Gnidia.] cxviii. THYMELiEACE^ (pearson). 223 



9000 ft., Volkenx, 1904! Usambani ; Mlalo, Hotst, 252. British Central Alrica: 

 Nyasiiluiul, Mount Mlaiij:, Whyte ! 



Var. hirsuta, H. H. W. Pearson. Leaves and stems more or less densely 

 hirsute. — O. Holstii, Gilg in Engl, and Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 257 partly; Etigl. 

 in Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 283. Struthiola Molstii, Engl, in Engl. Jalub. xvii. 165. 



Wile Xiand. Uganda: Nandi, 7000-8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6966! Upper Maa 

 Plateau, Wkyte ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usangn, Guetze, 1258! British 

 Central Africa: Nyasaland; between Mpata and the Tanganyika Plateau, 2U00- 

 3000 ft., Whyte! Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte ! Tucliila Plateau, 

 Purves, 112 I 



Also in South Africa, 



16. G. caducay H. H. IF. Pearson. Flowering stems erect, 

 simple or little-branched, 15-18 in. high, glabrous. Leaves somewhat 

 crowded, linear, sessile, acute, stiffly papery, glabrous, J-J in. long. 

 Heads 20-25-flowered ; involucral bracts 5, scarious, ovate, acute, 

 glabrous, caducous. Flowers 4-merous, very shortly pedicelled. Calyx- 

 tube terete, very densely clothed with short depressed silky hairs, 

 especially below the articulation, \-\ in. long ; lobes ovate-subrotund, 

 densely silky-pilose on the under vside. Petals linear, membranous, 

 glabrous, J-^ lin. long. Ovary glabrous. — G. denudata, Gilg in Ann. 

 Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 97, not of Lindl. 



Wile Xiand. Somaliland; between Dadaeei Utoca and BiMnma, Euspoli <^ 

 Riva, 1 305 ! 



17. G. rubrocincta, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 259. Flowering 

 stems numerous, erect, slender, unbianched, 4-7 in. high, arising from 

 a thick woody rhizome. Leaves distant, linear, flat, more or less 

 rounded at the apex, with red margins, glabrous, J-| in. long, 

 1-lJ lin. broad. Heads 15-flowered ; involucral bracts 6-7, ovate, 

 acuminate, thin, recurved during flowering, green with red margins, 

 about equal in length to the flowers, 2 lin. broad at the base. Flowers 

 4-meroiis, red or fiery-red pedicelled ; pedicel sl'ort, villous with erect 

 hairs. Calyx-tube filiform, slender, densely pubescent, J-Jin.long; 

 lobes ovate-oblong, sparsely clothed on the back with brown pubescence, 

 |-1J lin. long, about J lin. broad at the base. Petals obovate, some- 

 what concave towards the apex, rather thick, about § as long as the 

 calyx-lobes. Ovary glabrous. 



Kower Guinea. Angola : Quango (Knango) River, Pogge, 209 ! 



18. G. fruticulosa, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 207. A small 

 woody plant, 2-3 in. high, with an ascending woody rhizome ; flowering 

 stems numerous, more or less crowded, simple or more rarely branched, 

 prostrate or ascending. Leaves alternate, sessile, crowded on the lower 

 part of the stem, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, acute or apiculate, 

 glabrous, coriaceous, J-| in. long. Heads terminal, 12-18-flowered ; 

 involucral bracts 5-6, oblong or obovate-oblong, sessile, acuminate, 

 acute or apiculate, glabrous, rather shorter than the flowers. Flowers 



