344 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [Gnaphaliui. 
wide. Capitula campanulate, .,-} in. long, crowded in terminal 
sessile subglobose often involucrate or shortly pedunculate clusters, 
4-lin. diam. Scales of involucre sub-triseriate; inner linear or 
jinear-oblanceolate, subacute or obtuse, white at tips; outer ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, woolly outside at base. 
% florets 6-8-15. Achenes minutely papillose.— Schultz Bip. m. 
Beitr. Schweinf. Fl. Aithiop. p. 150; G. uliginosum, A. Rich. Fi. 
Abyss. i. p. 431, non Linn.; G. nubiewm, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. 
Fl. Athiop. p. 149 (form with elongated procumbent rooting branches 
and often obtuse outer involucral scales). 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! Cordofan, Kotschy! 
_ Differs from G. uliginosum, Linn., by the white tips of the inner scales of the 
involucre. 
7. G. stenophyllum, 0. § H. Cespitosely branched. Branches 
decumbent, woody-wiry, dark-ashen, and rooting below, whitish and 
leafy above. Leaves narrowly linear-needleshaped, fleshy, subterete, 
acute or apiculate, sessile, subfalcate, 2-4 in. long; marginal lines 
approximated, white, closely cottony, decurrent. Capitula 4 in. long, 
campanulate-oblong, clustered a few together at the ends of the leafy 
branches. Involucres cottony below, glabrous, dilated and white 
above; inner scales linear-oblong, obtuse, white and spreading towards 
the tip. Female florets in many rows, outer ; hermaphrodite florets 
central, about 12. Anthers tailed. Pappus uniseriate, whitish, silky, 
abont 4 in. long, nearly equalling the florets, deciduous in one pieces 
setee somewhat branched above. Achenes glabrous.—Anazeton septen- 
trionalis, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. xxvii. 194 (1877). 
Mozamb. Distr. Inhambane, in dry sandy fields, Peters! 
8. @. pulvinatum, Del.; DO. Prodr. vi. p. 231. Diffuse oF 
prostrate annual, lanate-tomentose all over; branches numerous, 
spreading, slender, terete, 3-5 in. long. Leaves spathulate, more OF 
less obtuse, mucronate, attenuate at the base into the short petiole, 
3-4 in. long. Capitula campanulate, } in. long, crowded in subglobose 
leafy or involucrate terminal clusters, about in. diam. Scales 0 
involucre sub-triseriate, lanate, linear-lanceolate, subacute, membran- 
ous ; innera little longer than the florets, scarious, whitish or purplis 
at the apex. ¥ florets 4-6. 9 numerous. Achenes glabrous 
nearly so. 
Wile Land. Cordofan, Kotschy! White Nile, Schweinfurth ! : 
_ Occurs also in Egypt, and according to Boissier, F). Orient. iii. p. 225, also 10 
Scind and India. 
Y. @. niliacum, Raddi; DO. Prodr. vi. p. 231. Diffuse annual, 
3-10 in. high, branched at the base, thinly cottony in most parts ; 
branches rather numerous, spreading, decumbent or ascending: 
Leaves spathulate or obovate, rounded or obtuse, mucronulate atten- 
uate at the base into the short petiole, lanate especially om ihe 
margins and beneath, sometimes glabrate above, 3-14 in. long. Ca- 
pitula campanulate, 3 in. long, sessile in small dense terminal and 
subterminal shortly spiciform sessile clusters. Scales of involucté 
