FLORA OF AFRICA: COMPOSITE. 317 
long.  Antherarum caude barbellat:. Achenia 0'06  em., 
pappus 0:25 em. long. 
This might easily be mistaken for H. trilineatum, DC., which, 
besides belonging to the Lepicline division of the genus, has 
somewhat different leaves and flowering heads. The affinity of 
the present plant is with H. rutilans, DC., and its allies, but 
the rigid habit and small, very narrow leaves at once serve as 
marks of distinction. 
Henicurysum (Lepicline $ Plantaginea) VERBASCIFOLIUM, sp. 
nov. Planta herbacea omnimodo tomento densi griseo persis- 
tente obtecta, foliis radiealibus ovato-oblongis apiee mucronatis 
deorsum in petiolum caulem arcte amplectantem et lamina delapsa 
eundem obtegentem longe desinentibus basi plurinervibus sed 
costa centrali exempta nervis minime perspicuis, scapo ascen- 
dente folia excedente vel equante bracteis perpaucis oblongis 
gradatim imminutis onusto, capitulis parvis homogamis 13- 
floseulosis in glomerulum densiusculum aggregatis, involueri 
anguste campanulati inferne araneosi phyllis 4-serialibus ob- 
longis extimis breviter acuminatis intermediis  acutiuseulis 
intimis (que angustiora) obtusis omnibus lamina haud radiante 
sibi ipsis fere zquilonga phyll. ext. dilute brunnea phyll. reliq. 
lete aurea preditis, receptaculo fimbrillifero, flosculis inclusis, 
pappi setis scabridis pallide luteis. 
Hab. Nyika Plateau, Nyassaland; Miss Henderson. 
Folia 129:0-17:0 em. x 8:5-5:5 cm., basin versus modo 0:5-0:7 
em. lat.; petioli summum cirea 1:5 em. long. Scapus unicus 
mihi obvius 16:0 em. alt.; hujus bractea infima 7:0 em. x 17 em., 
summa modo 07 cm. long. Glomerulus 3:0 em. diam. Pedun- 
culi proprii fere 0:3 em. long. Capitula 0:9 em. long., ægre 
0'5 em. lat. Involueri phylla extima 0:'6-0:7 cm., interiora 
0°85 em. long.; intermedia 0:25 cem., intima 0:2 em. lat. Re- 
ceptaculum 0:15 em. diam. Corolle 0:45 em. long. Antherarum 
caude breviter barbellatse. Achænia O'L em., pappus 0°55 em. 
long. 
Close to H. nanum, Baker (Kew Bull. (1898) p. 150, non 
Klatt, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. (1896) p. 461), but with much 
larger leaves on shorter petioles, larger bracts to the scape, 
larger heads with broader involucral leaves, of which the inner 
ones are obtuse or at most obtusely acute, pubescent instead of 
7 9 
