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corymbosum sublaxum  pluricapitulatum digestis, flosculis 
omnibus hermaphroditis, involueri circa 6-seriati glabri phyllis 
extimis anguste oblongis phyllis serr. II. et IL). oblongo-ovatis 
phyllis interioribus quam hec paullo angustioribus sed gradatim 
longioribus omnibus obiusissimis scariosis erectis sursum aureis, 
receptaculo paleis oblongis dorso alato-carinatis onusto, acheniis 
glabris, pappi setis albis scabriusculis penitus attenuatis. 
Hab. Ruwenzori Mountain, 6000 feet; G. F. Scott Elliot, 
no. 7864. 
Folium radicale (petiolo basi amplificato incluso) 10:0 em. long., 
15 cm. lat.; cost laterales subtus conspicue ; folia caulina 
usque ad 6°5 cm. long. Capitula 0-4 em. long. et lat. Involucri 
phylia extima 0:2 cm. long., 0°08 cm. lat.; serr. II. et III. totidem 
long. et 0°15 cm. lat.; intima 0382 em. long., 0°12 em. lat. 
Flosculi 0°3 em. long., horum limbus 01 em. diam. Achenia 
adhuc immatura vix 0-1 em. long. Pappus 0°3 em. long. 
Allied to- Helichrysum gerberefolium, Sch. Bip., but different 
from it in leaf, shape of capitula, form of involucral leaves, &e. 
HeticurysuM cymosum, Less. 
Teita Mountains and Leikipia Plateau; Dr. J. W. Gregory. 
Masailand, Urundi, and Mt. Ruwenzori, 6000 feet; G. F. Scott 
Elliot, nos. 6843, 7721, 8306. 
Var. compactum, Vatke. 
Guaso Mairi, Ndoro, and terminal moraine of sheet glaciation, 
Mt. Kenia; Dr. J. W. Gregory. Mt. Kenia, 10,000 feet ; H. J. 
Mackinder, 1899. 
H. avricunarum, Less. 
Mt. Ruwenzori, 5-6000 feet; G. F. Scott Elliot, no. 7542. 
H. Lasrit, Engl. 
Mt. Milanji; 4. Whyte, no. 32. 
Rosenta, Thunb. 
R. auanpunosa, Thund. 
Cape Colony ; Francis Masson. 
ATHRIXIA, Ker. 
A. NYASsANa, sp. nov.; caule attenuato debili arcuato-ascen- 
dente araneoso sub apice solummodo breviter ramuloso coplose 
folioso, foliis elongatis patentibus acicularibus margine valde 
