592 LXXI. COMPOSITE. [Gongrothamnus 
arranged almost in a peltate manner ; petioles es to = in. long, 
felted; capitula about 22-flowered, obconical, to + in. long, 
woolly below, pallid, numerous, on short unequal bracteolate 
pedicels arranged in hemispherical terminal panicles 2 to 3 in. in 
diameter or in ampler leafy compound panicles ; scales of the 
involucre pluriseriate, pointed, uninerved, the outermost very 
small woolly outside and subdeltoid, the inner successively larger 
more oblong and less woolly, the innermost about + in. long, 
lanceolate-oblong, acute and ciliolate about the apex; corollas 
shortly 5-cleft, the lobes rather obtuse, about one-third as long as 
the tube, furnished at the apex with a large thick gland; anther- 
bases appendaged ; basal appendages linear, truncate ; style at the 
base seated on a depressed quasi-annular bulb; the branches 
somewhat flattened on the inner face; young achenes densely 
hairy with stiff hairs directed upwards and arranged in about 10 
longitudinal rows ; pappus setaceous, sordid-tawny, subuniseriate, 
a few outer sete short, the inner about + in. long, rather hispid 
and rigid, slightly dilated and ciliolate-fimbriate at the apex ; 
receptacle pitted, the pits with irregularly raised margins. 
Hvriia.—In sunny rocky bushy places between Mumpulla and Nene; 
not yet in open fl. Oct.; sparingly in fl. Dec. 1859. At 5000 ft. 
altitude. No. 3271. 
This is nearly related to G. divaricatus Steetz, but is not glabrate. 
2. G,. angolensis Hiern, sp. n. 
An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, under favourable circumstances 
becoming woody, sparingly branched; branches spreading, rambling, 
terete, purplish, glabrate, sulcate-striate, rather slender, nearly 
straight ; branchlets puberulous or obsoletely woolly, erect-patent ; 
leaves elliptical, alternate, more or less narrowed at both ends 
especially towards the base, subapiculate at the apex, membranous, 
glabrate or puberulous, yellowish-green (in the dry state), entire 
crenulate or obscurely toothed, 1 to 2 in. long by } to = in. broad, 
minutely punctate, triplinerved and penniveined ; petioles 3 to 
+ in. long or less; capitula numerous, } in. long, campanulate- 
oblong, 4-flowered, on short pubescent bracteolate pedicels arranged 
in rather dense compound more or less leafy corymbose or hemi- 
spherical terminal cymes of 2 to 8 in. in diameter; bracteoles 
ovate or lanceolate pubescent, small ; involucral scales pluriseriate, 
firmly scarious, the outer short broadly ovate apiculate and outside 
pubescent, the inner gradually longer more lanceolate acute and 
nearly glabrous ranging up to } in. long; flowers + in. long ; 
corollas + in. long, yellow, narrowly tubular, not much dilated 
upwards, shortly 5 5-lobed ; the lobes lanceolate, curving outwards ; 
anthers sagittate at the ‘pase, each with a lanceolate appendage 
at the apex; style exserted, arising from a bulbous sub-annular 
disk (or nectary) at the base, puberulous on the upper part ; the 
branches also puberulous, spreading-recurved, subobtuse ; achenes 
4, irregularly obconical-obovoid, unequally 10-ribbed, 51, in. long, 
shortly pubescent, with a small callus at the base ; pappus sub- 
