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Glomerules pedunculate, globose, ebracteate, fuscous, 1-3 lines long ; 
peduncles erect, 1—1 1 lines long, with 1 — 2 sepaloid bracts. Flowers 
densely aggregate, densely setigerous from the accrescent sepals of the 
abortive flowers. Sepals ovate, concave, (those of the sterile flowers 
linear), setaceous in fruit ; setae entire. Petals 5, entire, shorter than 
the sepals. Stamens 5, inserted on a small annular disk. Ovary 1- 
celled, 2-ovuled ; style bifid. 
Utricle indehiscent, small, subchartaceous, 1-seeded. 
Species : 1 . 
Distribution : Arabia and Nubia. 
1, Spliaerocoma Hookeri Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 1 r 
tab. 3. 
Psyllothamnus Beevori Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PL ser. Ill, V, '/ 7, tab- 
1499. 
Characters of the genus. 
Flowers : — December 1888 (Schweinf.), December 1847 (Hooker), 
February 1851 (Thomson), April 1890 (DefL). 
Fruits : — March 1878 (Perry). 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley, northern] slope of the Shum Shum 
Range above Maala at a height of 830 feet (Defl.) ; northern side of the 
Shum Shum Range (Schweinf.) ; on the Shum Shum Range (Busse) ; 
without locality (Hooker, Thomson, Perry, Birdw.). 
Distribution : Soturba, Aden. 
3. Gypsopkila L, 
Perennial or annual, often glaucous herbs, rarely shrubby. Leaves 
usually flat, very rarely subulate. 
Flowers in panicled cymes, rarely solitary in the forks. Calyx 
turbinate, tubular or campanulate, 5-toothed or lobed, with 5 broad 
green nerves and membranous interspaces. Petals 5, claw narrow ; limb 
entire or notched, without (rarely with) a scale. Disk small. Ovary 
1-celled ; styles 2 (rarely 3) ; ovules many. 
Capsule 4-valved to or below the middle, few or many-seeded - 
Seeds subreniform, hilum lateral ; embryo lateral. 
Species about 50. 
Distribution : Europe and W. Asia, Somaliland. 
1. Gypsopkila montana Balf. f. in Proc. Rov. Soc. Edinb. Vol. 11. 
(1882), 501. 
Gypsophila somalensis Franch. Sert. Somal.in Miss. R^voil 14. 
Description .-—-A perennial herb ; stem woody, procumbent, much- 
branched ; branches ascendent, up to 2 feet long, glabrous, but often’ 
