Arthrosolen. | CXVIII. THYMELHACEEZ (PEARSON). 237 
glabrous.—Gnidia pleurocephala, Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb, Exped. 
310. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Longa River, 4000 ft., growing on the bank of a pool, 
very rare, Baum, 828. 
7. A. fulgens, H. H. W. Pearson. Stems numerous, erect or 
ascending, branched, glabrous, 1-14 ft. high, arising from a woody 
rhizome. Leaves crowded, linear, acute at the apex, glabrous, rigid, 
4-% in. long, about 4-1 lin. broad. Heads terminal, about 20-flowered ; 
involucral bracts 6, oval, obtuse, glabrous or minutely glandular, 
somewhat coloured towards the apex, 4 in. long, about 2 lin. broad. 
Flowers brilliant scarlet, 4-merous. Calyx-tube silky-pubescent or 
-villous, about 4 in. long; lobes obovate, rounded at the apex, about 
$ in. long.—@nidia fulgens, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 923. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; at Mutollo and in marshy 
meadows near Sobato Nbilla, Welwitsch, 6483! 
8. A. foliosa, 7. H. W. Pearson. Flowering stems stout, woody, 
erect, perhaps 2-3 ft. high, bearing numerous short slender leafy 
branches. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 
narrowed towards the base, glabrous, with prominent venation, 1-1} 
in. long. Heads about 12-flowered, axillary, peduncled; peduncle 
slender, usually leafless, except near its insertion, #-2 in. long; in- 
volucral bracts 4, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex, more 
or less narrowed at the base, membranous, not coloured, with con- 
spicuous venation, glabrous, scarcely exceeding the flowers. Calyx-tube 
silky-villous without, especially below the articulation, glabrous within, 
4-—? in. long; lobes oblong, obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent without. 
Ovary glabrous. 
Upper Guinea. Soudan: between Bammako and Guignula, Chevalier, 256! 
Schlechter, 12287, collected in Portuguese East Africa at “25 miles station ” on 
April 11, 1898; a specimen collected by Dr. T. G. Nicholso in N. Nyasaland and 
Chevalier, 6656, from the Upper Chari, are represented in the Kew berbarium by 
specimens too incomplete for description. 
5. ENGLERODAPHNE, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix, 274. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous. Calyx-tube coloured, cylindric, 
glabrous, somewhat constricted below the middle, continuous ; lobes. 
spreading during flowering. Petals bisected to the base; lobes fleshy, 
linear-spathulate, toothed at the apex, about ? as long as the calyx- 
lobes. Stamens 8, in 2 whorls, those of the upper whorl half- 
exserted, the lower inserted in the upper part of the calyx-tube; 
filaments almost obsolete; anthers with obscure connective. Ovary 
sessile, very hispid, 1-celled ; style short, filiform, arising laterally near 
the summit; disc 0.—Branched shrubs with opposite flat leaves, 
Flowers in terminal few-flowered ebracteate fascicles. 
Species 1, in East Tropical Africa and South Africa. 
