Gnaphaliwm.| LXxXIUI. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 343 
3-44 in. wide. Scales of the involucre pauciseriate ; inner linear or 
linear-oblong, slightly dilated above, quite obtuse, glabrous, straw- 
coloured; outer oval, rounded, thinly woolly at base. Receptacle 
narrow, prominent, foveolate, dentate. 9% fl. 3-5. Achenes obovoid, 
glabrous, somewhat compressed. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Petit! 
4. G. luteo-album, Linn.; DO. Prodr. vi. p. 230. Herbaceous, 
Sometimes woody at base, erect ascending or decumbent, simple or 
branched, 4-11 ‘ft. high. Stem and branches cottony, striate, sub- 
terete. Leaves spathulate, obtuse, or linear and sometimes acute, 
sessile, semi-amplexicaul, cottony on both sides, especially beneath, 
sometimes glabrate above, entire or vaguely crenulate, 1-3 in- long by 
7-3 1n. wide; upper smaller. Capitula campanulate, many-flowered, 
$ in. long, sessile or subsessile, many together without intervening leaves, 
Mm crowded clusters at the ends of the stem and branches and from the 
upper axils, in corymbose or somewhat elongate cymes. Scales of 
involucre pauciseriate, straw-coloured; innermost linear obtuse or 
subacute; intermediate ovate-lanceolate, obtuse; outer ovate, obtuse, 
Woolly at base. Receptacle naked, flat, closely tubercled, /; in. diam., 
¥ florets 4-9. Achenes oblong, subterete or slightly compressed, 
minutely papillose, otherwise glabrous. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Expedition, Barter / Senegambia, Perrottet ! 
Bromfinn ! md. Abyssinia, Schimper! Q. Dillon and Petit! Nubia, Kotschy ! 
A cosmopolitan weed. 
5. G. Steudelii, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. i. n. 281. 
Herbaceons, erect, simple or branching at base, usually branched 
above, 1-9 +, high. Branches erect or ascending, terete, striate, 
cottony above, leafy. Leaves linear, acute, somewhat auricled and 
amplexicaul at the base, closely lanate beneath, nearly glabrate above, 
entire, 1-3 in, long, y~y-+ in. broad. Capitula campanulate, 3 in. 
long, subsessile, several together, in dense clusters arranged in broad 
™minal’corymbose cymes. Innermost involucral scales linear or linear- 
oblanceolate, with acute or subacute whitish membranous appendices ; 
intermediate linear-oblong, obtuse; outer obovate-oblong, obtuse, 
Woolly, Receptacle naked, flat; % florets about 5; ¢ florets very 
numerous, filiform, minutely toothed. Achenes very small, glabrous, 
obtusely angular.— Helichrysum Steudelii, Schultz Bip. l. . ; A. Rich. 
- Abyss. i. p, 421. 
Abyssinian name, Subhinaday. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Parkyns! 
zamb. Distr. Manganja hills, Dr. Meller 
.. 5. @, Unionis, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sect. i. n. 175, 
11179. Annual herb, occasionally creeping and rooting, prostrate 
7, ascending, branched from the crown of the root, lanate, 1 in—1 ft. 
aa aves linear, subacute or obtuse, mucronulate, sessile, subam- 
Plexicanl, entire, lanate on both surfaces, 4-1 in. long by yy-4 in. 
