Geigeria] Lxxi. composite, 571 



sionally with the midrib branched a little above its base, flat or 

 nearly so, } to 1 in. long, the margin narrowly cartilaginous, entire ; 

 capitula heterogamous, radiate, xantho-homochromous, many- 

 flowered, solitary, terminal or subterminal, sessile or subsessile, 

 erect, with a campanulate not turbinate base and a spreading 

 apex ; involucre about }^ in. in diameter ; involucral scales pluri- 

 seriate, imbricate, more or less acute, glabrous at least below, the 

 outermost ones foliaceous, :^ to ^ in. long, the intermediate ones 

 scale-like witli terminal foliaceous appendages some of them 

 shorter than the outermost foliaceous ones, the innermost broadly 

 lanceolate, gradually acuminate to an acute apex, wholly scarious, 

 ciliolate on the margin, a little shorter than the florets of the 

 disk ; ray-florets few, female, the corolla ligulate, the ligule 

 yellow, spreading, recurved, nerved, tridentate at the apex, style- 

 branches elongated and far-exserted ; corolla of the hermaphrodite 

 multiseriate disk-florets tubular, membranous, yellow, 5-cleft, 

 the lobes lanceolate, erect-connivent, truncate-denticulate at the 

 apex ; anthers produced at the apex into narrowly lanceolate 

 acute appendages and at the base into filiform tails ; style- 

 branches similar to those of the ray-florets, long, slender, almost 

 subulate ; achenes of the disk-florets rather short (ttV in. long), 

 somewhat compressed and obconical, wrapped in long ascending 

 pilose hairs ; pappus coroniform, consisting of numerous densely 

 contiguous pluriseriate scarious lanceolate very acute somewhat 

 spreading palefe ; areola at the apex of the achene pretty large, 

 bearing in the centre the reddish hemispherical nectary; receptacle 

 depresso-convex, densely fimbrillate with tall setse. 



HuiLLA. — In sunny situations, among very low bushes, near Mum- 

 pulla ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3987. 



3. G. acicularis 0. Hoflm. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. i. p. 82. 



HuiLLA.— A slender heath-like shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, the whole 

 plant especially the leaves and capitula resinous-viscid ; stem straight, 

 naked from the base far up, woody, corymbosely branched towards the 

 apex ; capitula homogamous, discoid, yellow ; the involucre cylindrical- 

 campanulate, involucrate at the base with the upper stem-leaves ; 

 involucral scales pluriseriate, the outer ones broad scarious obtuse and 

 mucronate, the inner ones gradually longer and acuminate, the inner- 

 most ones equalling the disk ; all erect and imbricate ; flowers yellow; 

 corollas all tubular, 5-cleft, flatly compressed : the tube gradually and 

 but little widened from the base, glabrous ; the lobes lanceolate, 

 acuminate, strictly erect, connivent and denticulate at the apex ; 

 anthers acute and exserted at the tips, tailed at the base, the tails long, 

 simple and subulate ; style included, gradually dilated upwards, its 

 branches lanceolate erect flattened and very sparingly puberulous ; 

 achenes obconical, rather short, greatly narrowed at the base, densely 

 beset with long slender hairs which invest the pappus at the base : the 

 scales of the paleaceous pappus 10, broad, hyaline, whitish, obtuse or 

 incise-denticulate, 5 of them with and 5 without a long hyaline subulate 

 bristle ; receptacle narrow, densely setose. In pastures among low 

 bushes between MumpuUa and Humpata, at an elevation of 4000 ft., 

 abundant : fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3936. 



