542 LXXI. COMPOSITE. | Llephantopus 
with shrubs, between Lopollo and Jau; without fl. Feb. ; with fl. 
end of April 1860. No. 3390. Flowers blue-purple ; at Ferrio da 
Sola ; fl. end of April 1860. No. 3391. 
TripE I]. EuPATORIACE®. 
7. ADENOSTEMMA Forst. ; Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 239. 
Bulbopodium Welw, ex O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 22. 
1. A. viscosum Forst. Char. Gen. p. 90, t. 45 (1776); O. & H. 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, p. 299. 
Verbesina Lavenia L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 902 (1753); non Roxb, 
A. Lavenia O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. p. 304 (1891). 
Gotunco ALTo.—<An erect or ascending, annual herb, 2 ft. high ; 
lower leaves opposite, the upper ones alternate ; corolla milk-white or 
dirty-white. In neglected places after cultivation in Sobato Bumba, 
sparingly ; fl. and fr. May 1856. No. 3513. 
Hvuiitia.—A herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; stem cylindrical, erect, branched, 
relatively thick, not hollow ; branches reddish ; lower leaves opposite ; 
capitula homogamous ; involucral scales biseriate, oblique, directed 
towards the periphery, deep ; corolla white, 5-cleft, papillose outside ; 
anthers ecaudate, relatively very broad ; style filiform, rather fleshy, 
quite glabrous, divided about the middle into 2 gradually clavate 
thickened yellowish papillose branches ; receptacle sub-convex, naked ; 
nectary cupular, denticulate ; achene elongate-triquetrous, verrucose 
all round, obcuneate, truncate, the angles subacute, narrowed, at 
the base and laterally seated on a little bulb ; pappus consisting of 
3 palee. In elevated situations along the streams of Morro de 
Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 3700. 
IsLAND OF St. THomMAs.—In wooded mountainous places, Monte 
Caffé, at 2000 ft. elevation ; fl. and fr. ; only one specimen, Dec. 1860. 
No. 3512. 
8. AGERATUM L.; Benth & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 241. 
1. A. conyzoides L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 839 (1753); O. & H. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, iii. p. 300. 
Carelia conyzodes O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. p. 325 (1891). 
Sierra Leonre.—Flowers pale-blue. In meadows and places of 
cultivation, near Freetown, abundant ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 3396. 
GoLtunco ALtTo.—An erect annual herb, 1 to 3 ft. high, with 
beautifully blue florets. In herbaceous places at the outskirts of 
thickets, near Sange, abundant; fl. and fr. middle of Jan. 1856. 
No. 3392. Everywhere throughout the district ; fl. and fr. June to 
Aug. No. 3393. At Dalatanda ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3394. 
IstAND OF MaprrrA.—In hilly places above’ Funchal, abundant ; 
fl. and fr. Aug. 1853. No. 3395. 
9, EUPATORIUM Tourn., L.; Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 245. 
1. E. africanum O. & H. in Oliv. FI. Trop, Afr. ii. p. 301; O. 
Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 22 (1896). 
GoLunGco ALTo.—A perennial herb, 2 or rarely 3 ft. high, with a 
woody rootstock and whitish flowers. On bushy declivities in Queta- 
Carengue, after the so-called Queimadas or burnings of the bush, 
tolerably abundant ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1855 and Jan. 1856. No. 3331. 
