344 Lxxiii. composite: (OLIVER AND hiern). [Gnapholiutn. 



wide. Capitula campannlate, fis'i ^^- ^^^g? crowded in terminal 

 sessile subglobose often involncrate or shortly pedunculate clusters, 

 J-l in. diam. Scales of involucre sub-triseriate ; inner linear or 

 linear- oblanceol ate, subacute or obtuse, white at tips ; outer ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, woolly outside at base. 

 5 florets 6-8-15. Acbenes minutely papillose. — Scbultz Bip. in. 

 Beitr. Schweinf. Fl. uEthiop. p. 150; G. uliginosmn, A. Rich. Fl. 

 Abyss, i. p. 431, non Linn. ; G. nuMcum, Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. 

 Fl. ^thiop. p. 149 (form with elongated procumbent rooting branches 

 and often obtuse outer involucral scales). 



xrile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper/ Both! Cordofan, Kotschy! 



Differs from G. idiginosum, Linn., by the white tips of the inner scales of the 

 involucre. 



7. G. Btenophyllum, 0. 8f H. Ceespitosely branched. Branches 

 decumbent, woody- wiry, dark-ashen, and rooting below, whitish and 

 leafy above. Leaves narrowly linear-needleshaped, fleshy, subterete, 

 acute or apiculate, sessile, subfalcate, |-f in. long; marginal lines 

 approximated, white, closely cottony, decurrent. Capitula ^ in. long, 

 campanulate-oblong, clustered a few together at the ends of the leafy 

 branches. Involucres cottony below, glabrous, dilated and white 

 above ; inner scales linear-oblong, obtuse, white and spreading towards 

 the tip. Female florets in many rows, outer ; hermaphrodite florets 

 central, about 12. Anthers tailed. Pappus uniseriate, whitish, silky, 

 about J in. long, nearly equalling the florets, deciduous in one piece; 

 setsB somewhat branched above. Achenes glabrous. — Anaxeton se^pten- 

 triotvalis, Vatke in Oeat. Bot. Zeitschr. xxvii. 194 (1877). 



BKozamb. Bistr. Inhambane, in dry sandy fields, Peters ! 



8. G. pulvinatioxn, Del; J)G. Prodr. vi. p. 231. Diffuse or 

 prostrate annual, lanate-tomentose all over; branches numerous, 

 spreading, slender, terete, 8-5 in. long. Leaves spathulate, more or 

 less obtuse, mucronate, attenuate at the base into the short petiole, 

 ^-^ in. long. Capitula campanulate, ^ in. long, crowded in subglobose 

 leafy or involucrate terminal clusters, about -J in. diam. Scales of 

 involucre sub-triseriate, lanate, linear-lanceolate, subacute, membran- 

 ous ; inner a little longer than the florets, scarious, whitish or purplish 

 at the apex. ^ florets 4-6. $ numerous. Achenes glabrous or 

 nearly so. 



WUe Xiand. Cordofan, Kotschy! White Nile, Schwdnfurth ! 

 Occurs also in Egypt, and according to Boissier, Fl. Orient, iii. p. 225, also in 

 Scind and India. 



9. G. nUlaomn, Baddi; DC. Prodr. vi. p. 231. Diffuse annual, 

 3-10 in. high, branched at the base, thinly cottony in most parts; 

 branches rather numerous, spreading, decumbent or ascending. 

 Leaves spathulate or obovate, rounded or obtuse, mucronulate atten- 

 uate at the base into the short petiole, lanate especially on the 

 margins and beneath, sometimes glabrate above, |-]^ in. long. Ca- 

 pitula campanulate, J in. long, sessile in small dense terminal and 

 gubterminal shortly spiciform sessile dusters. Scales of involucre 



