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FLORA OF ADEN. 
high ; branches sub-terete, striate. Leaves linear or oblanceolate, deltoid 
or sub-acute at apex, usually apiculate, gradually narrowed towards 
the base, sessile, entire or with a few irregular remote teeth above, 
\ inches long by inch wide; uppermost smaller, bract-like, 
subulate. 
Capitula campanulate, 18 — 30-flowered, J | inch long, solitary at the 
ends of the numerous pedunculiform branches. Scales of the involucre 
pauciseriate, acute, falling short of the florets ; inner linear-lanceolate, 
with scarious margins ; outer shorter, linear-subulate, often recurving. 
Receptacle alveolate ; margins of alveoli toothed. Florets at first yellow, at 
length purple. 
Aclienes oblong, \ inch long, 10 — 12-costate, with scattered rather rigid 
-hairs. Pappus biseriate, subfulvous ; inner subplumose ; outer £ as long, 
sub paleaceous, multifid. 
Flowers: — April 1894 (Lunt). 
Locality : — Goldmore Valley, 100 feet (Lunt). 
Distribution : — -Senegambia, Kouka, Nubia, ? Abyssinia, Cape Verde 
Islands, Tropical Arabia. 
(Oliver and Hiern in FI. trop. Afr. mention also Sind, but Cooke has- 
not included this species in his Flora of the Bombay Presidency.) 
5. Pulicaria Gaertn. 
Annual or perennial usually woolly or villous herbs. Leaves alter- 
nate, sessile, often cordate-amplexicaul. 
Heads yellow, solitary, rayed and heterogamous, or disciform 
and homogamous ; ray-flowers female, 1 — 2 senate ; disk-flowers 
slender, hermaphrodite, fertile. Involucre hemispheric or obconic ; 
bracts few-seriate, subequal or the outer shorter, linear, acute or 
subobtuse. Receptacle flat or sub-convex, pitted. Corollas of female 
flowers ligulate or tubular, those of the hermaphrodite flowers regular, 
tubular, slender, the limb elongate, slightly enlarged, shortly 5-fid. 
Anther-bases sagittate, with minute auricles ; tails capillary, simple or 
branched. Style-arms of hermaphrodite flowers linear, obtuse, slightly 
flattened, a little broader upwards. Pappus double, the outer row of 
short jagged teeth or a fimbriate cup ; inner of smooth, scab rid or bearded, 
filiform or flattened hairs, often caducous. 
Achenes terete or ribbed. 
Species about 24. 
Distribution : — Europe, Africa, Asia, abundant in the Mediterranean 
region. 
Leaves narrow, linear or spatlmlate-linear, coriaceous . . . 1. P. glutinosa. 
tciwea lanceolate, not coriaceo’ . . . . . , 2. P. adenensis. 
