456 Lxxiii. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND hiern). [Ueichardia. 



usually denticulate, sessile, lJ-6 in, long or the uppermost smaller, 

 mostly cordate semiamplexicaul. Capitula -1—1 in. long. Involucral 

 bracts broadly ovate ^-f in. long. — Ascherson in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 ^thiop. p. 154 ; Piaridium tingitanum, Desf. Fl. Atl. ii. p. 220 (1800) ; 

 DC. Prodr. vii. p. 182, cum syn. ; P. arabicum^ Hochst. et Steud. in 

 Herb. Schimp. Arab. ii. 833 ; DO. I.e. ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 466. 



XTile l^and. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Q. DU/on, Hildehrandt! Nubia fide 

 Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 286. 



Widely spread under various forms in the Mediterranean region ; occurs also in 

 N.W. India. 



115. DIANTHOSEBIS, Schultz Bip. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 



PI. ii. p. 527. 



Capitula homogaraous, ligulate. Involucre broadly campanulate 

 or hemispherical or cylindrical ; bracts imbricated. Receptacle flat, 

 naked. Ligule truncate, 5-dentate at the tip. Anther-base sagittate ; 

 auricles acute or shortly setaceous-acuminate. Style-branches slender. 

 Achenes (immature) oo-c6state, smooth, slightly constricted not beaked 

 at the apex. Pappus copiously setose, smooth. — Dwarf or acaulescent 

 herbs with fusiform roots, crowded leaves passing into the involucral 

 bracts and yellow flowers. 

 A genus peculiar to this Flora. 



Capitula many-flowered, sessile 1. /). Schimperi. 



Capitula 9-10-flowered on short scaly scapes 2. D. Riippellii. 



1. 2D. Scblmperi, Schultz Bip. in Flora, 1842, p. 440 ; et in 

 Herb. Schimp. Abyss, ii. n. 755. Acaulescent perennial herb, with a 

 thick dark tapering rootstock. Radical leaves numerous, in a rosette, 

 spathulate or sublinear, obtuse, subentire or repand-denticulate, 

 1-1^ in. long. Capitula sessile, broadly campanulate or hemispherical, 

 ^1 in. diameter, many-flowered. Involucral bracts gi'een, imbricated ; 

 the outer ones ovate short ; the inner lanceolate-oblong. — A. Rich. Fl. 

 Abyss, i. p. 468. 



zrile Ziand. Abyssinia, Schimperi 



2. SI. Riippellii, Schultz Bip. in Flora, 1842, p. 440. About 

 1^ in. high. Leaves numerous, forming a radical rosette, grey-green, 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate with a callous tip and whitish callous 

 teeth, glabrous, the larger to about 1 in. in length by IJ lines broad. 

 Scape under ^ in. with numerous lanceolate and ovate- lanceolate acu- 

 minate white-bordered squamae, more numerous above and passing into 

 the involucre. Capitula 9-10-flowered. Involucre cylindrical about 

 2 lines broad, scales glabrous, the outer much shorter than the inner, 

 ovate and elongate-lanceolate with broad white membranous margins 

 and herbaceous midrib which is thickened below ; inner long bracts 5-8, 

 linear-lanceolate. Corollas yellow when dry, red beneath. — Fresenius 

 in Mus. Senck. iii. 77 (description without name). 



ITile Xiand. Abyssinia, Ruppell. 

 Description taken from Fresenius, I.e. 



