Laciuca.'] Lxxiir. coMPOSiTiE (Oliver and hiern). 453 



11-flcwered, on bracteolate pedicels ranging np to 1^ in, long, in a 

 loosely panicled cyme. Flowers white or yellow or blue. Inner invo- 

 lacral bracts usually 8. Achenes compressed, dark brown, 1 -ribbed 

 on each side, with a long pale neck at top. Pappus pale-yellowish or 

 nearly white. — DC. Prodr. vii. p. 136. Harv. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 526, 

 with synonymy. 



ITpper Guinea. Caroeroons Mountains, JV/rm?? / 5,000-7,500 ft. alt. ? Senegam- 

 bia, Lelierre ! (young specimens in young flower with rudimentary leaves in Hb. 

 Berol.) 



Mozamb. Sistr. Between Sonna and Lupata, Kirh ! Shupauga, Kirk ! IMo- 

 ramballa, Waller! 



Occurs also in Southern and Eastern districts of the Cape Flora. 



5. Zi. abyssinica, Fresen. in Mus. Senek. iii. p. 72 (1839), e^ 

 descri'ptione. An erect nearly glabrous glaucescent robust herb, 3 ft. 

 high or more. Stem terete, smooth, rigid, straight. Lower leaves 

 pinnatifid- or sinuate-dentate; upper leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 nsually undivided, margins quite entire or aculeate-denticulate, sessile, 

 semi-amplexicaul, bi-auriculate, ranging up to 6 in. long, midrib 

 smooth or nearly so, auricles lanceolate, acute, ranging up to ■§• in. 

 long or more, entire or denticulate. Capitula -|— | in. long, on short 

 or sometimes elongated bracteolate pedicels, in an elongated or diffuse 

 cyme. Inner involucral bracts 8. Florets 10-13, violet. Achenes 

 dark reddish brown, 1-ribbed on each side, terminating in a pale slen- 

 der neck about as long as the body. Pappus yellow at base. — A. Rich. 

 Fl. Abyss, i. p. 462. 



wile ILand. Sennaar, Kotschy ! Mittu-land, Schweinfurth ! Niaraniam-land, 

 Schweinfurth / Ahyssmia,, Schimper ! Buppell. 



6. Xi. virosa, Linn. S}). PI. ed. i. p. 795 (1753). Erect glauces- 

 cent annual or biennial, about 1-3 ft. high. Stem simple up to the 

 inflorescence, usually aculeate-setose below, terete, striate above. 

 Stem-leaves erect-patent, obovate- oblong, undivided, sinuate-toothed 

 or runcinate, sagittate- am plexicaul, sessile, subeutire or aculeate-den- 

 ticulate, 1-4 in. long or more. Capitula ^-\ in. long, on very short 

 pedicels, in a cyme with spreading branches. Inner involucral bracts 

 about 8, obtuse. Florets about 11, yellow. Achenes striate, dark 

 brown in L. virosa proper, or in L. Scuriola, Linn., greyish brown, 

 hispidulous near the top of the body, which terminates in a slender 

 beak of nearly the same length. Pappus white or nearly so. 



Xrile Xiand. Abyssinia, 6000 ft. ah., Schimpcr ! Cordofan, Kotschy ! 



Widely spread over Europe, Egypt, N. India, etc. 



Perhaps identical with the Cape species L. Dregeana, DC. 



L. Serricla, Linn. Cent. ii. PI. n. 189 (Propos. Tomer. June 11, 1766), i.e. L. Sea 

 rtWa, Linn. Sp. PI. edit. ii. p. 1119 (1763), appears to diifer from L. virosa, only by 

 the less dark achenes. 



7. Xi. Kochstetteri, Schulfz Bip. in Herh. ScMvip. Abyss, i. n. 

 128. Branched perennial, 2-24 in. high or more. Root-stock thick. 

 Branches glabrous, slender, terete. Lower leaves mostly runcinate- 

 dentate, glabrous or puberulous, l-|-3 in. long or more ; upper leaves 

 distant, mostly pinnatipartite, with distant lanceolate-linear acute 



