Achyrocline.]  LXxtII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HTERN). 341 
Leaves ovate or oval, acute, narrowed at the base, obscurely crenulate, 
petiolate, 14-2 in. long by 4-11 in. wide, uppermost smaller. Capitula 
campanulate-oblong, } in. long, 4-5-flowered, sessile, crowded in dense 
corymbose or globose cymes terminating the stem and branches. 
Scales of involucre pauciseriate, imbricated, scarious, shining, whitish ; 
inner oval-oblong, subobtuse, glabrous, subherbaceous below ; outer 
ovate, acute or subacute, woolly below, often purplish at base. Recep- 
tacle narrow, naked. Achenes glabrous.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 428; 
A. (Gnaphalium) adoénsis, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sect. i. 
n. 41; Gnaphalium Schimperi, Schultz Bip. lc. i. n. 393 ; Gnaphalium, 
sp. n. 1, Thoms. in Speke Journ., App. p. 638. 
Abyssinian name Subhinaday. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! Karagué, Speke and Grant / 
Mozamb. Distr. Manganja Hills, Dr. Meller / 
6. A. sclerochlena, Schultz Bip. mss. in Hb. Berol. Erect, 
branched, lanate-tomentose, perennial herb 24 ft. high; branches terete 
ascending. Leaves oval or oblong, subapiculate, sessile, scarcely nar- 
Towed to the amplexicaul base, 1-2 in. long by $-3 in. wide, densely 
te beneath, less so above. Capitula oblong, } in. long, 8-9-flowered, 
sessile, in dense subglobose branched terminal rounded cymes about 
2 in. diameter. Scales of involucre about 12, of nearly equal length, 
Pauciseriate, loosely appressed, subacute, shining, of pale straw colour, 
Scarious above, more coriaceous below ; inner linear-oblong, glabrous ; 
outer oval or ovate-oblong, woolly at base outside. Receptacle naked, 
small, 9 f.5-6; U f.3. Achenes glabrous, somewhat compressed. 
Pappus scabrous, white—Vatke in Linnea xxxix. p. 489 (1875) ; 
halium sclerochlenum, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Beitr. FI. 
thiop. p. 149, n. 778. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
37, GNAPHALIUM, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 805. 
Capitala heterogamous, discoid, outer florets 9 2-c -seriate, disk- 
florets fewer 1-15 9. Involucre campanulate or ovoid of 2—3-multi- 
Seriate more or less Scarious imbricate white yellowish or brown 
ets outer usually shorter. Receptacle naked or minutely fimbrilli- 
Ach U8. Female florets filiform. Anther-base sagittate, finely tailed. 
chenes subterete or slightly compressed, pappus uniseriate setaceous. 
Herbaceous (or frutescent) woolly or tomentose, with alternate entire 
faves, and clustered or variously cymose, rarely solitary, capitula, 
A large widely dispersed genus, including some almost cosmopolitan species. 
4Ve8 all sess} i 
nvolucre of a dene tows cures. . 2 «1. G. melanospherum. 
Xvolucre of a straw colour. iti 
ermaphrodite florets 1-3 in each capitulum . . 2. G. Petitianum. 
a ite florets in each capitulum. . 
oe auriculate at the base ie ie ath, ae & tacatbone 
I, ves semi-amplexicaul, not auriculate. - 4, G. luteo-album. 
RVolucral scales white at the tip. 
ves flattened, linear, 
