514 LXXI. COMPOSITE. [Lthulia 
Ampaca.—In damp places on the left bank of the river Caringa ; 
fl. and fr. June 1855. No, 3384. An erect, branched herb, 2 to 4 ft. 
high, with purple or violet-rosy flowers, In bushy places by swamps 
near Izanga and at the banks of the river Lucala, sparingly ; fl. Oct. 
1856. No. 3385. 
Punco AnponGo.—A herb, 2 to 23 ft. high, with a ruddy stem and 
pretty violet-coloured flowers. By streams in Sobato Cabangas ; fl. and 
fr. 11 Jan. 1857. No. 3386. 
Hviitia.—Capitula corymbose, homogamous ; corolla violet-purple, 
tubular, 5-cleft to the middle, sub-campanulate at the throat, with 
oblong-lanceolate obtuse lobes ; style relatively large, with lanceolate 
rather compressed pointed densely puberulous branches. At the 
herbaceous margins of streams between Lopollo and Monino ; fl. 
and fr. Jan. 1860. No. 3381. Flowers purple. In marshy places 
between the lake of Ivantala and Quilengues, along the banks of the 
river Cacolobar ; fl. and fr. end of Feb. 1860. No. 3382. Two feet 
high ; leaves simple ; capitula corymbose, purplish. Same place and 
date. Cou. Carp. 689. 
2. E. monocephala Hiern, sp. n. 
A nearly glabrous perennial herb; stem slender, rooting and 
often branched at the base, ascending or erect and simple above 
the base, leafy except towards the apex and base; leaves 
alternate, linear, obtuse, sessile, mostly erect or ascending, entire, 
3 to 14 in. long, apparently somewhat succulent in the living 
state and wrinkled in the dry; capitula campanulate, + to } in. 
in diameter (exclusively of the corollas), many-flowered, solitary, 
terminating the stems, on a naked peduncle of 1} to 3% in. 
long; involucral bracts pauciseriate, lanceolate or oblong, sub- 
obtuse, adpressed, imbricate, unequal, slightly puberulous on the 
back or the upper ones ciliolate, the inner ones the longest, 
somewhat purple-coloured about the tip ; corollas about 2 to + in. 
long, all tubular, regular, narrowly obovoid-oblong, somewhat 
compressed, shortly 5-lobed, purple; anther-base obtuse; style- 
branches exserted,:puberulous, rather long, tapering, acute ; achene 
(young) oblong, truncate at the apex, slightly narrower towards 
the truncate base, compressed or somewhat angular, glabrous, ;*, in. 
long, with a few indistinct ribs ; pappus 0. 
Huiiira.—At the Lopollo river; fl. and young fr: Feb. 1860. 
No. 3982. 
2. GUTENBERGIA Schultz Bip. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 
ii. p. 224. 
1. G. polycephala O. & H. ex Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soe. xv. 
p. 95 (1876), and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 264. 
Punco AnDONGO.—Flowers purple. In sandy thickets near Sansa- 
manda, Feb. 1857 ; also in thickets between Condo and Quisonde on 
rather dry sandy clay, March 1857; fl. and fr. No. 3995. An erect 
branched herb, 14 ft. high, often becoming woody at the base and thus 
biennial ; flower-heads small, purple. In sandy wooded places on the 
left bank of the river Lutete, abundant ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3996. 
An erect annual herb, 2 to 33 ft. high, with violet-purple flowers. In 
moist sandy thickets on the left bank of the Luxillo stream, abundant 
there but most specimens not yet in fl. ; April 1857. No. 3997. 
