Uelichrysum.'] lxxiii. coMPOsiTiE (oliver and hiern). 347 



few minnte teeth. Achenes small, oblong, covered with small sessile 

 glands, glabrons. Pappns scabrid. Florets all ^ . 



Soutb Central. Batoka Country, Dr. Kirk ! Mashona Country, 7'. Baines ! 

 Occurs also south of the Tropic. 

 . A single specimen in Hb. Kew, very young from Little Fish Bay, West Coast, 

 15° S. lat, collected by I. H. B. Thwaites, may belong to this species. 



2. K. rosulatum, 0. ^JET. Short, stout, perennial, procumbent, 

 with white tomentose stems \\ in. high, sufiruticose at base ; ascend- 

 ing stems simple Or branched at base, terete. Leaves spathulate- 

 oblong, obtuse, emarginate, slightly narrowed at the sessile base, coria- 

 ceous, glabrous, with 3-5 depressed veins above, appressedly velutinous 

 and milk-white beneath, crowded at base of branches, \^% in. long by 

 J— ^ in. wide, upper smaller ; margins entire, finely revolute. Capitula 

 narrowly campanulate, 6-7-flowered, J in: long, sessile, many together 

 in a subglobular head ^— | in. diam., leafy at the base. Scales of the 

 involucre pauciseriate, slightly purplish near tip, scarious with green 

 midrib below ; inner linear slightly dilated above, obtuse, glabrous ; 

 outer similar but smaller, thinly cottony outside. Florets all hermaph- 

 rodite. Achenes very nearly glabrous. 



MTile Xiand. Shores of the Bed 8ea, l^immo ! 



3. K. Nlmmoanuxn, 0. ^ H. SuflFruticose, branched ; branches 

 terete, albido-tomentellous above, glabrescent, 8 in. or more long. 

 Leaves narrowly elliptic or ovate, subacute or subobtuse, apiculate, 

 somewhat narrowed at the base, shortly petiolate, entire, indistinctly 

 pinnate-veined, white-tomentellous especially beneath, f-l^ in. long by 

 ^— ^ in. wide ; petiole ^-J in. long. Capitula oblong, 8-10-flowered, 

 ^ in. long on very short pedicels, in moderately dense branched termi- 

 nal corymbs 1-2^ in. diam. Scales of the involucre pluri- (sub 4-) 

 seriate, imbricate, unequal, glabrous, straw-coloured; inner linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, with scarious margins ; outer successively shorter and 

 more elliptic. Receptacle naked. Florets all hermaphrodite. Achenes 

 oblong minutely glandular. 



Wile ILand. Shores of the Red Sea, Nimmo! 



4. K. auriculatum, Less. ; DC. Trodr. vi, p. 209. Herbaceous (?), 

 Branches terete, albido-lanate, with sparse foliage. Leaves obovate, ob- 

 tuse, mucronulate, narrowed towards the base, sessile or lower shortly 

 petioled, subamplexicaul, tomentose especially beneath, subentire or 

 crenulate, 1-1:^ in. long by ^-f in. wide. Capitula widely campanu- 

 late, \ in. long, many-flowered, on short unequal pedicels, in dense 

 globose or corymbose terminal clusters 1^2-1 in. wide. Scales of the 

 involucre pluri- (3^-) seriate, imbricate, pale, sometimes mucronulate ; 

 innermost spathulate, obtuse, glabrous; intermediate ovate or ovat«- 

 lanceolate, narrowed to base, glabrous, successively shorter ; outer 

 elliptical, obtuse, short, woolly at back ontside. Receptacle naked. 

 Florets all hermaphrodite. Achenes glabrous. Pappus coherent in 

 minute basal ring, barbate, 



Xiower Guinea. Congo, Barton! 



Mozamb* Bistr. Manganja Hills, Dr. Mellerl Shire, Dr. Stewart / 



