354 Lxxiii. coMPOSiTiE (OLIVER AND hiern). [Heliohrysvm. 



revolute, ^1 in. long by ^V~i i^- wide. Capitula campanulate- oblong, 

 ^ in. long by ^^ ^^- wide, 10-20-flowered, subsessile, crowded in dense 

 corymbose-globose cymes. |-1^ in. diameter. Scales of the involucre 

 panciseriate, unequal, imbricate, of a shining deep straw colour ; inner 

 oblong or linear- oblong, obtuse or eroded at tip, coriaceous below ; 

 outer broadly ovate or elliptical, thinly woolly outside. Receptacle 

 with conspicuous subulate orange-coloured fimbrillge exceeding the 

 ovaries. Carpels glabrous. 5 A- 4-7. — H. chrysocovia, Schultz Bip. 

 in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, ii. nn. 836, 979. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 424 

 Gnaphalium fruticosnm, Forsk. ! Fl. JEg.-Arab. p. 218. H. chryso- 

 cephalum, Schultz Bip. 1. c. iii. 1765. Ghiaphalium chri/socephalum et 

 G. chrysocoma, Sch. Bip. in Mohl et Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. iii. p. 174 

 (1845). H. fruticosum, Vatke in Linnasa xxxix. p. 491. cum. varr. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po and Cameroon Mountains, 7-11,000 ft. alt., 

 Mann ! 



xnie Iband. Abyssinia, -SeAm^er.' Both! 

 Mozamb. Blstr. Kilima-njaro, Rev. C, New ! 

 Occurs also in South Africa, Arabia, etc, 



23. B. g^lobosum, Schultz Bip. in Hh. Schimp. Abyss, ii. n. 988. 

 Perennial herb, ^-2^ ft. high ; stems simple from the thick root-slock, 

 erect, more or less Ian ate, naked above. Leaves 3-nerved, albido-tomen- 

 tellous beneath, squamous- scaberulous above, entire, narrowly elliptical, 

 acutely acuminate ; cauline distant, narrowed towards the auriculate 

 amplexicaul base, sessile or lowest quasi-petiolate, ranging up to 3-6 in. 

 long by ^1-J in. wide ; radical approximated, attenuate at base into 

 petiole |-4 in. long. Capitula oblong, 12-1 8- flowered, -l-^ in, long, 

 on very short pedicels crowded in dense subglobose tenninal clusters 

 1-2 in. diameter ; occasionally the cluster is broken up into smaller 

 subordinate globular clusters. Scales of the involucre panciseriate, • 

 brownish yeUow ; inner oblong obtuse, coriacous below, glabrous ; 

 outer shorter broadly elliptical, obtuse, lanate below. Receptacle with 

 orange fimbrillae. 5 A- about 4, the rest ? . Achenes oblong terete 

 glabrous. Pappus cohering slightly in basal ring. — A. Rich. Fl. 

 Abyss, i. p. 425 ; Gnaphalium globosum, Sch, Bip. in Mohl et Schlecht. 

 Bot. Zeit. iii. p. 174 (1845). 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po and Cameroon Mountains, 5-10,000 ft. alt,, 

 Mann I 



Wile land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



Var. fi. rkodochlamys, Vatke in Linnaa xxxix. p. 492 (1875). Herbaceous, 

 2^-3 ft. high, simple erect, shortly pale-tomentose above, puberulous and shining 

 below. Stem striate. Leaves elliptical oblanceolate elongate-lanceolate or upper- 

 most linear, acute, upper very much so, lower with fine obtuse point, 1-5-nerved, 

 membranous, shining, 2-4| in. long by ^-U in. wide; cauline sessile, amplexicaul ; 

 radical attenuate into petiole, Capitula campanulate-oblong, ^ in, long, 13-17- 

 flowered, bright purple, sessile or subsessile in dense branched subglobose terminal 

 panicles 2^ in, diameter, Scales of the involucre pluriseriate, glabrous, shining, 

 purple above ; inner oblong, obtuse, minutely denticulate at apex ; outer oval, acutish, 

 shorter. Eeceptacle with long jagged coloured fimbrillae equalling or exceeding the 

 ovaries. $ fl. 1-3. 9 fl. 12-14, Achenes glabrous, subterete, 



Vile &and. Abyssinia, Schimper! a. 1863, n. 1122. 



