624 
GNIDIA pinifolia ; 6. ochroleuca. 
Cream-coloured fir-leaved Gnidia. 
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OCTANDRIA WONOGYNLA.: | 
Nat: ord. THYMELE. Jussieu gen. 76. Brown prod. 1. 358. 
GNIDIA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 2. : 
G. pinifolia, foliis sparsis, lineari-acerosis: floralibus extenuatis angusté 
anceolatis capitulo brevioribus; corollé extis villosa, corona squamu- 
lis 4 hirsutis limbi lacinias decussantibus. Suprd vol. 1. fol. 19. 
(«) flore niveo, corone squamulis limbi laciniis plurimdm minoribus. 
Gnidia pinifolia. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 512. Berg. cap. 122. Mill. dict. 
ed. 8. n. 1. Thunb. prod. 76. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 424; (excl. Linn. suppl. 
cum sectione postreméd adjecte note, atque Wendl. quoad locum citatum. )- 
Andrews’s reposit. 52. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2.412. Curtis's magaz. 2016. 
Gnidia radiata. Wendl. obs. 15. t. 2. f. 12. 
Rapunculus foliis nervosis linearibus, floribus argenteis non galeatis. Burm. 
afric. 112. t. 41. fig. 3. Hous 
Valerianella wthiopica frutescens, Rosmarini folio, fl. albo. Seba thes. 2. 
32. t. 32. fig. 5. 
(Z) flore extis ochroleuco, limbi squamulis lacinias subzquantibus. 
Gnidia radiata. Loddiges’s bot. cab. n. (non vero planta Wendlandi). 
Desc. («): supra vol. 1. fol. 19. videnda. 
(8) Planta omni parti gracilior: folia letits virentia; floralia stellata: 
flores ochroleuci, limbi laciniw lineari-ligulate, obtuse, quater breviores 
tubo; squamule harum subisometre; tubus in articulo germen includente 
lucido-purpurascens: cetera excepto odore ut in (a). 
Raised from seed received from the Cape of Good Hope 
by Mr. Lee, of the Hammersmith Nursery, where the pre- 
sent drawing was taken. 
Flowers in the greenhouse about February. 
It differs from («), published in the first volume of this 
work (fol. 19), in being slenderer in all its parts; in having 
a lighter and brighter coloured foliage, the floral leaves of 
which are much more widely and loosely extended below the 
flower-head, by the corolla not being simply white but cream- 
coloured on the outside, and purple at the short joint that 
contains the germen; and finally by the segments of the 
limb being narrow and ligulate, obtuse, and not much 
longer than the scales which form the crown. The flowers in 
(~) are very fragrant in the evening and night, but scentless 
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