Monadenium.] cxxii. EurnoRBiACE.E (brown). 461 



sprinkled with very minute points on the back. Involucre 1 J lin. long^ 

 2^ lin. in diam., cup-like, with an erect margin, overtopping the § lin.- 

 long fringed inner lobes, puberulous outside. Ovary smooth, 2-wingecF 

 down each angle, with a perianth of 3 broadly ovate obtuse lobes, J lin, 

 long, glabrous; style-branches very short, free to the base, bifid to- 

 half-way down. 



Xiovirer Guinea. Angola: Benguella, Gossweiler ! 



'20. M. fwambense, N. E. Br. Stem apparently annual and arising 

 from a tuberous rootstock, erect, about H in. high in the only specimen 

 seen, somewhat swollen and \ in. thick for about 1 in. up from the base,, 

 the remainder in the dried state about yV in. thick, glabrous. Leaves 

 alternate, erect or ascending, IJ-lJ in. long, J-J in. broad, narrowly 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, about equally tapering from the middle 

 to an acute apex and a subsessile base, glabrous on both sides, with an 

 acute wing-like keel h lin. broad at the base along the midrib beneath. 

 Cymes very small, axillary, solitary, pendulous, ultimately composed of 

 3 (or more ?) involucres, in the immature specimen about J in. long, 

 glabrous in all parts; peduncles 1-1 J lin. long, abruptly recurved, 

 with 2 narrow wing-like keels. Bracts usually united into an acutt ly 

 2-lobed cup 2 J lin. long and 2 lin. broad, with 2 acute wing-like keels 

 down the back, but sometimes free nearly or quite to the base and 

 then narrowly deltoid or deltoid -lanceolate, acute, wing-keeled down the 

 back, herbaceous, with only the keel-vein visible, glabrous. Involucre 

 (including the very short stout pedicel) rather more than J in. longy 

 y\j in. in diam., cup-like, truncate at the top, with a thickened erect 

 entire margin, open to half-way down in front, much overtopping the 

 J lin. -long fringed inner lobes, glabrous ; ovary (very young) glabrous, 



Mozamb. Blstr. British Central Africa: Urungu; Fwambo, Car*o», 17 I 



21. M. crenatum, N. E. Br. Stem or stems probably arising from a 

 tuberous rootstock and annual, 3-5 in. high, ^J in. thick when dried, but 

 apparently somewhat fleshy, glabrous. Leaves alternate, sessile, fleshyy 

 1J-2J in. long, \-\ in. broad, linear-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute, tapering to the base, much crisped and wavy along the margins^ 

 glabrous on both sides. Cymes terminal, pedunculate, once or twice 

 forked, with 3-7 involucres, glabrous; peduncle J-J in. long, with 

 branches J-J in. long. Bracts apparently free at the forks of the 

 cyme, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, and united into an oblique cuj> 

 about 2 J lin. long under the terminal involucres, divided to the base in 

 front and to half -way down behind into 2 ovate very acuminate lobes,, 

 glabrous. Involucre when fully grown about 2 lin. long and 1 J lin. irir 

 diam., open to half-way down in front, with 4 distinct crenations at the 

 top of the erect margin, overtopping the fringed lobes, glabrous. Ovary 

 only seen in a very immature condition, apparently without a periantli, 

 glabrous ; styles united for nearly half their length, thickened at the 

 entire apex. 



Mozamb. Blstr. KliOvlesia or Portuguese East Africa (?) : on hills at Lions- 

 Crook, 1000 ft.. Schlechtev, 12204! 



