Erigeron| LXXI. COMPOSITE, 549 
Hvuiitita.—In wooded, sparingly bushy meadows between Catumba 
and Hay, abundant but seen nowhere else; fl. and fr. May 1860. 
No. 3448. 
Allied to E. Grantii Oliv. & Hiern. 
16. MICROGLOSSA DC.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 282. 
1. M. volubilis DC. Prodr. v. p. 320 (1836); O. & H. in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 309. 
Conyza pyrifolia Lam. Encycl. Méth. ii. p. 89(1786). C. volubilis 
Wall. List n. 3057 (1828). Psiadia volubilis Baill. Hist. Pl. viii. 
p. 300 (1886). I. pyrifolia O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. p. 353. 
GoLUNGO ALTO.—A scandent shrublet or an erect shrub with the 
ultimate branches climbing; leaves alternate, beneath tomentellous 
pellucidly reticulate and scattered with little glands ; capitula hetero- 
gamous ; outer involucral scales obtuse, hispid ; the inner ones longer, 
smooth, oblong, more or less fimbriate at the apex ; the flower-heads 
appear yellowish on account of the colour of the involucres ; florets 
whitish or pale-yellowish ; ray-florets pluriseriate, female, ligulate, 
filiform, very slender; hermaphrodite florets, central, few, 1 to 3, 
tubular, the corolla pretty deeply 5-cleft ; anthers very shortly cordate 
at the base, with obtuse auricles ; achene obovoid, scarcely obconical- 
oblong, rather compressed, thinly pilose ; pappus uniseriate, setose ; 
the setz straight, shortly hispidulous, whitish, beautifully cinnamon- 
brown, shining ; receptacle obsoletely fimbrillate. In reed-beds by 
the Delamboa, in the drier places; fl. and fr. July 1856. No. 3410. 
An undershrub, 3 to 35 ft. high, sometimes almost sarmentose and 
subscandent ; flowers pallid-yellowish or rather whitish. By thickets 
near Cungunho in Sobato de Bumba; fl. and fr, end of Sept. 1855. 
No. 3411. 
CazENGO.—A shrub, 4 ft. high and more, with quite patent branches 
and whitish flowers tinged with violet. In secondary thickets at the 
foot of Mount Muxaiilo ; fl. and fr. June 1855. A sort of “‘ Molilu” (?). 
No. 3412. 
Punco ANDONGO.—No notes. Fl. and fr. No. 3413. 
Bumeo.—-A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, loosely branched ; the ultimate 
branchlets occasionally elongated, quasi-scandent; leaves pellucidly 
reticulate and punctate ; flowers pallid-whitish or occasionally straw- 
coloured. In stony wooded places at the base of the mountains of 
Serra da Chella, near Chao de Chella, sporadic, and between Bumbo 
and Mumpulla ; sparingly in fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3409. 
2. M. angolensis O. & H., lc. 
GoLtunco ALTo.—A herb, 2 ft. high, with pallid-yellowish flowers. 
On grassy declivities about the base of the mountains of Serra de Alto 
Queta, at Sange; fl. and fr. July 1856. No. 3917. At Quibixe; fl. 
and fr. July 1855, No. 3919. 
ZENGAS DO QuETA.—An erect herb, 2 to 23 ft. high, with the habit 
of an Erigeron ; capitula heterogamous ; ray-florets bi- or pluri-seriate, 
female, with patent linear ligules of a very pallid-sulphur colour ; disk- 
florets tubular-campanulate, 5-cleft, yellow, the anther-tube exserted. 
On rather dry declivities among the mountains of the Central Queta ; 
fl. and fr. 15 Sept. 1856. No. 3918. 
This plant is a robust herb with a woody rootstock ; it has usually 
been described as an erect shrub of 3 to 5 ft. 
