570 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [MoUera 



the sessile or quasi-petiolate decurrenfc base, finely herbaceovis, 

 minutely toothed on the apical half or subentire, scabrid-puberulous 

 on both sides or minutely punctulate beneath, 2 to 3^ in. long by 

 i to I in. broad ; capitula heterogamous, radiate, homochromous, 

 yellow, broadly campanulate, |^ to | in. long, many-flowered; 

 involucral scales pauciseriate, imbricate, linear-oblong or -lanceo- 

 late, erect subacute, pubescent on the back, not very unequal, 

 J to i in. long ; receptacle naked ; ray-florets female, uniseriate, 

 rather few ; ligule puberulous on the back, glabrous on the face, 

 oblong, tridentate at the tip, spreading or recurved ; disk-florets 

 hermaphrodite, pluriseriate, numerous, unequal, tubular, mostly 

 exceeding the involucre; corolla puberulous outside, shortly 

 6-cleft; anthers about equalling the corolla, glabrous, produced 

 at the apex in lanceolate appendages, caudate at the base, the 

 tails slender; style about equalling the corolla, the branches 

 short, lanceolate-linear, somewhat flattened, rounded not truncate 

 at the apex ; achenes glabrous or minutely papillose, somewhat 

 angular, short ; pappus obsolete, represented by a narrow crenulate 

 or lobulate glabrous ring. 



Htjilla. — In wooded rocky thickets between MumpuUa and Lopollo 

 or Nene, at an elevation of 4000 to 4500 ft.; fl. and young fr. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 4004. 



36. GEIGERIAGriessel.;Benth.&Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 337; 

 0. Hofi'm. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. i. p. 79 (Feb. 1893). 



Thysanurus O. Hoffm. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. 5, p. 127 (1889). 



1. G. acaulis Benth. & Hook. f. ex Vatke in Oesterr. Zeitschr. 

 XXV. p. 327 (1875); 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 368; 

 nou 0. Kuntze. 



MosSAMEDES.^ — On rocky bushy slopes between Pomangala and 

 Quitibe, here and there abundant but the flowers nearly all fallen, 

 beginning of June 1860. No. 3480. A herb, either annual or probably 

 biennial or triennial according to locality or degree of exposure ; stems 

 short, prostrate ; leaves narrowly lanceolate, spread out on the ground 

 in a stellate manner ; outer involucral scales green at the base, purple 

 at the tip ; florets yellow. In rooky places at the hanks of the river 

 Bero, rather rare, July 1859. No. 3481. In hilly mountainous places 

 bet\teen Pomangala and Quitibe ; fr. Oct. 1895. Coll. Caep. 957. 



2. G. linosyroides Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 



A glabrous or subglabrous shrublet, 6 to 8 in. high ; rootstock 

 very thick, perennial, woody, many-headed; stems numerous, 

 erect or ascending, branched at the base or simple, occasionally 

 branching near the apex, slender, wiry, subherbaceous, glabrous, 

 somewhat angular with the narrow decurrence of the leaves, 

 leafy : leaves alternate, sublinear very narrowly elliptical or 

 oblanceolate, subacute, apiculate, sessile, narrowly decurrent, 

 rigid, thickly herbaceous, glabrous or occasionally scattered with 

 a, few setulse, suberect, pale yellowish-green, impressed on both 

 faces with small scattered darker-green points, uninerved or occa- 



