554 LXXI, COMPOSITA. [ Psiadia 
MossaMEDES.—In sandy submaritime places to the north of the 
town, very plentiful but seen only in one spot ; very few specimens 
in fl. beginning of July 1859. No. 3977. 
None of the florets appear to be ligulate. 
3. P. incana O, & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop, Afr. iii. p. 320. 
Hviitia.—A slender shrublet, with the habit of a Solidago, 5 ft. 
high or a little taller; branches sparse, rambling ; capitula hetero- 
gamous, radiate ; flowers yellow ; the ray-florets ligulate, the ligules 
obtuse and entire at the apex; disk-florets hermaphrodite 5-lobed ; 
style-branches exserted, shortly and densely pilose, obtuse ; achenes 
pilose ; pappus uniseriate, setose, the setz remotely setulose. On 
rocky sparingly bushy hills about Catumba, sporadic ; fl. and fr. April 
1860. No. 3920. A branched shrub 3 to 4 ft. high, with yellow 
flowers. In rocky thickets at Catumba. Perhaps one of the plants 
called “ Quitoco”’ ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3921. 
Our specimens differ from the type of the species by a less densely 
branched and somewhat rambling habit ; they may be considered as 
constituting a variety (var. vagans). 
TrisE LV.—INULOIDE. 
The following number, with oval, apiculate, thinly coriaceous, 
acutely toothed, alternate, petiolate leaves 2 to 34 in. long by 
1 to 2 in. broad glabrescent yellowish-green and minutely reticu- 
late above whitish-felted beneath, has the habit of the genus 
Brachylena ; but the specimens do not suffice for absolute 
reference. 
Huiitia.—A shrub of 5 to 6 ft., apparently the fresh shoots of a 
tree damaged by the burning of the woods. In mountainous rocky 
rather elevated places in Morro de Lopollo, rather rare ; without 
either fl. or fr. end of March 1860. No. 3528. 
20. TARCHONANTHUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 288. 
1. T. camphoratus L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 842 (1753); O. & H. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 321; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 206 (1884) ; 
Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. p. 421 (1892). 
HvILia.—A tree, exactly with the habit of a European broad-leaved 
olive, attaining in the primitive forests a height of 15 to 25 ft. or 
more, with its solid white-grey trunk full of cracks outside and 
reaching 15 in. in diameter, and with its spreading branches and 
branchlets forming a broad head ; but in the secondary woods or those 
formerly burnt, only a tree of 8 to 15 ft. with rather erect branches 
and branchlets ; leaves variable in shape, much larger in the young 
plant than in the adult, elongate-obovate or elliptic-obovate, the top 
ones lanceolate and bright green above, white-tomentose beneath with 
the very short felt soft to the touch, evergreen ; capitula homogamous, 
many-flowered, arranged in axillary racemes, apparently dicecious by 
abortion ; corolla white, naked inside, very densely white-shaggy 
outside, tubular ; the tube obconical ; the limb 5-cleft, with erect- 
spreading lobes; anthers exserted, loosely cohering or nearly free, 
bi-setose at the base ; style far exserted, scarcely or not at all bidentate 
but obtusely glandular at the apex ; ovary 0 in the male plant; re- 
ceptacle shaggy, narrow. In dense mixed forests to the south of the 
Lopollo colony, at Catumba, plentiful ; male fi, 11 April 1860. Timber 
