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mersis crebro seas Folia 0-5-2-0 cm. long., 0: hi 15 cm. lat., 
rsa et gradatim _miniata, nonnulla usque ad 0:2 cm. 
prose erecta vel patula, ima basi — Sona: ‘media ng 
g.,; 1°83 cm. 
eminente percursa. Capitula circa 1-3 cm 
= ae phylla extima 0- 2-0-4 oo long. ; medi sists 
long., deorsum 0:2 cm. lat.; ma latiora et aot 
aa interruptis brunneo-rubris notata. Plaves albi. Aiyll $e 
ape Acheenia obscure costata, more i basi dense vilken, 
0:2 cm. long., 0°15 cm. lat. Pappus 0°8 em. long., albus. 
re very distinct ape) with heads somewhat like those of 
D. tomentosum Cass. The densely branched habit, small leaves, 
and heads set on the top of the branchlets some distance above the 
uppermost leaves, are points by which this species can easily be 
ay amare among North- Kioan ones. 
The style-arms of Dicoma are usually described as ‘very 
short,” ad this, at least in the case of specimens examined by me, 
is amistake. The organs in question are elongated and thong-like, 
and, ex cept a at the tip, very closely adpressed,—so closely, indeed, 
that it requires a little patience to separate them, though in all pro 
bability they come mips spontaneously at an "advanced stage of 
What I mean will be readily understood on reference hg 
Fitch’s excellent ‘paso of D. karaguensis Oliv. in Trans. Linn 
vol. xxix. t. 70. I have no doubt that the #hble of what Tooks 
me having had exactly the same appearance until separation of the 
two arms had been effected. 
Lasiostelma somalense Schlechter. Ramis virgatis, teretius- 
culis, glabris, aphyllis, squamulis tantum minutis acuminatis hine 
inde obsessis ; racemo elongato laxe plurifloro; floribus illis hid 
Gerrardi Schltr. (Brachystelmaria Gerrardi Schlecht.) paulo minori- 
bus geminis in axillis squamorum, graciliter pedicellatis; a ie 
filiformibus glabris, flori fere equilongis; calycis segmentis lanceo 
latis acutis glabris, erecto- patentibus, corolle tubo mr 
0-4 cm. longis; corolla campanulata 1-5 cm. longa, alte fissa, tubo 
cupuliformi hemispherico, segmentis erecto- a ligulato- 
spathulatis, — apiculatis, extus glabris, intus 08 pyr 
pilis fuscato-purpureis dense barbatis; corona cupuliform 
mentis 5 Gecoebus "pifidis, foliolis 5 interioribus ligalatis ec 
_ — duplo fere excedentibus, glaberrim 
tra Somalorum, loco speciali haud sndienti. 
The ; genus Lasiostelma was founded by Bentham in the Gen. Pl. 
and placed by him into the tribe “tang and the first species 
was published by Oliver in Icones Plantaru 1449. 
In 1898 a plant was owt me Mr. "J. M. Wood in Na tal, 
which I found to be a genus of Ceropegicae = published it as 
jaieese uk xb thinking ‘that Bentham could have made the 
mistake o ing it in Marsdeniee. After consulting the type in 
ew poset may ine ast visit there of Lasiostelma Sandersoni, I saw to 
my great surprise that it was my Brachystelmaria. 
