220 cxviii. THYMELiEACE^ (pearson). [Gnidia^ 



a stout woody rhizome. Leaves linear-oblong or -elliptic, subacute or 

 rounded at the apex, cuneateat the base, glabrous, very shortly petiolate, 

 J-1 in. long, 2 lin. broad. Heads many-flowered, terminal or axillary, 

 long-peduncled ; involucral bracts 5-6, broadly oblong or subrotund, 

 rounded at the apex, thinly membranous, coloured, erect during flower- 

 ing, about f as long as the flowers. Flowers bright pink or orange 

 (Meller), 4-merous, pedicellate; pedicel about J lin. long, bearing 

 a brush of long erect white hairs. Calyx-tube glabrous below the 

 articulation, pubescent above, about J-J in. long; lobes narrowly ovate 

 or oblong, rounded at the apex, pubescent without, 1-H lin. long. 

 Petals ovate, rounded at the apex, fleshy, about | lin. long. Ovary 

 glabrous.— Gilg in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 28:1 



Mozamb. Bistr. German Eiist Africa : Kiiigw (Livingstone) Mountains, 

 7500 ft., Goefze, 1231. Portngnese Ksist Africa: near Lake 'S ynsH., Johnson, 4fi8 ! 

 British Central Africa : N^usaland ; Stevenson Road. 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Eniof,. 

 8291 ! Shire Highlands, Adamson, 29 ! Blantyre, Buchanan, 29 ! Scott ! Mount 

 Zoinb;i, 4000-600(3 ft., Whyte ! Mount Malos-.i, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Manganja 

 Hills, 3000 ft, Meller ! Mount Cliiradzulu, Meller ! Kirk! Ndurandi, Scott- 

 Mliot, 8473! and without i)retise locality, Buchanan, 125! 179! Rhodesia: 

 Lukanda Valley, Allen, 472 ! 



0. G. mollis, C. 11. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1906, 23. Stem 

 stout, branched above the middle, shaggy-pubescent, 2 ft. high. Leaves 

 crowded, linear-elliptic or oblong, acute or obtuse, narrowed at the base, 

 densely shaggy-pubescent when young, later glabrescent above, puberu- 

 lous on the margin and beneath, J-| in. long, ^\ in. broad. Heads 

 |-l in. in diani., many-flowered, compact, terminal on the main or 

 axillary leafy branches; involucral bracts 15-20, broadly lanceolate, 

 densely pilose, about J as long as the flowers. Flowers 4-merous, 

 minutely pedicelled ; pedicel bearing a brush of erect soft white hair. 

 Ciilyx-tube very slender, glabrous below the articulation, densely 

 shaggy-pubescent above, about \ in. long ; lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 shaggy-pubescent without, about J lin. long. Petals minute, cylin- 

 dric, about J lin. long. Ovary glabrous. Fruit ovoid, about 1| lin. 

 long. 



HKozamb. Distr. German East Africa : lower plnt«au and higher plateau, 

 north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson! Portuguese East Africa: between Unungu and 

 Lake Shire, 3000-4000 ft., Johnson, 12! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ;. 

 Masisi, McCluunie, 169! 



10. G. apiculata, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 268, /?ar%. A low 

 shrub lJ-;> ft. high; stems erect, much-branched, glabrous. Leaves- 

 alternate, crowded, linear or narrowly elliptic, narrowed at base and 

 apex, acute, glabrous, indistinctly 3-nerved, J-§ in. long, J-2 J lin. broad. 

 Heads numerous, terminal and axillary, sessile or shortly peduncled,. 

 10-15-flowered ; involucral bracts in two series; outer 3—6 narrowly 

 linear- lanceolate, acute, glabrous, leaf -like in texture or brown and 

 papery ; inner 4-8 broadly ovate, caudate-acuminate, glabrous or 

 puberulous, brown, papery in texture, about J as long as the flowers^ 



