226 cxviii. THYMEL.EACE.B (pearson). [Chiidia. 



24. G. goetzeana, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xxx. 363. Flowering 

 stems slender, erect, a little branched above, glabrous, 17-20 in. high. 

 Leaves sessile, numerous, linear-lanceolate, flat, acute, cuneate at the 

 base, with 2-4 lateral nerves on each side, glabrous, J-J in. long. Heads 

 20-25-flowered ; peduncle leafless for 5 lin. below the head, or bearing 

 a single leaf ; involucral bracts 4-5, ovate or broadly ovate, acuminate, 

 acute, erect or spreading, equalling or slightly exceeding the flowers, 

 membranous, reddish-green (when dry). Flowers 4-merous. Calyx- 

 tube terete, slender, densely or very densely but shortly silky-pilose, 

 about J in. long ; lobes very small, ovate, acute, sparsely pilose beneath, 

 J-J lin, long. Petals very small, filiform, globose at the apex, about 

 I as long as the calyx-lobes. Fruit silky. 



Af ozaint>> X>istr. German East Africa : Kondeland, on mountain slopes and in 

 open bush on the Kumbira River, 3200 ft., Ooetze, 895. 



25. G. itenophylla, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 259. A " low under- 

 shrub " {Hoist): Flowering stems numerous, branched, glabrous, 10 in. 

 to \\ ft. high, arising from a short ascending rhizome. Leaves densely 

 crowded, pinoid, ending in a stout point, glabrous, J-| in. long, J lin. 

 broad. Heads 10-15-flowered ; involucral bracts 6-9, lanceolate, pale 

 green, long-acuminate or caudate-acuminate, with a prominent midrib, 

 glabrous, about |^ as long as the flowers, 1-lJ lin. broad. Flowers 

 4-merous, pedicelled, "pale yellow" (Hoist)', pedicel 1^-2 lin. long, 

 bearing a brush of stifi* erect hairs. Calyx-tube densely pubescent above 

 the articulation and bearing stift' erect hairs below, ^-^ in. long; lobes 

 ovate-oblong, rounded or somewhat emarginate at the apex, pubescent 

 on the outside, 1-1 J Hn. long, J- J lin. broad. Petals linear, somewhat 

 fleshy towards the apex, J-J lin. long. Ovary shortly stalked, glabrous. 

 —Gilg in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 288. 



Moxamb. Bistr. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwu Mshuza, on dry 

 steppes, 5000 ft,, Hoist, 8963 ! and without precise locality, Buchwald, 274! 



Iviperfecthj k)iown species, 



26. G. katangensiSy Gilg <(• Dew. in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 276. 

 Flowering stems erect, apparently arising from a stout rhizome, 

 glabrous. Leaves remote, linear-lanceolate, sessile, acute, membranous^ 

 quite glabrous, f-1 in. long, H-3 lin. broad. Heads 40-60-flowered, 

 terminal, solitary ; involucral bracts 7-9, lanceolate, acute, herba- 

 ceous, rather more than J as long as the flowers. Flowers 4-merous, 

 apparently red or brick-coloured. Calyx-tube slender, cylindric, densely 

 clothed with long white hairs, f-J in. long ; lobes ovate or broadly ovate, 

 acute, clothed v/ith long white hairs on the outside, glabrous within, 

 2-3 lin. long. Petals 0, or very rarely represented by minute points. — 

 Gilg <k Dew. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxiii. 105. 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo : Katanga ; abundant on the savannahs near 

 Katete, Cornet. 



From the description, this species would appear to be allied to Q. oliveriana, 

 Engl. & Gilg. 



