520 LXXI, COMPOSITE, [ Vernonia 
Quisonde and Condo ; fl. and young fr. middle of March 1857. No. 
3374. A slender annual herb, with violet-purple flowers, remarkably 
gregarious and growing in dense masses in company with the variety 
chlorolepis ; in moist wooded meadows by the river Cuanza, near 
Sansamanda, colouring violet very wide tracts; fl. and young fr. 
1 May 1857. No. 3375 (partly). 
8. Chlorolepis (Steetz, /.c.) O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 
p- 171 (1893). 
V. Steetziana O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 273. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A grey herb, 2 ft. high, with a broom-like habit 
and reddish flowers, the heads resembling those of a Centaurea; in 
dry places by thickets between Canatilo and Ambaca, abundant ; fl. 
and young fr. May 1856. No. 3376. 
PunGo ANDONGO.—A gregarious, erect, annual herb, with deep- 
purple flowers ; in very elevated, grassy, rocky parts of Pedra de Cazella 
within the presidium, abundant ; fl. and fr. May 1857. Also in sunny 
situations amongst the rocks of the presidium, fl. and fr. very rare, 
middle of Jan. 1857. No. 3370. Flowers purple; in wooded meadows 
between the fortress of Pungo Andongo and Mangue; fl. and fr. 
March 1857. No. 3371. An annual erect herb, branched in a broom- 
like manner ; leaves lanceolate, bright-green above, with whitish raised 
nervation beneath ; flowers purple ; in elevated herbaceous parts of 
Pedra Cabondo; fl. and fr. 17 April 1857. No. 3373. With the form 
vulgaris by the river Cuanza. No. 3375 (partly). 
MossaMEpDEs.—In blown sand ; fl. July 1859. A simple plant with 
linear leaves, only one specimen, apparently this variety. No. 3368. 
Hvi.tita.—Flowers purple; in exposed wooded places amongst 
thickets near Catumba; fl. and fr. April and May 1860. No. 3366. 
A rather rigid undershrub, with a straight stem and purple flowers ; 
in thin forests between Nene and Mumpulla, sparingly; several 
specimens seen, but only one in fl.; in company with plants of Fauwrea, 
end of May 1860. No. 3367. 
y. Hoffmanni. 
V. Perrottetii, forma microcephala, O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. 
x. p. 170 (1893) ; vix Schultz Bip. 
Punco ANDONGO.—At the sandy outskirts of forests between 
Condo and Quisonde, not far from the river Cuanza ; not yet in full 
fl. March 1857. No. 3372. 
MossaMEDES.—An erect or ascending annual herb, 2 ft. high, with 
alternate linear leaves and purple flowers. In sandy places at the 
banks of the river Bero, not far from the estuary, rather rare ; fl. and 
fr. end of July 1859. No. 3339. 
HviLia.—Flowers purple ; in bushy places in coarse sandy places 
between Ferrio da Sola and Jau; fl. and fr. beginning of May 1860. 
No. 3369. 
13. V. cinerascens Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Fl. Athiop. p. 162 
(1867) ; O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 275. 
Loanpa.—A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high; branches divaricate, brittle ; 
the whole plant very rigid, even the leaves which are rather fleshy 
turning rigid ; flowers purple. On sandy and rocky hills near Alto 
das Cruzes, rare in other places ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1854 and Jan. 1858. 
No. 3379. <A herb, 3 to 5 ft. high; stems cxspitose or crowded, 
ascending or suberect ; branches and branchlets brittle, rigid, scaly- 
