592 Lxxi. COMPOSIT.E. [Gongrothmnius 



arranged almost in a peltate manner ; petioles | to | in. long, 

 felted; capitula about 22-flowt)red, obconical, | to |- in. long, 

 woolly below, pallid, numerous, on short unequal bracteolate 

 pedicels arranged in hemispherical terminal panicles 2 to 3 in. in 

 diameter or in ampler leafy compound panicles ; scales of the 

 involucre pluriseriate, pointed, uninerved, the outermost very 

 small woolly outside and subdeltoid, the inner successively larger 

 more oblong and less woolly, the innermost about i in. long, 

 lanceolate-oblong, acute and ciliolate about the apex ; corollas 

 shortly 5-cleft, the lobes rather obtuse, about one-third as long as 

 the tube, furnished at the apex with a large thick gland ; anther- 

 bases appendaged ; basal appendages linear, truncate ; style at the 

 base seated on a depressed quasi-annular bulb ; the branches 

 somewhat flattened on the inner face ; young achenes densely 

 hairy with stiff hairs directed upwards and arranged in about 10 

 longitudinal rows ; pappus setaceous, sordid-tawny, subuniseriate, 

 a few outer setse short, the inner about ^ in. long, rather hispid 

 and rigid, slightly dilated and ciliolate-fimbriate at the apex ; 

 receptacle pitted, the pits with irregularly I'aised margins. 



HniLLA. — In sunny rocky bushy places between MumpuUa and Nene ; 

 not yet in open fl. Oct. ; sparingly in fl. Deo. 1859. At 5000 ft. 

 altitude. No. 3271. 



This is nearly related to G. divaricaius Steetz, but is not glabrate. 



2. G. angolensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, under favourable circumstances 

 becoming woody, sparingly branched ; branches spreading, rambling, 

 terete, purplish, glabrate, sulcate-striate, rather slender, nearly 

 straight ; branchlets puberulous or obsoletely woolly, erect-patent ; 

 leaves elliptical, alternate, more or less narrowed at both ends 

 especially towards the base, subapiculate at the apex, membranous, 

 glabrate or puberulous, yellowish-green (in the dry state), entire 

 crenulate or obscurely toothed, 1 to 2 in. long by ^ to f in. broad, 

 minutely punctate, triplinerved and penniveined ; petioles ^ to 

 ^ in. long or less ; capitula numerous, ^ in. long, campanulate- 

 oblong, 4-flowered, on short pubescent bracteolate pedicels arranged 

 in rather dense compound more or less leafy corymbose or hemi- 

 spherical terminal cymes of 2 to 8 in. in diameter ; bracteoles 

 ovate or lanceolate pubescent, small ; involucral scales pluriseriate, 

 firmly scarious, the outer short broadly ovate apiculate and outside 

 pubescent, the inner gradually longer more lanceolate acute and 

 nearly glabrous ranging up to ^ in. long ; flowers i in. long ; 

 corollas i in. long, yellow, narrowly tubular, not much dilated 

 upwards, shortly 5-lobed ; the lobes lanceolate, curving outwards ; 

 anthers sagittate at the base, each with a lanceolate appendage 

 at the apex ; style exserted, arising from a bulbous sub-annular 

 disk (or nectary) at the base, puberulous on the upper part ; the 

 branches also puberulous, spreading-recurved, subobtuse ; achenes 

 i, irregularly obconical-obovoid, unequally 10-ribbed, ^^ in. long, 

 shortly pubescent, with a small callus at the base ; pappus sub- 



