Sonchus.'] Lxxm. composit-e (Oliver and hiern). 459 



irile Xiand. Djur-land, in open fields, near Seriba Ghattas, Schweinfurth ! 

 White Nile, N. Lat. 8° 45', the Mularto of the Arabs, Petherickl 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Zanzibar, Goodwin! Lower Valley of the Shire, Meller ! 

 Stewart! 7^° S. Lat. Used as spinach, Speke and Grant! Inhambane, Peters! 



Perhaps a distinct species. 



Var. ? exauricidatus, 0. & H. Leaves -without auricles, undivided, sometimes 

 obtuse. 



Mile ]Land. Djur-land. Heads about 20-flo-wered, leaves acute, &Awciw/wr^^/ 



r Mozaxnb. Bistr. Zanzibar. Heads about ll-flowered. Leaves obtuse, 

 apiculate, Hildcbrandt! 



These specimens again may form either one distinct spt-cies or possibly two inde- 

 pendent species, instead of a variety of the above species. 



5. S. cornutus, Hochst. in Herb. Kotscli. Nub. n. 157. Erect 

 perennial herb, ^2 ft. higli or more. Branches rather divaricate. 

 Leaves crowded near the base of the stem, obovate, spathnlate or pin- 

 nately lobed or toothed, apiculate, mostly narrowed at the base, sessile, 

 occasionally subanriculate, denticulate, 1-8 by ^-3f in. Capitula 

 campanulate-oblong, 20-2 7 -flowered, ?— | in. long, on bracteolate pedi- 

 cels of .-,-1^- in., in rather lax divaricate cymes. Inner involucral bracts 

 8-10, nearly glabrous, obtuse ; outer shorter. Achenes |-J in. long, 

 drab, about 10-striate, transversely scabrid-rugulose. Pappus white, 

 soft, \ in. long. 



Wile ]Land. Cordofan, Kotschy ! Gallabat, Schweinfurth! White Nile, 

 Schweinfurth ! Between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfurth ! 



6. S. Brunneri, 0. Sf H. A low shrubby herb, with glabrous 

 horizontal branches. Leaves spathulate or linear obtuse glabrous sessile 

 semi-amplexicaul, mostly auriculate, entire, 1-3 in. long. Capitula 

 oblong, apparently about 13- flowered, ^| in. long, on bracteolate 

 pedicels of ^2 in. long, few together, in lax cymes. Inner involucral 

 bracts about 8, lanceolate, more or less scarious. " Achenes tetragonous 

 elongated not attenuate at the apex, angles subacute, striate, the inner 

 ones densely squamulose." Pappus subtawny, ^ in. long. — Rhabdo- 

 theca Brumieri, Webb in Hook. Niger. Fl. p. 147 note ; Microrhynchus 

 Brunneri, Walp. Ann. ii. p. 976. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Sor Island, Brunner ! 



7. S. prenanthoides, 0. ^ H. Pale perennial herb, 1-3 ft. high, 

 divaricately branched, glabrous, glaucous, leafy at the crown of the 

 root, sparingly so above. Leaves pinnatifid-dentate or the upper ones 

 subentire, oblong, narrowed towards the amplexicaul base ; the lower 

 ones 2-6 in. long, scarcely petiolate ; the upper ones smaller, sessile, 

 auriculate. Capitula oblong, ^-| in. long, 20- 25.flowered, on bracteo- 

 late pedicels of ^-1^ in., in a divaricate cyme. Inner involucral bracts 

 about 5, lanceolate, scarious. Achenes J-^ in. long, subterete, slender, 

 somewhat tapering upwards, smooth, 10-costate. ]?appus soft, J— J in. 

 long. — ZolUkoferia jjrenantJwideSj Hochst. in Herb. Kotsch. I^ub. n. 

 427 ; Ehabdoiheca prenanthoides, Schultz Bip. in Aschers. Enum. 

 p. 286. 



worth Central. Kouka, E. Vogelf 

 Wile ]«and. Cordofan, Kotschy t 



