Arthrosolen.'] cxviii. thymel^ace^ (pearson). 237 



glabrous. — Gnidia pleurocephala, Grilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 

 310. 



]Lower Guinea. Angola : Longa River, 4000 ft., growing on the bank of a pool^ 

 very rare, Bautyi, 828. 



7. A. fulgens, H. II. W. Pearson. Stems numerous, erect or 

 ascending, branched, glabrous, 1-1 J ft. high, arising from a woody 

 rhizome. Leaves crowded, linear^ acute at the apex, glabrous, rigid, 

 \-\ in. long, about J-1 lin. broad. Heads terminal, about 20-flowered ; 

 involucral bracts 6, oval, obtuse, glabrous or minutely glandular, 

 somewhat coloured towards the apex, \ in. long, about 2 Kd. broad. 

 Flowers brilliant scarlet, 4-merous. Calyx-tube silky-pubescent or 

 -villous, about \ in. long ; lobes obovate, rounded at the apex, about 

 \ in. long. — Gitidiafidgens, Hiorn in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 923. 



ZiO-wer Guinea. Angola; Pungo Aiulongo; at Mutollo and in marshy 

 meadows near Sobato Nbilla, Welwitsch, 6483 ! 



8. A. foliosa, //. //. IF. Pearson. Flowering stems stout, woody, 

 erect, perhaps 2-3 ft. high, bearing numerous short slender leafy 

 branches. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 

 narrowed towards the base, glabrous, with prominent venation, 1-1 j 

 in. long. Heads about 12-fiowered, axillary, peduncled ; peduncle 

 slender, usually leafless, except near its insertion, |-2 in. long; in- 

 volucral bracts 4, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex, more 

 or less narrowed at the base, membranous, not coloured, with con- 

 spicuous venation, glabrous, scarcely exceeding the flowers. Calyx-tube 

 silky-villous without, especially below the articulation, glabrous within, 

 J-| in. long ; lobes oblong, obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent without. 

 Ovary glabrous. 



Upper Guinea. Soudan ; between Banimako and Guignula. Chevalier, 256 ! 



Schlechter, 12287, collected in Portuguese East Africa at "25 miles station " on 

 April 11, 1898; a specimen collected by Dr. T. G. Xicholso . in X. Nyasalaiid and 

 Chevalier, 6656, from the Upper Chari, are represented in the Kew lierbarium by 

 specimens too incomplete for description. 



5. ENGLERODAPHNE, Gilg in Engl. Jaiirb. xix. 274. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous. Calyx-tube coloured, cylindric, 

 glabrous, somewhat constricted below the middle, continuous ; lobes 

 spreading during flowering. Petals bisected to the base ; lobes fleshy, 

 linear-spathulate, toothed at the apex, about f as long as the calyx- 

 lobes. Stamens 8, in 2 whorls, those of the upper whorl half- 

 exserted, the lower inserted in the upper part of the calyx-tube ; 

 filaments almost obsolete ; anthers with obscure connective. Ovary 

 sessile, very hispid, 1 -celled ; style short, filiform, arising laterally near 

 the summit ; disc 0. — Branched shrubs with opposite flat leaves. 

 Flowers in terminal few-flowered ebracteate fascicles. 



Species 1, in East Tropical Africa and South Africa. 



