; 

 branches subterete, striate. Leaves linear-oblong, subobtuse or sub- 

 acute, mucronate, sessile, cordate semiamplexicaul, entire or obsoletely 

 denticulate, -§-2^ in. long by ^-^ in. wide. Capitnla hemispherical, 

 many.flowered, fV— ^ in. diameter, solitary or subsolitary, on pedicels 

 ^-2 in. long, terminal and subterminal, radiate. Scales of the invo- 

 lucre pauciseriate, glandular-pubescent, linear acute apiculate ; outer 

 rather shorter. Receptacle plane-convex, areolate. naked, j,-^ in. dia- 

 meter. Ligule of ray tridentate, ^VtV ^^- hi'oad. Achenes oblong, 

 setulose. Outer pappus cup-shaped, dentate, inner of about 30-12 

 setae, barbellate towards the tip. — P. arabica, Cass. ; DC. I.e. 



XTile l^and. Abyssinia, Ant. Petit! 

 AVidely dispersed in Europe, Asia, Egypt, &c. 



6. P. undulata, DC. Prodr. v. p. 479. Erect much branched 

 annual or biennial ^-2 ft. high, more or less hoary-lanuginous or occa- 

 sionally pubescent; branches terete striate. Leaves oblanceolate or 

 oblong or uppermost linear, obtuse or uppermost subacute, dentate, 

 often undulate, auriculate-amplexicaul, -^-2 in. long by ^-4 in. wide. 

 Capitula subhemispherical, ^-| in. diameter, many-flowered, solitary, 

 terminal and subterminal, radiate, on peduncles {-1^ in. long. Scales 

 of the involucre sub-4- seriate, glandular-puberulous, lincnr, acute, snb- 

 appressed ; outer shorter, sometimes spathulate and subobtuse. Re- 

 ceptacle areolate, ^-^ in. diameter. Achenes obovoid-oblong, setulose, 



