G'nidia] cxii. TiiY.Mi:L.f:ArE.E. 023 



1842) ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 234 (IS;')!) ; En^'l. H.-cli-chirgs- 

 flora, p. 309 (1892). 



Htii.i.A. — A slender shrublet, :'> to 4 ft. hif,'h ; stem erect : liranchlets 

 very numerous, densely leafy, many-flowered ; leaves glaucous ; flowers 

 deep yellow, the involucres dusky orange, at length dusky black. In 

 thin forests from ^louiuo towards Quilengues ; fr. and few ti. April 

 IHtiO. No. 6481. An erect, much-branched undershrub, woody at the 

 base. In wooded places at the river Monino in the Quilengues country ; 

 fr. April 18(10. Com.. Cai;i'. «8G. 



2. G. fulgens Welw. Apoutam. p. 548 sub n. 79 (1859) 

 {fulgene); Britten, Journ. Bot, xxxiii. p. 75 (March 1895). 



Chiidia sp., Welw. in Journ. Linn. Sec. iii. p. 155 (1 Feb. 1859). 



A rigid herb, 1 to 1.^ ft. high ; rootstock thick, woody, poly- 

 cephalous, perennial ; stems numerous, erect or ascending, sub- 

 \'irgate, more or less branched, glabrous, glaucescent ; branches 

 erect or ascending, glabrous, densely leafy ; leaves alternate or 

 crowded, sub-linear, acute at the apex, somewhat narrowed to 

 the sessile base, glabrous, glaucescent, somewhat rigid, suberect 

 or slightly diverging, \ to f} in. long by ^J^ to -j^ in. broad ; 

 flowers about |- in. long, tetramerous, brilliantly scarlet, about 

 20 together arranged in terminal involucrate heads ; peduncles 

 bare of leaves, ;} to 1 in. long, erect ; invohicral leaves (I, oval, 

 obtuse at both ends, sessile, imbricate, glabrous or minutely 

 glandular-scaly, striate-nerved, a little coloured about the apex 

 and upper part of the margin, ^ in. long by ^ to \ in. broad ; 

 perianth-tube about ?t inch long, often somewhat flexuous, clothed 

 outside with white long or woolly hairs, glabrous inside, breaking 

 across the middle ; the lobes of the limb obovate, rounded at the 

 ape.x, about ^ in. long; scales ; stamens 8, in two rows, glabrous, 

 all inclmled and reaching the same height, the ujiper 4 on short 

 filaments opposite the perianth lobes and inserted a little below 

 the throat, the lower 4 on longer filaments alternating with the 

 others and inserted a little above the middle of the perianth-tube ; 

 style included, glabrous, falling short of the stamens. 



Pi NGo Andongo. — At MutoUo, very rare, fl. Jan. 1857 : also in 

 marshy meadows near Sobato N-billa, plentiful, fl. March 1857. 

 No. 6483. 



3. G. Welwitschii Iliern, sp. n. 



An erect, rigid shrublet or unilershrub or almost a shrub, 

 1 to 3 feet high, rootstock thick, woody ; stems numerous, erect 

 or ascending, simple or branched ne;ir the base, or sparingly 

 branched above, glabrous, virgate ; branches strict or erect, 

 glabrous, leafy ; leaves alternate or crowded, linear, acute or 

 pointed at the apex, somewhat nan-owed at the subsessile base, 

 rigid, erect or suberect, glabrous, | to 'l in. long by .'^ to v}^ 

 in. broad ; flowers scarcely ?, in. long, tetramerous, brilliantly 

 vermilion or scarlet, about 24 together arranged in terminal 

 involucrate heads, shortly pedicellate ; peduncles bare of leaves, 

 very short, erect ; invohicral leaves about 8, oval-obovate, obtuse 

 or miTcronate at the apex, somewhat narrowed towards the 



