Gnidia] cxii. thymel^acejE. 923 



1842) ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 234 (1851); Engl. Hochgebirgs- 

 flora, p. 309 (1892). 



Htjilla. — A slender shrnblet, 8 to 4 ft. high ; stem erect ; branchlets 

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

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

 thin forests from Monino towards Quilengues ; fr. and few fl. AprU 

 1860. No. 6481. An erect, much-branched undershrub, woody at the 

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

 fr. April 1860. Coll. Carp. 886. 



2. G, Mgens Welw. Apontam. p. 548 sub n. 79 (1859) 

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



Gnidia sp., Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. p. 155 (1 Feb. 1859). 



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

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

 virgate, 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 -^ to ytsVci. broad; 

 flowers about ^ in- loi^gj tetramerous, brilliantly scarlet, about 

 20 together arranged in terminal involucrate heads ; peduncles 

 bare of leaves, f to 1 in. long, erect ; involucral leaves 6, 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 i in. broad ; 

 perianth-tube about -^ 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 

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

 all included and reaching the same height, the upper 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. 



PuNGO 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 Hiern, sp. n. 



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

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

 or ascending,^ simple or branched near 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 narrowed at the subsessile base, 

 rigid, erect or suberect, glabrous, j to f in. long by -Jg- to ^ 

 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 ; involucral leaves about 8, oval-obovate, obtuse 

 or mucronate at the apex, somewhat narrowed towards the 



