528 LXXI. COMPOSITE. | Vernonia 
caudate at the base, with lanceolate appendages at the apex; 
style-branches not much exceeding the anther-tube, puberulous, 
tapering, bluish; achenes short, about 8-ribbed, glabrous, somewhat 
glandular ; pappus rufous, pluriseriate, setose ; the sete setulose- 
barbellate, the outermost row short, acute, scarcely squamiform. 
Punco AnpdoNGO.—In rocky thickets in the presidium facing the 
south ; fl. and young fr. middle of Dec. 1856. No. 3288. In wooded 
pastures in Serra de Pedras de Guinga; after fall of the corollas, 
Jan. 1857. No. 3289. In sandy pasture scattered with bushes near 
Candumba ; few fl. 1857. No. 3290. 
27. V. senegalensis Less. in Linnea iv. p. 265 (1829); O. & H. 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, p. 283 ; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 205 (1884). 
Decaneurum senegalense DC. Prodr. v. p. 68 (1836). 
AMBRIZ.—Flowers purple ; achenes subglabrous, with several ribs, 
beset with glands between the ribs ; pappus setose in one row. In 
bushy somewhat stony situations between the town of Ambriz and 
Quizembo ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 3346. A small tree, 5 to 7 ft. 
high, very elegant; trunk straight, bare below, 14 in. thick, with 
spreading branches at the head; flowers whitish or purplish. On 
bushy hills next the sea, between the town of Ambriz and Quisembo ; 
fl. and young fr. beginning of Nov. 1853. No. 3352. 
BarRA DE DanpDE.—A shrub of 5 to 6 ft., with spreading branches 
like a tree ; flowers pale-lilac. On stony hills near Barra de Dande ; 
fr. and few fl. Nov. 1853. The bark of the trunk and the root are very 
bitter, and they are held in high repute by the natives as a tonic. 
No. 3347. 
Loanpa.—A branched shrub, 5 to 7 ft. high, branches ascending ; 
bark bitter, furnishing an astringent decoction ; flowers whitish- 
reddish, fragrant ; corolla-tube more or less conspicuously glandular- 
puberulous ; anthers shortly hastate scarcely tailed at the base ; style 
pointed and quasi-stipitate at the base, from the middle towards the 
base remarkably compressed-flat ; nectary elevated, cupuliform, deli- 
cately denticulate at the mouth or rarely entire ; achene more or less 
clearly 10-striate, subglabrous, glandular between the ribs. About 
Imbondeiro dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. June 1858. No. 3354. A low tree 
with a widely spreading head or in cultivated districts a shrub of 
5 to 6 ft.; corolla violet-whitish ; involucres yellow or somewhat 
chestnut-green, with the scales ciliate on the margin ; pappus uni- 
seriate, turning rufous in course of drying, subentire at the base, 
with strict denticulate somewhat thick and rigid sete. About ponds 
(represas) at Imbondeiro dos Lobos, rather rare; fl. and fr. July 1854. 
No. 3355. 
ZENZA DO GoLUNGO.—Achenes more or less obcuneate, slightly 
compressed by mutual pressure, 10-ribbed, beset between the ribs with 
several irregularly arranged glands, truncate at the apex ; pappus 
uniseriate ; setze equally long, reddish, shortly hispidulous, persisting 
a_long time. On sparingly bushy hills between Tanderaxique and 
Calumguembo ; fi. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 3348. 
GoLUNGO ALTO.—A loosely-branched shrub, 3 ft. high, with whitish- 
lilac flowers. In thickets along the highway between Trombeta and 
Cabondo ; fl. and young fr. Sept. 1854. No. 3349. A shrub of 4 ft., 
much branched from the base ; branches tomentose, rather erect ; 
leaves especially the upper ones with large undulations so that they 
appear sinuous ; involucres green, with obtuse scales densely ciliate 
with whitish hairs ; corollas of a whitish-violet colour, rather fleshy, 
