^22 cxviii. thymel;*:ace^ (pearson). [Gniclia. 



short axillary branches; involucral bracts 5, scarious, brown (when 

 dry), oblong, obtuse or rounded' at the apex, glabrous, J-f as long as 

 the flowers. Flowers 4-merous, pedicelled ; pedicel J-| lin. long, 

 bearin<' a brush of long erect white hairs. Calyx-tube glabrous below 

 the articulation, pubescent above, ^-^ in. long ; lobes oblong, rounded 

 at the apex, puberulous or pubescent without, about 1 lin. long. 

 Petals subspathulate, fleshy, J-| lin. long. Ovary glabrous. — Meisn. 

 in DC. Prodr. xiv. 589 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 309 ; Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 922. 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia : on the descent from Sana to Terrf era, Schimper, 770 ! 

 Shireli, Quartin-Dillun ! 6800 tt. above Lake Amogai, Schimper, 950 ! and without 

 precise locality, Ploicden ! 



Itovrer Guinea. Angola : Huilla, Welwitsch, 6481 ! 



14. G. XJsafuae, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xxx. 363. A much- 

 branclied shrub with erect glabrous branches. Leaves very nume- 

 rous, scattered, linear-lanceolate, glabrous, very shortly but distinctly 

 petioled, ^-1 in. long, 1 lin. broad. Heads numerous, in a more 

 or less corymbose inflorescence, many-flowered ; involucral bracts 

 about 6, in 2 series, broadly elliptic, scarious, glabrous, about J as 

 long as the flowers. Flowers 4-merous, pedicelled ; pedicel villous 

 with erect silky hairs, 1-2 lin. long. Calyx-tube slender, glabrous 

 below the articulation, pubescent above, with 8 projecting white 

 longitudinal ridges within, \-\ in. long ; lobes short, oblong. Petals 

 oblon::, thickened, truncate and minutely toothed at the apex, \-\ as 

 long as the calyx-lobes. . Ovary glabrous ; style lateral. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa ; Usafua, Ooetze, 1042 ! 



15. G. fastigiata, Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 41. 

 A low shrub about 1 ft. high. Branches numerous, erect, arising from 

 a woody rootstock, pubescent with long erect hairs when young, later 

 glabrescent. Leaves crowded, suberect, stifF, linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 1-nerved, hirsute when young, later glabrous or bearing a tew long 

 adpressed hairs, about J in. long, ^-1 lin. broad. Heads 1-3-flowered, 

 sessile or very shortly stalked in the axils of the leaves of the upper- 

 most 1-3 in. of the stem ; involucral bracts 2-4, similar to or smaller 

 than the leaves, pubescent. Flowers 4-merous, minutely pedicelled; 

 pedicel bearing a dense brush of short erect white hairs. Calyx- tube 

 dilated below, contracted above the ovary, funnel-shaped above, densely 

 villous with erect hairs, 2-3 lin. long; lobes oblong or ovate, rounded 

 at the apex, about J lin. long. Petals split to the base ; segments very 

 thinly membranous, unequal in size, glabrous, oblong, entire or more 

 or less emarginate, about \-\ lin. long. Ovary pubescent ; style arising 

 laterally. Mature fruit ovoid, 1-1 J lin. long; pericarp thin, mem- 

 branous, loosely enclosing the seed ; testa hard, brittle. — G. Holstiiy 

 Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. 257 partly; var. kilimandscharica, Gilg 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 283. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; above the River Useri, 



