Lasiosiphon. | CXVIII. THYMELZACEH (PEARSON), 231. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000-7500 ft., Mann, 
1201! 2171! Buea, 6800 ft., Preuss, 631 ! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: near Gondar, on the mountains, Riippel! Gallas 
Plateau, Steudel, 1284! Amora-Gettel, Schimper, 1342! and without precise 
locality, Plowden / British East Africa: Mount Kenia, above 8000 ft., Battiscombe, 11! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; on the north side, 
10,400 ft., Volkens, 2012! Usangu, Goetze, 990! and without precise locality, 
Busse, 282! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., 
Whyte, 121! McClounie, 147 | between M’pata and the Tanganyika Plateau, 2000- 
3000 ft., Whyte! 
8. L. Kraussii, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 596. Stems erect, 
simple or little-branched, arising from a stout rootstock, pubescent 
with spreading hairs, glabrescent or glabrous, 4-2 ft. high. Leaves 
elliptic, lanceolate or narrowly ovate, glabrous or hairy, rounded, 
obtuse or acute, }~1? in. long, 4-$ in. broad. Heads solitary, terminal, 
compact, many-flowered ; peduncle velvety-pilose, 1-4 in. long ; involu- 
cral bracts 6-10, lanceolate or ovate, obtuse, densely pubescent, 4—# in. 
long. Flowers 5-merous, shortly pedicelled ; pedicel bearing a tuft of 
short erect hairs. Calyx-tube stout or slender, bearing a dense brush 
of erect white or yellowish-white hairs below the articulation, densely 
pubescent above, 4-3? in. long; lobes oblong or obovate, truncate, 
rounded or emargiuate at the apex, 1-2 lin. long. Petals very thinly 
membranous, oblong, emarginate or more or less deeply bisected, 4-4 
as long as the calyx-lobes. Ovary shortly stalked, densely villous with 
long erect white hairs about twice its length; style lateral, 2-3 lin. 
long; stigma capitate; hypogynous disc minute, annular. Mature 
fruit not seen.—Engl. in Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 310; Wood & 
Evans, Natal Plants, iii. t. 256. JZ. Kraussii, vars., Meisn. L.c. 
L. affinis, Kotschy & Peyr. Pl. Tinn. 39, t. 19 B. L. djuricus, 
Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 269. Gnidia kraussiana (and vars.), 
Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. (1843), 552, 553; Gilg in Engl. 
Pil. Ost-Afr. C. 283. Gnidia djurica, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 268. 
G. dschurica, Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 6A, 228. 
G. usinjensis, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 269; Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr, l.c. 
Upper Guinea. Futa Jallon: Labe, Chevalier, 12327! Northern Nigeria: 
Kontagora, Dalziel, 53! 
Nile Land. Jur: between Kurshook Ali’s Seriba and the Wau River, 
Schweinfurth, iii. 116! 117! between Bongo and Jur, Tinne, 75! Dar Fertit ; 
Golo Desert, Schweinfurth, iii. 115. Bahr-el-Ghazal, Broun! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: near the River Cunene, Johnston ! Huilla, Antunes, 
119! by the River Kubango, 3600 ft., Baum, 376! Malange Dist., Gossweiler, 
1014! 1017! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Unyika, Goetze, 1369! Usinja; 
Nyakamaya, Stuhlmann, 862! Western bank of the Nyanza to Kagera, Trotha, 
141! Ufipa (Afipa), western boundary of the Rikwa (Rukwa) Mountains, 7000 ft., 
Hostmann ! Karagwe; on dry stony hills, 4000-5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8162! 
Portuguese East Africa: Johnson, 487! 508!  Kritish Central Africa: Urungu; 
Fwambo, Carson, 96! Nutt! Nyasaland; Angoniland, Sharpe, 59! Mount Malosa, 
4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Cameron! top of Mount Zomba, Buchanan, 125! and 
