Llephantopus| LXXI. COMPOSITH. 54] 
sulcate-striate, clothed with rather long whitish simple strigose- 
hispid hairs which arise from a thickened or bulbous hard per- 
sistent base ; branches somewhat angular above ; lower internodes 
shorter than the leaves, the upper ones longer ; leaves alternate, 
oval-elliptical or the uppermost ones somewhat lanceolate, rather 
shortly narrowed to subacute apex, somewhat narrowed towards 
the rounded or obtuse base, toughly membranous, rigid, dark- 
green scattered with some hairs like those of the stem and marked 
with slender impressed venation above, canescent and densely 
hispid-pubescent beneath, 1 to 3 in. long by j to 13 in. broad ; 
the margin very narrowly revolute, minutely crenulate ; petiole 
very short, broad, dilated and clasping at the base, pubescent- 
hispid ; capitula narrowly ovoid-oblong, 2 to $ in. long, somewhat 
angular or compressed, 4-flowered, silvery-strigose, sessile, arranged 
(in one instance) in a cluster of 1 in. in diameter containing 
24 capitula which are grouped in 3 approximated subordinate 
subsessile clusters bracteate at the base, 2 lateral alternate and 
1 terminal, containing 7, 7, and 10 capitula respectively ; the 
bracts ovate or lanceolate, more or less equalling the capitula 
in length; the principal clusters broadly campanulate or sub- 
hemispherical, somewhat compressed, # to 1 in. in diameter, 
terminal and axillary, on pedicels ranging up to 22 in. long or 
sessile and then axillary or lateral, the whole forming a compound 
somewhat leafy or bracteate ovoid terminal cyme 5 to 9 in. in 
diameter ; in other instances the principal clusters consist of a 
greater or smaller number of subordinate clusters; involucral 
bracts 8 to 10, imbricate, from lanceolate to sublinear, 7 to 2 in. 
long, acute, silvery-strigose on the exposed part of the back, 
glabrous and shining inside, rigid, straight and erect or nearly so, 
the inner 4 or 5 longer and narrower than the rest, the outer 
ones somewhat cymbiform; corolla narrowly tubular, purple- 
blue ; the tube + in. long, very slender, glabrous ; the limb about 
zo in. long, quadripartite ; the segments sublinear, ciliate at the 
apex, unequal, =4, to ;4, in. long; anthers shorter than the corolla- 
segments, obtuse at the base, narrowly lanceolate at the apex, 
easily separating, style rather exceeding the corolla-segments, 
puberulous, rather shortly bilobed ; the lobes tapering ; achenes 
about 54, in. long, compressed, narrowing downwards, 10-ribbed, 
the ribs strigose with whitish hairs directed upwards, the inter- 
costal spaces scattered with minute glands; pappus + in. long, 
of a pallid-straw colour, consisting of 8 unequal compressed 
or slightly cymbiform narrow sub-paleaceous sete, more or less 
ciliolate towards the acute apex. 
Punco ANDONGO.—In open bushy forests between Quibinde and 
Quitage ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 3387. 
3. E. angolensis O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 172 (1893). 
Forma foliis valde rugosis, O. Hoftm., /.c., p. 173. 
Huitita.—A perennial herb, with the habit of the genus, and 
purple-blue flowers. Ona coarse-sandy soil in open places scattered 
