140 BOTANY OF SOCOTRA. 



south African, is distinguished from the chief type of the genus by the fleshy 

 glabrous habit, the homogamous flower heads, and the style branches usually 

 conical, often penicellate. 



S. (Kleinia) Scotti, Balf. fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. xi. (1882), 841. 

 Tab. XL. 



Perennis erectus glaber succulentus multo-rarnosus, caulibus subteretibus ; foliis remotis parvis 

 linearibus ; capitulis subcylindricis homogamis 6-8-floris ad extremitates ramorum 

 solitariis v. 2-3 in cymas breviter pedunculatas aggregatis ; phyllariis 5-6 liuearibus 

 cuspidatis floribus dimidio brevioribus ; receptaculo nudo ; acbeuiis subteretibus 10- 

 costatis brevibus rigidis setulis intercostalibus ; pappo corollse vix sequilongo. 



Perennis erectus rigidus glaber succulentus 1-2-pedalis multiramosus, caulibus ramisque subter- 

 etibus. Folia sessilia remota linearia obtusa v. acuta |— | poll, longa succulenta basi 

 incrassata et sublignosa supra basin leviter constricta mox decidua. Capitula pauca 

 bomogama 6-8-flora subcylindrica angusta £ poll, longa ad extremitates ramorum solitaria 

 v. in 2-3-capitatas cymas disposita, pedunculis validis ^ poll, longis ssepe 1-v. oo -bracteatis. 

 Involucri squamae extimse pauca? 1-2 subulatae v. omnes obsoletse ; pbyllaria 5-6 linearia 

 \- \ poll, longa cuspidata rigida costata marginata glabra sed cuspide ssepe brevissime 

 puberulo-ciliata floribus dimidio breviora. Reccptaculurn alveolatum nudum. Corolla 

 \ poll, longa, fauce ampliato, limbi lobis extus leviter puberulis. Styli lobi apiculati. 

 Achenia subteretia angusta 10-costata, costis subpunctulatis, intervallis breviter rigide 

 setulosis. Pappus corollse vix sequilongus. 



Socotra. On the Haghier range above Tamarida, at an elevation over 

 2500 feet. B.C.S. n. 446. Schweinf. (?) 



Distrib. Endemic. 



This is, I expect, a rare plant on the island. It was found by Scott only 

 in one locality on the granite peaks. 



It is quite a distinct species, and of considerable interest, belonging as it 

 does to a section of the genus almost exclusively south African. Its nearest 

 ally is S. (Kleinia) longijiorus, Oliv. and Hiern (in Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. iii. 

 421), a south African plant, found also in Abyssinia and some parts of tropical 

 Africa. Whilst resembling it closely, our plant is easily distinguished by the 

 subterete stems and the smaller and fewer flower heads. 



Schweinfurth sends specimens, without flower, of a plant he has cultivated 

 at Cairo from Socotran stock, which he supposes to be a Notonia. It may 

 be our Senecio Scotti, but the leaves are more obtuse and broader. 



15. EURYOPS. 



Euryops, Cass, in Bull. Philom. 1818, and in Diet. Sc. Nat. xvi. (1820), 49 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. 

 PL ii. 452. 



A genus of shrubs or half-shrubby plants, included in about thirty 

 species, mainly located at the Cape of Good Hope. One has a limited Arabian 

 distribution and another is found in Nile Land, but these are doubtfully distinct. 



