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egyptiaca Ait. Hort. Kew., edit. 1, ii, p. 183 (1789); O. & H., 
Le, p. 314. 
AMBRIZ.—Quisembo ; fr. Nov. 1853. No. 3429. 
Gotungo AtTo.—A herb, 24 to 3: ft. high, bright green in the 
living state ; flowers yellowish. In moist places at the outskirts of 
palm-groves, near Trombeta and Cambondo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. 
June 1855. No. 3431. In sparingly grassy hilly places near N-delle ; 
fl. and fr. April and May 1856. No. 3428. Nonotes. Fr. No. 3426. 
Herbaceous, 2 to 3 ft. high; branches crowded; leaves ligulate- 
lanceolate, dentate ; capitula globose, straw-coloured. ' Sobato de 
Bango ; fr. Dec. 1854. Cou. Carp. 663. 
Puneo ANDONGO.—An annual herb ; stem ascending or sub-erect, 
2 to 3 ft. high, branched, patently pilose, leafy ; florets pale-yellowish; 
habit of Erigeron. In wooded bushy sandy places between the 
presidium and Luxillo ; fl. and fr. May 1857. No. 3482. 
HviitLa.—Flowers yellowish. In the wooded meadows of the Eme, 
amongst tall herbs ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 3480. On sandy plains 
between Lopollo and Quipungo, by the roadside near the latter place, 
sporadic ; fl.-bud, Feb. 1860. No. 3483. 
Of the above Nos. 3430 and 3431 have their leaves pinnati- 
partite with sublinear lobes, and have therefore been referred by 
©. Hoffmann in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii., p. 23 (1896) to a variety 
C. lineariloba DC. Prodr. v., p. 385 (1836); No. 3432 has leaves 
occupying an intermediate position between this variety and the 
typical form of the species. No. 3426 has the pedicels of the capitula 
ranging up to 3 in. long and the achenes nearly glabrous; it thus 
approaches C. senegalensis Willd. ; the pappus, however, is somewhat 
reddish. 
3. M. spartioides. 
Conyza spartioides O. Hoffm. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx. p. 224. 
I have not seen the type of Hoffmann’s plant, but the descrip- 
tion of it agrees fairly well with the following, except that the 
involucral bracts are said to be oval in Hoffmann’s species. 
An erect somewhat scabrid perennial herb, 14 to 2 ft. high, 
with the habit of a rush ; rootstock more or less creeping, woody ; 
stems and branches strict, almost leafless, sulcate, angular, rather 
shining, scattered with short hispid hairs arising from hard 
thickened bases; leaves alternate, few, suberect, sublinear, 
pointed, rather thickened at the sessile base, entire, somewhat 
hispid-scabrid, } to 3 in. long; capitula heterogamous, disciform, 
hemispheroidal, + to + in. in diameter, many-flowered, on very 
short pubescent bracteate pedicels, a few together in small 
pedunculate clusters arranged in a terminal subcorymbose cyme 
2 in.in diameter ; involucral scales obtuse or subacute, puberulous 
on the back, sublinear or linear-oblong, uninerved, pauciseriate, 
subequal in length, 4 in. long or a little longer, narrowly sub- 
scarious and ciliolate on the margin ; bracts on the pedicels few, 
resembling the involucral scales ; hermaphrodite florets numerous, 
multiseriate, central, 1 in. long or a little longer ; corolla narrowly 
funnel-shaped, from a quasi-stipitate base, sessile-glandular out- 
side, yellow, shortly 5-lobed, those of the female flowers small 
and slender ; the lobes triangular ; anthers obtuse at the base, 
