GnapTialiuin.'] Lxxni. composit.5; (oliver and hiern). 343 



3-4^ in. wide. Scales of the involucre pauciseriate ; inner linear or 

 linear-oblong, slightly dilated above, quite obtuse, glabrous, straw- 

 coloured ; outer oval, rounded, thinly woolly at base. Receptacle 

 narrow, prominent, foveolate, dentate. $ jl. 3-5. Achenes obovoid, 

 glabrous, somewhat compressed. 

 Wile Xiand. Abyssinia, Petit! 



4. G. luteo-album, Linn.; BC.Prodr. vi. p. 230. Herbaceous, 

 sometimes woody at base, erect ascending or decumbent, simple or 

 branched, -^-l^ ft. high. Stem and branches cottony, striate, sub- 

 terete. Leaves spathulate, obtuse, or linear and sometimes acute, 

 sessile, semi-amplexicaul, cottony on both sides, especially beneath, 

 sometimes glabrate above, entire or vaguely crenulate, 1-3 in. long by 

 y\j-Jin. wide; upper smaller. Capitula campannlate, many-flowered, 

 I in. long, sessile or subsessile, many together without intervening leaves, 

 in crowded clusters at the ends of the stem and branches and from the 

 upper axils, in corymbose or somewhat elongate cymes. Scales of 

 involucre pauciseriate, straw-coloured; innermost linear obtuse or 

 subacute ; intermediate ovate-lanceolate, obtuse ; outer ovate, obtuse, 

 woolly at base. Receptacle naked, flat, closely tubercled, -^^^ in. diam., 



5 florets 4-9. Achenes oblong, subterete or slightly compressed, 

 minutely papillose, otherwise glabrous. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Expedition, Barter ! Senegambia, Perrottet ! 

 zrile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Q. Dillon and Petit/ Nubia, Kotschy ! 

 Bromjield! 



A cosmopolitan weed. 



5. G. Steudelil, Sclmltz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, i. n. 231. 

 Herbaceous, erect, simple or branching at base, usually branched 

 above, ^2 ft. high. Branches erect or ascending, terete, striate, 

 cottony above, leafy. Leaves linear, acute, somewhat auricled and 

 amplexicaul at the base, closely lanate beneath, nearly glabrate above, 

 entire, 1-3 in. long, yV~6 ^^- l^^'o^d. Capitula campanulate, J in. 

 long, subsessile, several together, in dense clusters arranged in broad 

 terminal'corymbose cymes. Innermost involucral scales linear or iinear- 

 oblanceolate, with acute or subacute whitish membranous appendices ; 

 intermediate linear- oblong, obtuse ; outer obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 woolly. Receptacle naked, flat ; $ florets about 5 ; ? florets very 

 numerous, filiform, minutely toothed. Achenes very small, glabrous, 

 obtusely angular. — Helichrysum Steudeliiy Schultz Bip. I. c. ; A. Rich. 

 Fl. Abyss, i. p. 421. 



Abyssinian name, Suhhinaday, 



IBTile Xfand. Abyrisinia, Schimper! Parkyns ! 



Mozamb. Bistr. ]\Ianganja hills, Dr. Meller '. 



6. G-. Unionis, Schultz Bip. in Eh. Schimp. Abyss, sect. i. n. 17!^, 

 ii. 1179. Annual herb, occasionally creeping and rooting, prostrate 

 or ascending, branched from the crown of the root, lanate, 1 in.-l ft. 

 high. Leaves linear, subacute or obtuse, mucronulate, sessile, suham- 

 plexicaul, entire, lanate on both surfaces, ^1 in. long by ^^-^ in. 



