Lasiosiphon.] cxviii. thymel^ace^ (pearson). 229 



E. Meyer in Bull. Acad. Petersb. i. (1843), 359. Dais virgata^ Lichtenst. 

 ex Meisn. in DC. Piodr. xiv. 561. 



ItXozamb. Bistr. Rhodesia : Ngamiland ; Nakalechwe, near Lake Ngami, 

 Lugard, 24 ! Botletle River flats, Mrs. Lugard, 4 ! 



Common in Soutli Africa. 



3. L. soxnalensis, H. H. W. Pearson. A low shrub, unbranched 

 or with rigid erect branches, glabrous in the older parts, J-2J ft. high. 

 Leaves scattered, erect, linear-lanceolate, acute, thick, glabrous, very 

 shortly petioled, J-1 in. long, 1-1 i lin. broad. Heads terminal, many- 

 flowered ; involucral bracts 7-8, lanceolate, acute, silky on the outside, 

 shorter than the flowers. Flowers 5-merous, pedicelled ; pedicel about 

 ■| in. long, silky-pubescent, with a ring of long erect hairs at the summit. 

 Calyx-tube slender, pubescent above the articulation, densely villous 

 with long erect yellowish-white hairs below, about J in. long ; lobes 5, 

 ovate, pubescent beneath, glabrous above, spreading, about j lin. long. 

 Petals 0. Ovary bearing a few silky hairs at the summit. Fruit ovoid, 

 lJ-2 lin. long; pericarp thin, black, brittle. — Arthrosolen somalensis^ 

 Franch. in Revoil, Pays 9omalis, 62, t. 6. Gnidia violacea, Gilg in Ann. 

 Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 98. 



wile Ziand. Somalilatid ; Ouanentab, Revoil ; Ononuf and Hahi, James Sf 

 Thrupp! Golis Range, Mrs. Lort- Phillips ! Drake- Brockman, 114! 123! 356! 

 Onldoo Hammed, Miss Edith Cole ! between Deragodle and Lafaru, Riva, 345 ! 



Var. glabra, H. H. W. Pearson. Invohicral bracts glabrous. — Gnidia soma- 

 iensis, Gilg in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 98. 



DTlle liand. Somaliland: between Rer-es-Sogair and Berbera, Robecchi 

 Bricchetti^ 85 ! 



4. Ij. Fischeri, Engl, d; Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 2^^. Stem 

 much-branched above, many-headed, glabrous. Leaves (upper) oblong, 

 rigidly membranous or subcoriaceous, glabrous, subacute, rounded at 

 the base, very shortly petioled, |-J in. long, 2-3 lin. broad. Heads 

 8-10-flowered, pedunculate ; peduncle leafless, 2-4 lin. long; involucral 

 bracts 4-5, suborbicular, broader than long, thinly membranous, per- 

 sistent, about j as long as the flowers. Flowers 5-merous, pedicelled ; 

 pedicels about 1 lin. long, villous with long erect hairs. Calyx-tube 

 cylindric, very densely silky-tomentose, \ in. long ; lobes narrowly 

 ovate, densely clothed with long silky hairs lJ-2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad. 

 Petals thinly membranous, linear, obtuse or somewhat emarginate, ^-\ 

 as long as the calyx-lobes. Ovary stalked, glabrous. Fruit fusiform, 

 covered with the villous persistent base of the perianth, J in. long, 

 1 lin. thick ; hairs about \ in. long. — Gnidia Fischeri, Engl. &Gilg, I.e. ; 

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



Mozaxub. Blstr. German East Africa : \r^n^\, Fischer, b\2\ 



5. L. Emini, Engl, d: Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 26G. Stem 

 stout, much-branched above, glabrous, exceeding 1 ft. high. Leaves 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, rigidly membranous, glabrous, more or less 

 rounded at base and apex, very shortly petiolate, 1-1 J in. long, J- J in. 

 broad. Heads 5-8-flowered, pedunculate ; peduncle leafless, 2-3 lin. long ; 



