350 Lxxiii. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND hieen). [Belichrysum. 



scarcely narrowed at the base, coriaceous, entire, ^\ in. long by yV"!" 

 in. wide. Capitula widely campanulate, about 1 in. long and wide, 

 many-flowered, terminal, solitary, sessile. Scales of involucre multi- 

 seriate, loosely imbricate, glabrous ; inner linear, narrowed to obtuse 

 apex, J in. long ; outer lanceolate, gradually narrowed to subobtuse or 

 subacute apex, successively shorter. Receptacle bracteate, with 

 strongly acute- toothed pit-margins. Pappus barbellate above. 

 Mozaznb. Distr. Kilima-njaro, highest zone of vegetation, Rev. C. New! 



12. K. nitens, 0. ^ R. Erect perennial, 6-9 in. high ; stem 

 simple, leafy below, terete, cottony. Leaves oval-lanceolate, acute, 

 mucronate, sessile, clasping, tomentellous on both sides, especially 

 beneath, faintly 3-5-nerved, entire, 2-4 in, long by ^-f in. wide, upper 

 smaller. Capitula hemispherical, very numerously flowered, about 1 

 in. diameter, on short pedicels clustered 3-4 together at end of stem in 

 subglobose cymes IJ— 1| in. diameter. Scales of the involucre multi- 

 seriate, imbricate, shining, of orange colour ; inner linear, subobtuse, 

 glabrous, exceeding the fl. ; outer successively shorter, subacute ; 

 outermost ovate, woolly at base outside. Receptacle flat, naked, ^ in. 

 diameter. Fl. all ^ . Achenes glabrous. 



Native names, Donee, Ousiwa. 



XMtozamb. Bistr. Mount Chiradzura, 1,000 ft. to summit, Br. Metier f 



13. K. eleg'antlssixuum, DO, Prodr. vi. p. 179, var. majus. Erect 

 strong perennial herb, 3 ft. high, simple or nearly so ; stem terete, ob- 

 scurely striate, lanate-pubescent above, glabrate below, leafy. Leaves 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, apiculate, sessile, wide clasping and 

 somewhat decurrent at the base, tomentellous beneath, squamoso- 

 asperulous above, marked with obscure longitudinal veins, entire, 1^3 J 

 in. long by ^Ij in. wide. Capitula hemispherical, very many-flowered, . 

 1^ in. diameter, solitary, on distinct peduncles, 1-3^ in. long, 4-8 in a 

 terminal corymb, 3-6 in. diameter. Scales of the involucre pluri- , 

 seriate, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, shining, hyaline above, more 

 coriaceous and often purplish at base ; inner linear-lanceolate, obtuse 

 or subacute, white ; outer shorter, often purplish, acute, spreading. 

 Receptacle naked. Fl. all hermaphrodite. Achenes thinly pubescent, 

 small. Pappus sordid, barbellate. — H. formosissimum, Schultz Bip. in 

 Hb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. ii. n. 672 ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 422. 

 Ghiaphalium elegantissimum et G. formosissimum^ Sch. Bip. in Mohl et 

 Schlechfc. Bot. Zeit. iii. 170, 173 (1845). 



xrile ]band. Abyssinia, Sckimper .' (var. latifolium, A. Rich. 1, c.) Ant. Petit. 



Occurs also south of the Tropic. Dr. Klatt, in Ann. Sc, Nat. ser. v. vol. xviii. p. 

 372, cites ' H. formcswrn, Sch. Bip.' from Mount Bachil, Abyssinia, at 12,000 ft. alt., 

 collected by Schimper Oct. 26, 1850 ; this name is unknown to us, it may mean H. 

 formosissimum. 



14. K. adenocarpum, BG. Prodr. vi. p. ISO, var. alpinum. 

 Erect simple perennial herb, 6-10 in. high, argenteo-lanate. Leaves 

 oval-oblong obtuse or uppermost linear- lanceolate, acute, mucronate, 

 sessile, amplexicaul, entire, densely lanate beneath, less so above, 

 ■^1 in. long by ^-f in. wide, Capitula 1-2, broadly campanulate, 



