I 



Gre'pis.'] Lxxiii. composite: (Oliver and hiern). 449 



Capitnla about ^ in. long, on pedicels 'ranging up to 1 in., in rather 

 dense cymes. Inner involucral bracts about 18, lanceolate, hispid 

 with black and green hairs ; outer bracts narrow, shorter. Achenes 

 ;}in. long, costate, attenuate at apex into a beak. Pappus \ in. long, 

 sordid. — Barkhausia Schnltzii, Hoclist. I. c. ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 

 464 ; Brachydercea Schultzii, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Fl. ^Ethiop. 

 p. 283. 



XrUe Ziand. AhjHsima.' Schimper ! 



2. C. carbonaria, Schultz Bip. in Flora xxii. 19 (1839), et in 

 Mus. Senrkenh. iii. 54 (1839). Slender shining puberulous perennial 

 herb, 6-15 in. high. Radical leaves numerous, diffuse, obtuse, apiculate, 

 runcinately toothed or pinnatifid, membranous, on petioles of 1-4 in., 

 altogether about double as loug, terminal lobe §— 1 J in. wide, the other 

 lobes small ; stem-leaves very few, narrower. Capitula ^-| in. long, 

 solitary or few together, pedunculate. Inner involucral bracts 13, 

 linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, thinly tomeutose and hispid with black 

 hairs ; outer bracts smaller. Achenes about ^ in. long, attenuate at 

 apex into a slender beak. Pappns subsordid, ^ in. long — Barkhausiia 

 carhonaria, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 4Go ; C. femn-nmu^ Schultz Bip. in 

 Herb. Schimp. Abyss, ii. n. i617 \ B. tenerrima, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 

 p. 464; Brachydercea carbonaria and B. tenerrima, Schultz Bip. in 

 Schweinf. Fl. JEthiop. p. 283. 



XrUe Aand. Abyssinia, alt. 10,500 ft., Schimper! 



3. C. Newii, 0. Sf B. Perennial. Rootstock thick. Flowering 

 stems scabrous- hispid and puberulons, nearly leafless above the base, 

 about 1^ ft. high. Radical leaves o borate, cuspidate, dentate with 

 acute backward teeth, attenuate to the sessile base, hispid especially on 

 the midrib on both sides, 3-4 in. long, about 1 in. wide. Capitula 

 •|-f in. long, on pedicels of lJ-3 in. long, about 5 in a lax corymbose 

 cyme. Inner involucral bracts 13, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, shortly 

 pubescent and sparingly hispid along the back ; outer bracts smaller. 

 Pappus subsordid, -{^ in. long. 



ASozamb. Oistr. Kilima-njaro ? Bev. C.New! 



4. C. Schimperi, Schultz Bip. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss, i. n. 295. 

 Hispid annual, simple or branched from the base, 3-15 in. high. 

 Leaves oval or oblong, pinnatifid or dentate, hispid, obtuse or acute, 

 ranging up to 3^ by 1^ in. ; the radical ones several, attenuate at base 

 into a short petiole ; the stem- leaves fewer ; the upper ones sessile, am- 

 plexicaul. Capitula^— f in. long., on pedicels of ^4^ in., in a lax open 

 cyme. Inner involucral bracts 13, lanceolate, with strongly hispid 

 keel and puberulous ; outer bracts shorter. Achenes |-? in. long, 

 attenuate at apex into a beak ; pappus :J^in. long, subsordid. — Sclmltz 

 Bip. in Schweinf Fl. ^thiop. p. 144 ; Barkhausia Sch'niperi\ Schultz 

 Bip. I. c. ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 446 ; .-^ Homalocline Schimperi, 

 Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 285. 



WUe ]band. Abyssinia, Schimper! 5,700-9,300 ft. alt., Q. Dillon, Petit. 

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