60 NEW SOMALI-LAND PLANTS. 
rulous or subscabrid. Leaves linear, pointed, sessile, 2°5-3 cm. 
long, the uppermost smaller, margins revolute, stipules shortly con- 
necting the leaf-bases, cuspidate. Flowers tetramerous, appa- 
rently ‘purple, pedicellate in few-flowered — pedicels 1 mm.— 
em. or sometimes longer. Calyx + 4 long, very shortly 
hairy, lobes lanceolate-acuminate. Corolla- ihe of larger flowers 
about 6 mm. long, tube 8-9 mm.long. Stamens and style included. 
Capsule 3 mm. lon 
Differs from O. Schimperi T. Anders. by its larger flowers and 
ee Leaves not so inclined to be fasciculate below. The 
mewhat in si m 
ayaa to the larger specimens examined, and are considerably 
in excess of those of typical O. Schimperi ; even the smaller flowers 
are rather bigger than those in the type of this latter plant. It 
differs from O. obtusiloba Hiern by having larger capsules and 
babar corolla-lobes 
Helichrysum iSeries Baker fil. Nanum fruticosum divari- 
catim et copiose ramosum; foliis sessilibus lanceolatis acutis 
sein cinereo-tomentosis ; capitulis parvulis teretibus pauci- 
floris corymbum densum terminalem capitulifo rmem constitu- 
centralibus sepissime 5 vel 6; carpellis “Ganilaea: ; pappi setis 
barbellatis 
Hab. Upper Sheik. ‘‘ Flowers yellow.’ 
Dwarf, fruticose, root descending, 10 em. long; divaricately 
and copiously branched, branches more or less cinereous-tomentose. 
aves sessile, lanceolate, often about 7-8 mm. lon egtser 
seriate, vetyink in wns sennecing to position, ae or cbisng: 
ovate ; apex subacute or — obtuse, scariose, eee somewhat 
in length, often about 2°5-3 mm., and about 1 mm. broad, of a 
shining deep straw-colour. Female florets frequently 8. Her- 
maphrodite florets 5 or 6. 
Allied to H. fhe Less., and H, Lastii Engler, Hochge- 
birgsflora, p. 430 (1892). 
Dicoma (§ Ku-Dicoma) somalense 8. Moore. Fruticosa, erecta, 
pring: ramosa, ramulis strictis sparsim foliosis sursum nudis 
basi sianlitiate ts exteriores «quan 
Se cps: Wagga Mountain, and tee of hills above the Upper 
eik. 
Rami m. diam., cortice cinereo hac atque illac rimoso 
obducti. Ramuli 0-1 1-0-23 em, diam., glandulis minutissimis im- 
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