366 Lxxiii. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND hiern). [Pulicaria. 



terete, obscurely ribbed. Pappus biseriate ; outer cnp-shaped, dentate ; 

 inner of about 14-15 scabrid seise, rather dilated and notched at the 

 tip. — P. incisa, DC. I.e. ; P. orientalis, Janb. et Spacli Illnstr. PI. 

 Orient, iv. p. 6-'">, t. 342 (form with outer involucral scales somewhat 

 spathulate subobtuse) ; P. aromaticaj Br. ! in Salt Abyss. App. p. Ixv. 

 (name only). 



TTpper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet, Rotisillon. 



Xarile band. Nubia, Bromfidd! Kotschy J Abjssinia, Schimper! Salt! Hilde- 

 brandt. SeunA&r, Kotschy f Cordofan (Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 286). 



STortb Central. Middle Soudan, Beurraann, fide Schweinf. Ber. Beurm. Pfl. in 

 Zeitschr. AUg. Erdk. xv. p. 300 (1863). 



Occurs also in Palestine, Egypt, Arabia, &c. 



Boissier, Fl. Orient, iii. p. 203, also gives Senegal for the distribution of this 

 species. 



7. P. Kildebrandtii, Vathe in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, p. 

 326. An undershmb, 1^ ft. high, very like in habit P. grandidentata, 

 Jaub. et Spach, pubescent-pilose on the herbaceous parts. Leaves 

 broadly obovate, obtuse, dilated at the base, amplexicaul, beyond the 

 middle coarsely and unequally incise-dentate from the apex, strong- 

 scented, about 2^ by IJin, ; teeth and apex mucronate ; peduncles 

 terminal, 1-headed, short, nearly naked, Capitula subhemispherical, 

 radiate. Outer involucral bracts lanceolate herbaceous, the inner ones 

 liuear-lanceolate scarious loosely imbricate. Receptacle alveolate. 

 Achenes (perhaps monstrous ?) terete 10-ribbed, twice articulate. 

 Outer pappus with short somewhat torn teeth ; inner of 20 barbellate 

 setae. 



Wile Ziand. Somali country, on the littoral flat and promontories of the A hi 

 Mountains, at 3300 ft. of altitude, Hildehrandt! 

 The description is taken from Vatke, I.e. 



8. P. Renschlana, Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxvii. p. 197 

 (1877). Shortly glandular-pubescent, shrubby below ; branches rigid- 

 wiry, terete. Leaves narrowly elliptical or rhomboid-lanceolate, acutely 

 narrowed at both ends, serrate-dentate, ranging up to 1-^ by f in., the 

 upper ones smaller ; leaf-base or short petiole auriculate- amplexicaul. 

 Peduncles terminal, 1-headed, 2-3 in. long, bearing one qv more subu- 

 late bracts. Capitula hemispherical, \-^ in. diameter, radiate, many- 

 flowered. Involucral scales pluriseriate, narrowly linear-lanceolate, 

 subulate towards the tip, pubescent towards the base, the outer ones 

 shorter and more subulate. Ligules linear, 1-2 -seriate, toothed at the 

 apex, shortly exceeding the involucre, yellow. Achenes setulose. 



"Stile l^and. Somali-land, Serrut Mountains, near Meid, 6,000 ft. alt., fl. April, 

 Hildehrandt ! 



9. p. crispa, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 336. Herbaceous, 

 1_21 ft. high, more or less whitish- tomentose or occasionally subgla- 

 brous, much branched ; branches terete, striate, often obscurely so. 

 Leaves auriculate-amplexicaul, sessile, denticulate-crisped ; lower 

 obovate-oblong, narrowed below the middle, rounded or obtuse at the 

 apex, J-li in. long by J-f in. long ; uppermost small linear or lanceo- 

 late subacute or subobtuse. Capitula hemispherical, ^— § in. diameter, 



