Gnidia. | CXVIII. THYMELHACEE (PEARSON). 223 
9000 ft., Volkens, 1904! Usambara; Mlalo, Holst, 252. British Central Africa: 
Nyasaland, Mount Mlanji, Whyte ! 
Var. hirsuta, H. H. W. Pearson. Leaves and stems more or less densely 
hirsute.—G@. Holstii, Gilg in Engl. and Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 257 partly; Engl. 
in Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 283. Struthiola Holstii, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 165. 
Wile Land. Uganda: Nandi, 7000-8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6966! Upper Mau 
Plateau, Whyte ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usangu, Goetze, 1258! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; between Mpata and the Tanganyika Plateau, 2000- 
3000 ft., Whyte! Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte! Tuchila Plateau, 
Purves, 112! 
Also in South Africa, 
16. G. caduca, H. H. W. Pearson. Flowering stems erect, 
simple or little-branched, 15-18 in. high, glabrous. Leaves somewhat 
crowded, linear, sessile, acute, stiffly papery, glabrous, 4-3 in. long. 
Heads 20-25-flowered ; involucral bracts 5, scarious, ovate, acute, 
glabrous, caducous. Flowers 4-merous, very shortly pedicelled. Calyx- 
tube terete, very densely clothed with short depressed silky hairs, 
especially below the articulation, }—3 in. long; lobes ovate-subrotund, 
densely silky-pilose on the under side. Petals linear, membranous, 
glabrous, 4-4 lin. long. Ovary glabrous.—G. denudata, Gilg in Ann. 
Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 97, not of Lindl. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: between Dadacci Utoca and Bidduma, Ruspoli & 
Riva, 1305! 
17. G. rubrocincta, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 259. Flowering 
stems numerous, erect, slender, unbranched, 4—7 in. high, arising from 
a thick woody rhizome. Leaves distant, linear, flat, more or less 
rounded at the apex, with red margins, glabrous, 3-3 in. long, 
1-14 lin. broad. Heads 15-flowered; involucral bracts 6-7, ovate, 
acuminate, thin, recurved during flowering, green with red margins, 
about equal in length to the flowers, 2 lin. broad at the base. Flowers 
4-merous, red or fiery-red pedicelled ; pedicel short, villous with erect 
hairs. Calyx-tube filiform, slender, densely pubescent, }—} in. long; 
lobes ovate-oblong, sparsely clothed on the back with brown pubescence, 
2-14 lin. long, about 3 lin. broad at the base. Petals obovate, some- 
what concave towards the apex, rather thick, about % as long as the 
calyx-lobes, Ovary glabrous. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Quango (Kuango) River, Pogge, 209! 
18. G. fruticulosa, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 207. A small 
woody plant, 2—3 in. high, with an ascending woody rhizome; flowering 
stems numerous, more or less crowded, simple or more rarely branched, 
prostrate or ascending. Leaves alternate, sessile, crowded on the lower 
part of the stem, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, acute or apiculate, 
glabrous, coriaceous, }-3 in. long. Heads terminal, 12—18-flowered ; 
involucral bracts 5-6, oblong or obovate-oblong, sessile, acuminate, 
acute or apiculate, glabrous, rather shorter than the flowers, Flowers 
