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and lateral veins slender ; margin denticulate with short subulate 
teeth directed forward in continuation of a veinlet ; capitula 
campanulate, + to } in, in diameter, about 40-flowered, on unequal, 
short or very short densely hispidulous often bracteate pedicels, 
arranged in compound thyrsoid terminal oblong obtuse cymes 
4 to 6 in. in diameter ; bracts sub-linear, hairy ; involucral scales 
pluriseriate, sublinear or lanceolate, pointed, beset with whitish 
curly hairs outside, glabrous inside, more or less apiculate, 
becoming more or less squarrose at the tips in fruit; the outer 
scales short and sublinear, the inner longer and linear-lanceolate, 
the innermost longest and lanceolate or sublinear, persistent, 
% in. long; corolla purple or rose-purple, + in. long, narrowly 
funnel-shaped, scattered with minute glands outside, shortly 
5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate ; anthers with lanceolate tails at 
their base, the apical appendages lanceolate; style-branches 
slightly puberulous, tapering; achene ;}, in. long, unequally 
tetragonous, 4- or 5-ribbed, glabrous on the ribs, glandular and 
hispidulous between the ribs ; pappus biseriate, whitish or some- 
what sordid, outer row short, narrowly paleaceous, cut on the 
margin; inner row setaceous, 4 in. long, the sete barbellate, 
narrower than those of the outer row; receptacle nearly flat, 
narrow, areolate. 
GoLuNGo ALTO,—In Serras de Bumba and at the outskirts of the 
forests of Sobato de Mussengue ; fl. and fr. Aug. 1855. Also by 
wooded thickets in Sobato de Mussengue, rather rare; the leaves 
destroyed by insects ; fr. June 1856. No. 3296. 
AmBACA.—By thickets along the left bank of the river Caringa, 
abundant but only one specimen seen in fl. June 1855. No. 3298. 
Punco ANDONGO.—In thickets on the island of Calembe in the river 
Cuanza, sporadic ; fl. March 1857. Only one specimen. No. 3297. 
As the account of this species in the Flora of Tropical Africa 
was taken from the comparatively poor specimen collected by 
Consul] Burton in the Congo district, and as Welwitsch’s specimens 
greatly extend our knowledge, a detailed description is here 
supplied. 
4. V. pandurata Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. p. 296 (1822) ; 
O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, iii. p. 271. 
AmBriz.—An annual herb, 6 to 15 in. high, growing in dense masses, 
corymbosely branched above ; involucral scales and corollas bright 
purple. Abundant on sandy plains between Mossul and the town of 
Ambriz, gathered in flight under pursuit by the stone-throwing 
Musuls ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 3316. 
LoanpA, Barra DO DANDE, and Barra dO BENGO.—An erect 
branched herb, 1} to 2, or even 3 to 4 ft. high, with pretty purple 
flowers. In moist fields between Quicuxe and Teva; fl. and fr. July 
and Aug. 1858. No. 3317. Flowers light-blue or reddish-brown. In 
damp bushy places at the river Bengo near Quifandongo ; fl. and fr. 
Dec. 1853. No. 3318. 
GoL_uNnco ALTo,—Among scanty bushes on the left bank of the 
river Quiapoze by the road leading to Mussengue, rather rare ; late 
fl. and fr. beginning of Oct. 1855. No. 3319. An erect herb, 2 to 
