226 CXVIII. THYMELMACEH (PEARSON). | Gnidia. 
24. G. goeetzeana, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 363. Flowering 
stems slender, erect, a little branched above, glabrous, 17—20 in. high. 
Leaves sessile, numerous, linear-lanceolate, flat, acute, cuneate at the 
base, with 2—4 lateral nerves on each side, glabrous, $-4 in. long. Heads 
20-25-flowered ; peduncle leafless for 5 lin. below the head, or bearing 
a single leaf; involucral bracts 4—5, ovate or broadly ovate, acuminate, 
acute, erect or spreading, equalling or slightly exceeding the flowers, 
membranous, reddish-green (when dry). Flowers 4-merous. Calyx- 
tube terete, slender, densely or very densely but shortly silky-pilose, 
about } in. long ; lobes very small, ovate, acute, sparsely pilose beneath, 
4-4 lin. long. Petals very small, filiform, globose at the apex, about 
$ as long as the calyx-lobes. Fruit silky. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kondeland, on mountain slopes and in 
open bush on the Rumbira River, 3200 ft., Goetze, 895. 
25. G. stenophylla, Gilg in Hngl. Jahrb. xix. 259. A “low under- 
shrub” (Holst). Flowering stems numerous, branched, glabrous, 10 in. 
to 14 ft. high, arising from a short ascending rhizome, Leaves densely 
crowded, pinoid, ending in a stout point, glabrous, }—$ in. long, } lin. 
broad. Heads 10-15-flowered; involucral bracts 6-9, lanceolate, pale 
green, long-acuminate or caudate-acuminate, with a prominent midrib, 
glabrous, about 3 as long as the flowers, 1-1} lin. broad. Flowers 
4-merous, pedicelled, ‘pale yellow” (Holst); pedicel 14-2 lin. long, 
bearing a brush of stifferect hairs. Calyx-tube densely pubescent above 
the articulation and bearing stiff erect hairs below, }—} in. long; lobes 
ovate-oblong, rounded or somewhat emarginate at the apex, pubescent 
on the outside, 1-14 lin. long, 4—? lin. broad. Petals linear, somewhat 
fleshy towards the apex, $-} lin. long. Ovary shortly stalked, glabrous. 
—Gilg in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 283. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, on dry 
steppes, 5000 ft., Holst, 8963! and without precise locality, Buchwald, 274! 
Imperfectly known species. 
26. G. katangensis, Gilg ¢ Dew. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 276. 
Flowering stems erect, apparently arising from a stout rhizome, 
glabrous. Leaves remote, linear-lanceolate, sessile, acute, membranous, 
quite glabrous, 3-1 in. long, 14-3 lin. broad. Heads 40-—60-flowered, 
terminal, solitary; involucral bracts 7~9, lanceolate, acute, herba- 
ceous, rather more than } as long as the flowers. Flowers 4-merous, 
apparently red or brick-coloured. Calyx-tube slender, cylindric, densely 
clothed with long white hairs, 3-§ in. long ; lobes ovate or broadly ovate, 
acute, clothed with long white hairs on the outside, glabrous within, 
2-3 lin. long. Petals 0, or very rarely represented by minute points.— 
Gilg & Dew. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxiii. 105. 
South Central. Belgian Congd: Katanga; abundant on the savannahs near 
Katete, Cornet. 
From the description, this species would appear to be allied to G. oliveriana, 
Engl. & Gilg. 
