Inula} LXXI, COMPOSITA. 567 
by the Calumbo road; fl. June 1858. Only one specimen. Puberulous ; 
leaves paler beneath, submembranous, sessile. No. 3451. 
Barra DO Benco.—An erect slender annual herb, 14 to 23 ft. high; 
stem reddish, branched, patently ramulose ; capitula compact, homo- 
gamous, yellow ; receptacle convex, tuberculate-papillose. In moist 
sandy-clayey pastures between Quicuxe and Cacuaco, abundant but 
only in very few spots ; fl. and fr. beginning of Aug. 1858. No. 3449. 
2. I. glomerata O. & H., d.c., p. 359; O. Hoffm., l.c., p. 25. 
Ampaca.—A handsome perennial plant, 3 to 8 ft. high, and even 
higher, resembling a Phlomis in habit ; stem erect, branched, densely 
clothed, as well as the leaves and floral involucres, with a white- 
yellowish felt ; flowers yellowish. In the more elevated mountainous 
places near Puri-Cacarambola, not abundant, also near Halo on the 
left bank of the river Lucala; fl. middle of Oct. 1856. The lower 
leaves range up to 16 in. long by 63 in. broad. No. 3453. 
Huiiia.—In wooded places at the outskirts of the forest among 
tall herbage, behind Eme in the direction of Ivantala; a flowering 
branch collected in Dec. 1859, and a plant with root-leaves (ranging 
up to 18 in. long) apparently belonging to the same species in Feb. 
1860. No. 3450. 
3. I. Welwitschii O. Hoffm., /.c. 
Huiixa.—A tall perennial herb, 3 to 5 ft. high, before the develop- 
ment of the flowers resembling a Verbascum in habit ; radical leaves 
often 14 ft. high, tomentose as well as the strictly erect stem ; corolla 
yellow or yellowish, tubular, shortly 5-cleft, the lobes strictly erect ; 
anther-base acutely tailed ; style bulbous at the base, but little or 
scarcely exserted, the branches short, obtuse, often cohering ; achene 
somewhat pilose, without a callus at the base ; pappus uniseriate, 
setose ; the sete about 15, straight, often quasi-fasciculate at the base, 
In sparingly bushy pastures between Ferrio da Sola and Jau; fl. and 
fr. April and May and end of March 1860. No. 3452. 
4, I, huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 
A perennial hispid-scaberulous herb, of a yellowish-green colour ; 
stem straight, firm, sulcate-striate, subterete, not winged, pithy, 
24 to 4 ft. high, densely hairy at the base, corymbosely branched 
above at the inflorescence, hispid with multicellular hairs; lower 
leaves obovate or narrowly oval, rounded or obtusely narrowed 
and mucronulate at the apex, more or less narrowed or wedge- 
shaped at the petiolate or subpetiolate base, membranous, rather 
paler and less hispid beneath, denticulate, 8 to 10 in. long by 
24 to 3 in. broad, the radical leaves on petioles of 1 to 13 in. 
long; the intermediate leaves alternate sessile, more ovate and 
gradually smaller; the uppermost leaves alternate lanceolate 3 to 
1 in. long; capitula homogamous, many-flowered, discoid, sub- 
hemispherical, ? to 1 in. in diameter, on unequal pedicels ranging 
up to 4 in. long, arranged in an open rather few-headed terminal 
corymbose cyme bracteate (or leafy) especially at the divisions ; 
bracts like the leaves but smaller ; involucral scales 4- or 5-seriate, 
scabrid-puberulous at the back at least on the exposed parts, 
yellowish and rigid except the darker often revolute tips, the 
inner ones linear-lanceolate, acuminate, equalling the florets, 
