112 CONTRIBUTION TO THE FLORA OF GAZALAND. 
linearia, longe acuminata, in bracteas sensim transeuntia, Сута 5 mm. long., 
8-10 mm. diam. ; harum braetezee summæ 1'5 mm. long., vel etiam minus. 
Peduneuli proprii involucris suis sepissime breviores. — Involuera. 2x 1 mm. 
vel paullulum ultra; phylla extima 1:5 mm., interiora 1:8 mm. long. Corolle 
tubi pars attenuata 1 mm. long., fauces 0*2 mm., illa 015 mm. hæ 075 mm. lat. 
A plant with much the look of H. Dregeanum, Sond. & Harv., which has 
longer and narrower coriaceous leaves, larger heads, each with 20-25 florets, 
broader very obtuse involucral leaves, бе. 
HELICHRYSUM AURICULATUM, Less. Syn. 311. 
Near Chirinda, 3700 ft. : in fl. June ; n. 1358. 
Distrib, South tropical Africa and South Africa, 
Hemera AFRICANA, ©. Moore, sp. nov. (Pl. 5. figs. 1-3.) 
Suffrutex ramosus ramis subteretibus superne crebro foliosis ut folia tomento 
cinereo-albo obtectis, foliis sessilibus oblongo-ovatis obtusis basin versus ali- 
quanto angustatis levissime | decurrentibus utrobique | einereo-tomentosis 
trinervibus, capitulis parvulis florem unicum hermaphroditum includentibus 
in eymas breviter pedunculatas polycephalas confertas bracteatas tomentosas 
ordinatis, involucri angustissime cylindrici 5-serialis phyllis erectis exterioribus 
satis abbreviatis rotundatis obtusissimis vel emarginatis intermediis ovatis 
interioribus ovato-oblongis obtusis omnibus dilute citrinis, corollie ex involucro 
breviter eminentis tubo stricte cylindrico lobis 5 triangularibus acutis, anther- 
arum caudis simplicibus, acheeniis adhue. crudis ovoideo-oblongis compressi- 
useulis glabris ad normam generis omnino calvis. 
Hab. Chimanimani Mountains at 7000 ft. ; in fl. Sept. ; п. 1849. 
Folia 1-15 em. long. 5-8 mm. lat. Inflorescentize 2x 5:5-45 em. ; 
harum bractez folis similes nisi (summ: insigniter) minores, Pedunculi 
proprii brevissimi vel 0. Involucra 2:75 mm. long., 075-0775 mm. lat. ; phylla 
extima 1 mm. long., intermedia 1:5 mm., intima adusque 2:5 mm. Corolle 
flavee, 2:5 mm. long. Styli rami aliquanto applanati, truncati, penicillati, 
0-6 mm. long. Achenia 074 mm. long. 
Humea іх а genus hitherto supposed to be restricted to Australia, and if it 
is to be retained as distinct from Helichrysum, Г fail to see how the plant 
under notice can be excluded from Humea. А second African species is 
H. infausta (Helichrysum infaustum, Wood & Evans); a third H. epap- 
posa (Helichrysum epapposum, Bolus), and there are one or two more. They 
make up the $ Znfansta of Moeser (Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xlii. (1909) 458). 
ATHRIXIA OBLONGA, S. Moore, sp. nov. 
Herbacea саше erecto subtereti araneoso dense folioso, foliis sessilibus 
(raro subsessilibus) oblongis vel anguste oblongo-lanceolatis apice pungentibus 
basi obtusis margine distanter serrato-dentatis undulatisve dentibus pungent- 
ibus trinervibus coriaceis supra araneosis subtus griseo-araneoso-tomentosis, 
