Lasiosiphon.] cxviii. THYMEL^ACEiE (pearson). 231 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000-7500 ft., Mann, 

 1201 ! 2171 ! Buea, 6800 ft., Preuss, 631 ! 



irile Xiand. Abysainiii : near Gondar, on the mountains, Biippel ! Gallas 

 Plateau, Steudel, 1284 ! Amora-Gettel, Schimper^ 1342 ! and without precise 

 locality, Plowden / British East Africa : Mount Kenia, above 8000 ft., Battiscombe, 11 ! 



Mozamb. Blstr. Geraian East Africa: Kilimanjaro; on the north side, 

 10,400 ft,, Volkens, 2012! Usangu, Qoetze, 990! and without precise locality, 

 -BMj«e, 282! Biitish Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., 

 Whyte^ 121 ! McClounie, 147 ! between M'pata and the Tanganyika Plateau, 2000- 

 3000 ft., Whyte! 



8. la. Kranssiiy Meian. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 596. Stems erect, 

 simple or little- branched, arising from a stout rootstock, pubescent 

 with spreading hairs, glabrescent or glabrous, J-2 ft. high. Leaves 

 elliptic, lanceolate or narrowly ovate, glabrous or hairy, rounded, 

 obtuse or acute, J-l| in. long, J-J in. broad. Heads solitary, terminal, 

 compact, many-flowered ; peduncle velvety-pilose, 1-4 in. long ; involu- 

 cral bracts 6-10, lanceolate or ovate, obtuse, densely pubescent, |-f in. 

 long. Flowers S-merous, shortly pedicelled ; pedicel bearing a tuft of 

 short erect hairs. Calyx-tube stout or slender, bearing a dense brush 

 of erect white or yellowish-white hairs below the articulation, densely 

 pubescent above, J-f in. long ; lobes oblong or obovate, truncate, 

 rounded or emarginaie at tlie apex, 1-2 lin. long. Petals very thinly 

 membranous, oblong, emarginate or more or less deeply bisected, \-\ 

 as long as the calyx-lobes. Ovary sliortly stalked, densely villous with 

 long erect white hairs about twice its length ; style lateral, 2-3 lin. 

 long ; stigma capitate ; hypogynous disc minute, annular. Mature 

 fruit not seen. — Engl, in Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 310 ; Wood & 

 Evans, Natal Plants, iii. t. 256. L. Kraussii, vars., Meisn. I.e. 

 L. affinis, Kotschy & Peyr. PI. Tinn. 39, t. 19 B. L. djuricus, 

 Ciilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 269. Gnidia kraussiana (and vars,), 

 Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. (1843), 552, 553; Gilg in Engl. 

 Pti. Ost-Afr. C. 283. Gnidia djurica, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 268. 

 G. dschunca, Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 6A, 228. 

 G. usinjensisj Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 269 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. I.e. 



Vpper Guinea. Futa Jallon : Labe, Chevalier, 12327 I Northern Nigeria : 

 Kontagora, Dalziel, 53 ! 



irile Kand. Jur : between Kurshook Ali's Seriba and the Wau River, 

 Schxveinfurth, iii. 116! 117! between Bongo and Jur, Tinne, 75! Dur Fertit; 

 Golo Desert, Schweinfurth, iii. 115, Bahi-el-Ghazal, Broun! 



liO'wer Oalnea. Angola : near the River Cunene, Johnston ! Huilla, Antunes, 

 119 ! by the River Kuhango, 3600 ft., Baum, 376 ! Malange Dist., Oossweiler, 

 1014! 1017! 



Moxami). Bistr. German East Africa: Unyika, Qoetze, 1369! Usinja; 

 Nyakamaya, Stuhlmann, 862 ! Western bank of the Nyanza to Kagera, Trotha, 

 141 ! Ufipa (Afipa), western boundary of the Rikwa (Rukwa) Mountains, 7000 ft., 

 Hostmann I Karagwe ; on dry stony hills, 4000-5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8162 ! 

 Portuguese East Africa: Johnson, ^1 \ 508! liritish Central Africa: Uningu; 

 Fwambo, Carson, 9&\ Nutt ! Nyasaland; A ngoniland, S'Aarpe, 59 ! Mount Malosa, 

 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Cameron 1 top of Mount Zoinba, Buchanan, 125 ! and 



