Gnidia. | CXVIII. THYMELHACEE (PEARSON). 225 
21. G. stenophylloides, Gilg in Ann. TIstit. Bot. Roma, vi. 97. 
Flowering stems branched above, glabrous, 9-12 in. high. Leaves 
densely crowded, acicular, acute, subpungent, glabrous, 4—% in. long. 
Heads 15-—25-flowered ; involucral bracts 7-10, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate-acute, not coloured, densely pilose without, } as long as the 
flowers, Flowers 4-merous. Calyx-tube terete, 4 in. long, densely 
pilose; lobes ovate, acute, very densely pilose without. Petals linear, 
membranous, glabrous, $ lin. long. Fruit (immature) always crowned 
with silky hairs. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: between Surro and Bogono, Ruspoli-Riva, 187. 
22. G. microcephala, Meisn.in DC. Prodr. xiv. 589. Stems 
erect, numerous, loosely branched, glabrous, 14-2 ft. high, arising from 
an erect woody rootstock. Leaves alternate, more or less crowded, 
erect, linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, acute (the lower ones 
obtuse), with the median nerve prominent, }-# in. long, 4-1$ lin. broad 
(the lower even broader). Heads few-flowered (about 20), terminal on 
the main stem and the axillary branches; involucral bracts 8-12 in 
2 series; the outer narrow, leaf-like; the inner brown-straw-coloured, 
ovate, acuminate, acute, with a few silky hairs on the margin, otherwise 
glabrous, 3-8 as long as the flowers. Flowers 4-merous, pedicelled ; 
pedicel minute, bearing a brush of erect white stiff hairs. Calyx-tube 
pubescent, }-} in. long; lobes ovate or oblong, obtuse or rounded at 
the apex, pubescent on the outside, 1-2 lin. long. Petals cylindric or 
more or less club-shaped, about } as long as the calyx-lobes. Ovary 
glabrous. Mature fruit ovoid, 1-14 lin. long.—Rendle in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 40. G. apiculata, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 263, 
partly. Gnidiopsis microcephala, Van Tieghem in Bull. Soc. Bot. de 
France, xl. (1893), 76. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Namuli Hills, Makua Country, 
Last! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Magomero to Zomba, Meller ! Zoinba, 
2500-3500 ft., Meller! Whyte! Mount Mlanji, Whyte! and without precise 
locality, Buchanan, 89! 
Also in South Africa. 
23. G. ramosa, H. H. W. Pearson. An erect much-branched 
glabrous shrub with slender branches, about 3 ft. high. Leaves linear- 
oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, narrowed towards the base, very 
shortly but distinctly petioled, }-3 in. long, 1-1} lin. broad. Heads 
small, few-flowered, peduncled ; involucral bracts 5-6, ovate, abruptly 
acuminate, about } in. long. Flowers 4-merous, pedicelled; pedicel 
very short, pubescent, bearing a brush of long erect hairs at the summit. 
Calyx-tube pubescent, } in. long (? adult); lobes oblong, rounded at the 
apex, pubescent without, about 4 lin. long. Petals minute, cylindric 
below, capitate above. Ovary glabrous, 
Mozamb, Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and 
ait 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! Tanganyika Plateau, at Fort Hill, 3500-4000 ft., 
ee. 
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