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produced at the apex into short triangular-lanceolate pointed 
appendages; style glabrous or nearly so up to its 2 short 
lanceolate acute narrow included hispidulous-ciliate branches ; 
ovary very short, scattered with some long pallid spreading hairs, 
with a broad callus at the base ; female florets outer, pauciseriate, 
narrowly tubular, rather shorter than the hermaphrodite florets 
but with the ovary longer than in them; young achene some- 
what compressed, rather broader upwards, 4, in. long, hairy ; 
basal callus perforated; pappus sub-biseriate, setose, straw- 
coloured, 54, in. long; the sete numerous, unequal, setulose ; 
receptacle depresso-convex, shallowly pitted, beset except about 
the circumference with subpaleaceous setz. 
AmpacA.—On wooded hills near Puri-Cacarambola, sparingly, in 
company with Pollichia physaloides ; (Welw. herb. No. 5450) ; fl. and 
young fr. Oct. 1856. No. 4005. 
The general appearance of the plant suggests the genus Nidorella, 
but the technical characters are rather of Jarsea. 
4. M. Gouani. 
Erigeron Gouani L. Mant. Pl. alt. p. 469 (1771). Conyza 
Gouant Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. p. 1928 (1800); O. & HL, Zc., p. 316. 
Ampaca.—A herb, apparently biennial, with the habit of an 
Erigeron; stem ascending, branched in the upper part; florets 
yellowish. In the gravelly beds of dried-up rivulets between Canalo 
and Cabinda, and from the latter towards Izanga; fl. and fr. Oct. 
1856. No. 3439. 
Punco ANpDoNGO.—Stoloniferous. In wet wooded meadows 
between Luxillo and Cazella ; fl. and young fr. April 1857. This is 
probably the plant referred to by Welwitsch in Journ. Linn. Soe. iii., 
p- 154 (1859), as a kind of Erigeron. No. 3425. A herb with erect 
stems from a perennial rootstock, 1 to 3 ft, high and yellowish flowers. 
In the rocky thickets of Valle de Cabondo, rather rare; fl. Feb. 
1857. No. 3438. 
Hvuiiia.—At Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3423. Flowers 
yellowish. In rich pastures near Lopollo ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 3424. 
In places of cultivation near Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. Root 
premorse, fibrous; stem 3 ft. high, sparingly branched. One 
specimen, copied for the British Museum set. No. 3487. 
5. M. pyrrhopappa. 
Conyza pyrrhopappa Schultz Bip. ex A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 
p. 389 (1847); O. & H., Le, p. 318. Hrigeron pyrrhopappus 
Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Fl. Aithiop. (i.), p. 147 (1867). 
Hvii1a.—An undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high. In neglected fields in 
the Lopollo country; fl. and fr. Nov. 1859 and end of Jan. 1860. 
No. 3427. 
‘This plant by number is quoted by O. Hoffmann in Bol. Soc. Brot. 
xlii., p. 23 (1896), as belonging to MW. Gouani. 
6. M. stricta. 
Conyza stricta Willd., l.c., p. 1922 (1800); O. & HL, de. 
Ampaca.—An annual or more frequently a biennial herb, erect, 
with the habit nearly of Erigeron, simple stem, and sordid-yellowish 
flowers. In sandy and gravelly places along the banks of the streams 
