Helichrysnm.'] lxxiii. compos itje (oliver and hiern). 349 



8. K. horridum, SchuUz Bip. in Hh. Schimp. Abyss, sect. ii. n. 

 975. Shrubby, spinous ; branches terete, floccose, lower glabrate ; 

 bark palHd ; spines ^-| in. long, straight, axillary and terminal. Leaves 

 approximated on young shoots, often subfasciculate, linear, acute, ses- 

 sile, apiculate, tomentose especially beneath, ^-^ in. long; margins 

 entire, revolute. Capitula campanulate, ^-^ in. long, solitary, termi- 

 nating the numerous young branches, leafy at base. Scales of the 

 involucre multiseriate, imbricate, straw-coloured ; inner linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, glabrous ; outer successively shorter and rounder, thinly woolly 

 outside at base. Receptacle naked, flat. Florets all apparently her- 

 maphrodite. Achenes obscurely angular or subterete, with few minute 

 scattered hairs. — A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 422. Gnaphalium horridum, 

 Schultz Bip. in Mohl^t Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. iii. p. 173 (1845). 



irile Xiand. Abyssinia, Schimper f 



9. R. Petersll, 0. ^ H. Suffruticose at least below, 2 ft. high 

 or more. Stems erect, pubescent with short weak spreading hairs ; 

 branches ascending, leafy throughout. Leavea lanceolate, acute at the 

 apex by the recurving of the two sides, rounded at the sessile base, 

 chartaceous, rather softly scabrid above, 5-nerved, hoary and velvety- 

 pubescent beneath, ranging up to 1;^ in. ; margins revolute. Capitula 

 hemispherical, -J in. long, sessile at the extremity of the subcorymbose 

 branches, based by the upper leaves. Scales of the involucre multi- 

 seriate, bright yellow, with ovate subobtuse mucronulate tips, glabrous. 

 Florets all hermaphrodite. Receptacle areolate-foveolate, nearly flat, 

 glabrous. Achenes glabrous, ovoid-oblong, about 5-ribbed. Pappus 

 barbellate, yellowish. — H. Kirhii^ Yatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr.-xxvii. 

 195 (1877), non 0. & H. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Zambesi-land, Kirk ! Tette, Peters ! 



10. H. Klrkll, 0. 8f H. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. 80c. Lond. xxix. 

 p. 95, t. 61. Suffruticose at the base, iJ-2 ft. high or more,erect ; 

 branches virgate, terete, faintly striate, pubescent or tomentose, leafy 

 above. Leaves (cauline) linear or linear-lanceolate, a<;ute, apicu- 

 late, sessile, clasping, subauriculate, white- tomentose beneath, sub- 

 glabrescent above ; margins revolute, entire, ^-1^ in. long, ^^^ in. 

 wide. Capitula widely campanulate, very many-flowered, |---| in, long 

 and wide, singly terminating the upper often short leafy branches, 

 forming loose corymbs. Scales of involucre multiseriate, imbricate, 

 glabrous, shining, of a bright straw colour ; inner linear, acute ; inter- 

 mediate oblong, narrowed at the apex, subacute ; outer ovate, obtuse 

 or subacute. Receptacle foveolate, nearly flat, glabrous. Florets all 

 hermaphrodite. Achenes oblong, glabrous, of a milk-white colour, 

 shining, obscurely 5-6-sided. Pappus barbellate, yellowish. 



Moaamb. Blstr. Manganja B.i]1b, Dr. Meller / Soche Hill, Dr. Kirk! Shire, 

 Dr. Stewart/ ? Maravi Country, west of Lake Nyassa, 12° S. Lat., Dr. Kirk! 

 7° 40' S. Lat., M'buiga, south of Coast range, Speke and Grant ! 



11. K. Newil, 0. ^ H. Fruticose, leafy ; branches (upper) torete, 

 as w^U as the leaves covered with appressed silvery tomentura. Leaves 

 linear- oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, revolute at the margins, sessile, 



