222 OXVIII. THYMELHACEE (PEARSON). [ Gnidia. 
short axillary branches; involucral bracts 5, scarious, brown (when 
dry), oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, glabrous, 3-3 as long as 
the flowers. Flowers 4-merous, pedicelled; pedicel 4—2 lin. long, 
bearing a brush of long erect white hairs. Calyx-tube glabrous below 
the articulation, pubescent above, {-4 in. long; lobes oblong, rounded 
at the apex, puberulous or pubescent without, about 1 lin. long. 
Petals subspathulate, fleshy, $-? lin. long. Ovary glabrous.—Meisn. 
in DC. Prodr. xiv. 589; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 309; Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 922. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: on the descent from Sana to Terrfera, Schimper, 770! 
Shireh, Quartin-Dillon ! 6800 tt. above Lake Amogai, Schimper, 950! and without 
precise locality, Plowden ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Welwitsch, 6481 ! 
14. G. Usafuz, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 363. A much- 
branched shrub with erect glabrous branches. Leaves very nume- 
rous, scattered, linear-lanceolate, glabrous, very shortly but distinctly 
petioled, 4-1 in. long, 1 lin. broad. Heads numerous, in a more 
or less corymbose inflorescence, many-flowered; involucral bracts 
about 6, in 2 series, broadly elliptic, scarious, glabrous, about 4 as 
long as the flowers. Flowers 4-merous, pedicelled; pedicel villous 
with erect silky hairs, 1-2 lin. long. Calyx-tube slender, glabrous 
below the articulation, pubescent above, with 8 projecting white 
longitudinal ridges within, 4-4 in. long; lobes short, oblong. Petals 
oblong, thickened, truncate and minutely toothed at the apex, 4-4} as 
long as the calyx-lobes. _Ovary glabrous ; style lateral. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa ; Usafua, Goetze, 1042! 
15. G. fastigiata, Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 41. 
A low shrub about 1 ft. high. Branches numerous, erect, arising from 
a woody rootstock, pubescent with long erect hairs when young, later 
glabrescent. Leaves crowded, suberect, stiff, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
l-nerved, hirsute when young, later glabrous or bearing a few long 
adpressed hairs, about 3 in. long, 4-1 lin. broad. Heads 1-3-flowered, 
sessile or very shortly stalked in the axils of the leaves of the upper- 
most 1-3 in. of the stem; involucral bracts 2—4, similar to or smaller 
than the leaves, pubescent. Flowers 4-merous, minutely pedicelled; 
pedicel bearing a dense brush of short erect white hairs. Calyx-tube 
dilated below, contracted above the ovary, funnel-shaped above, densely 
villous with erect hairs, 2-3 lin. long; lobes oblong or ovate, rounded 
at the apex, about $lin. long. Petals split to the base; segments very 
thinly membranous, unequal in size, glabrous, oblong, entire or more 
or less emarginate, about $-}lin. long. Ovary pubescent; style arising 
laterally. Mature fruit ovoid, 1-1} lin. long; pericarp thin, mem- 
branous, loosely enclosing the seed; testa hard, brittle.—G. Holstii, 
Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. 257 partly; var. kilimandscharica, Gilg 
in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 283. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; above the River Useri, 
