220 CXVIII. THYMELZACEX (PEARSON), [Gnidia. 
a stout woody rhizome. Leaves linear-oblong or -elliptic, subacute or 
rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous, very shortly petiolate, 
4-1 in. long, 2 lin. broad. Heads many-flowered, terminal or axillary, 
long-peduncled ; involucral bracts 5-6, broadly oblong or subrotund, 
rounded at the apex, thinly membranous, coloured, erect during flower- 
ing, about 2 as long as the flowers. Flowers bright pink or orange 
(Meller), 4-merous, pedicellate; pedicel about 4 lin. long, bearing 
a brush of long erect white hairs. Calyx-tube glabrous below the 
articulation, pubescent above, about 4-3 in. long; lobes narrowly ovate 
or oblong, rounded at the apex, pubescent without, 1-14 lin. long. 
Petals ovate, rounded at the apex, fleshy, about ? lin. long. Ovary 
glabrous.—Gilg in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 283. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kinga (Livingstone) Mountains, 
7500 ft., Goetze, 1231. Portuguese East Africa: near Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 468! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Stevenson Road, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-EHiliot, 
8291! Shire Highlands, Adamson, 29! Blantyre, Buchanan, 29! Scott! Mount 
Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Manganja 
Hills, 3000 ft., Meller! Mount Chiradzulu, Meller! Kirk! Ndurandi, Scoét- 
Elliot, 8473! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 125! 179! Rhodesia: 
Lukanda Valley, Allen, 472! 
9. G. mollis, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1906, 23. Stem 
stout, branched above the middle, shaggy-pubescent, 2 ft. high. Leaves 
crowded, linear-elliptic or oblong, acute or obtuse, narrowed at the base, 
densely shaggy-pubescent when young, later glabrescent above, puberu- 
lous on the margin and beneath, 4-3 in. long, }-} in. broad. Heads 
3-1 in. in diam., many-flowered, compact, terminal on the main or 
axillary leafy branches; involucral bracts 15-20, broadly lanceolate, 
densely pilose, about 4 as long as, the flowers. Flowers 4-merous, 
minutely pedicelled; pedicel bearing a brush of erect soft white hair. 
Calyx-tube very slender, glabrous below the articulation, densely 
shaggy-pubescent above, about 4 in. long; lobes oblong, obtuse, 
shaggy-pubescent without, about 3 lin. long. Petals minute, cylin- 
ae about } lin. Jong. Ovary glabrous. Fruit ovoid, about 14 lin. 
ong. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: lower plateau and higher plateau 
north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson! Portuguese East Africa: between Unungu and 
Lake Shire, 3000-4000 ft., Johnson, 12! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; 
Masisi, MeClounie, 169! 
10. G. apiculata, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 263, partly. A low 
shrub 13-3 ft. high; stems erect, much-branched, glabrous. Leaves 
alternate, crowded, linear or narrowly elliptic, narrowed at base and 
apex, acute, glabrous, indistinctly 3-nerved, 4-3 in. long, 4-2} lin. broad. 
Heads numerous, terminal and axillary, sessile or shortly peduncled, 
10—15-flowered ; involucral bracts in two series} outer 3—6 narrowly 
linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, leaf-like in texture or brown and 
papery; inner 4-8 broadly ovate, caudate-acuminate, glabrous or 
puberulous, brown, papery in texture, about } as long as the flowers. 
