Gnaphalium.] .Lxx111. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 345 
2-8-seriate; inner oval-oblong, subacute, nearly glabrous; outer 
lanate, shorter, margins scarious, midrib green not reaching the apex. 
Q florets 4-5. florets very numerous. Achenes oblong, slightly 
compressed, papillose-glandular, otherwise glabrous. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet / 
Nile Land. Nubia, Bromfield! Sennaar, Kotschy! Dar-Fertit, Schweinfurth! 
Occurs also in Egypt. Itis united by Boissier, Fl. Orient. iii. p. 226, with the 
Indian species G, indicum, Linn.—G. gracillimum, Perr. ex D.C. 1. c. 282, may be a 
state of G. niliacum. 
10. G@. purpureum, Linn.; DO. Prodr. vi. p. 232. Herb, 
6-12 in. high, simple or branched from the crown of the root; 
branches ascending, usually simple, thinly appressed lanate-tomentose. 
eaves spathulate to linear-oblong, rounded or obtuse at the apex, 
mucronulate, upper rarely subacute, attenuate at the base or upper 
slightly so, sessile or lower narrowed into the winged petiole, thinly 
appressed-lanate beneath, nearly glabrate above, with _few delicate 
velns, membranous, ranging up to 4 in. long by 1 in. wide. Capitula 
campanulate, 2 in. long, sessile, several together in subglobose ter- 
minal subterminal and axillary clusters, 1-4 in. diam. arranged in 
terminal leafy spikes. Inner involucral scales linear-oblong, obtuse, 
8carious ; outer ovate-oblong, acute, lanate. Receptacle nearly flat, 
naked or minutely papillose, 5 in. diam. % florets4 ; 9 florets 
very numerous. Achenes oblong, slightly compressed, yellowish, 
nearly or quite glabrous. 
Mozamb. Distr. Quilimane, Zambesi, Kirk / 
Widely spread both in the Old and New Worlds. 
UNKNOWN SPECIES. 
Gnaphalium itinerarii, Schultz Bip. ex Hochst. in Flora, 1841, i. App. p. 27, n. 
175 3, ig unknown to us. 
38. HELICHRYSUM, Gaert. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 309. 
Capitula heterogamous, discoid, outer florets 9 few or pauciseriate 
or ina few Species more numerous than the central 9 florets, or 
florets all 3. Involucre campanulate oblong or hemispherical; bracts 
multiseriate or more rarely pauciseriate, scarious, coloured, erect or 
More or less spreading. Receptacle naked or fimbrilliferous, smooth 
or foveolate. Pistillate florets filiform. ‘“ Anther-base sagittate appen- 
dicalate, Achenes small terete angled or but slightly compressed. 
4ppus barbellate——Herbaceous or frutescent, generally more or less 
anate or tomentose, with entire usually alternate leaves and solitary or 
variously cymose small medium or rather large capitula, often conspi- 
ean from the white straw-yellow or rose-colour of the involucral 
es, 
of a large Old World genus especially numerous at the Cape and in Australia. Most 
he following species appear to be peculiar to Tropical Africa. 
ptacle naked or shortly dentate. 
Florets all hermaphrodite. 
Capitula small, crowded in clusters. 
