Lasiosiphon.] cxviii. THYMEL^ACEiE (peajison). 233 



11. L. lampranthus, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 265. Stem stout, 

 erect, much-branched near the top, bearing several heads of flowers, 

 densely tomentose. Leaves oblong, acute or shortly apiculate, some- 

 what narrowed at the base, densely pubescent with long adpressed 

 silky hairs, 1-1 J in. long, J-^in. broad. Heads many-flowered (50-70) ; 

 involucral bracts 7-10, ovate, densely pubescent with long adpressed 

 hairs, spreading during flowering, about | as long as the flowers. 

 Flowers 5-merous, very shortly pedicelled; pedicel bearing long erect 

 stiff hairs. Calyx- tube cylindric, not distinctly articulated, densely 

 clothed with yellowish pubescence above the middle and with long stiff 

 erect yellowish hairs below, |-J in. long ; lobes ovate or elliptic, obtuse 

 or rounded at the apex, pubescent without, 1^-2 lin. long. Petals 

 linear-subulate, about ^ as long as the calyx-lobes. Stamens of the 

 upper whorl shortly exserted. Ovary glabrous below, bearing a tuft 

 of erect white hairs at the summit; style about J in. long; stigma 

 capitate, papillose ; hypogynous disc very minute, annular. Fruit not 

 seen. — Gnidialamprantha, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. I.e. 264 ; Kngl. Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 283. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa : Karagwe, 4200 ft., Stuhlniann, 1979 ! 

 3204 ! Uganda : West Ankole, Dawe, 362 ! Western Toro, Boggett ! 



12. L. hoepfherianus, Vatke ex Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 268. 

 Flowering stems erect, simple or little-branched, densely silky-pubescent. 

 •Leaves lanceolate, membranous, densely (the upper very densely) silky- 

 tomentose, acute, subsessile, |-1 in. long, lJ-2 lin. broad. Heads 

 terminal, oO-50-flowered ; peduncle densely silky-pubescent, 1-1 J in. 

 long ; involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, about | as long 

 as the flowers. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx-tube cylindric, very densely 

 silky-pubescent, villous below, J-| in. long; lobes obovate-oblong, 

 more or less emarginate, velvety-pubescent on the back, 2 lin. long, 

 1 lin. broad. Petals membranous, oblong, glabrous, -| as long as the 

 calyx-lobes. Ovary silky- villous. — Gnidia hospfnerianus, Gilg. I.e. ; Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 925, partly. 



Ziower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Okahand^a, Kopfner^ 40 ! 

 Angola: Huilla; between Mumpulla and Lopollo, Wekvitsch, 6476! 6479! and 

 without precise locality, Antunes,1^1\ Newton! Mossaraedes; Humpata, ilfe/Ao 

 Ramalho ! 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa: lower plateau north of Lake 

 Nyasa, Thomson ! llhodesia : between Broken Hill and Bwatia M'cuba, Allen, 

 360! 382! 100 miles north of the Zambesi Falls, Lord Kesteven! Batoka 

 Highlands, Kirk ! Nyasaland: Mount Masisi, McClounie, 70 I 



This may be only a villous form of L. Kraussii. 



13. L. Kerstingii, H. H. W. Pearson. Stems finely tomentose, 

 branched near the top, about 9 in. high, arising from a woody rootstock. 

 Leaves oblong, obtuse, narrowed towards the base, finely pubescent, 

 f-1 in. long, J in. broad. Heads solitary, terminal, many-flowered ; 

 involucral bracts about 8, oblong, obtuse, erect during flowering, about 

 § as long as the flowers ; peduncle short, tomentose. Flower yellow, 



