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outer ones successively shorter, broader, densely ciliate and less 
acute or subulate, the outermost lanceolate- or ovate-oblong, sub- 
obtuse, about { in. long ; florets hermaphrodite, 2 in. long; corollas 
all narrowly tubular, yellow, very shortly 5-cleft, the tube + in. 
long, glabrous, the teeth deltoid; anthers shortly produced at 
the apex, the base tailed, the tails long, acutely fringed at the 
tips; the anthers of the marginal florets apparently sterile ; style 
cylindrical, glabrous, its branches erect, rather rigid, linear 
spathulate, rounded at the apex, sparingly puberulous ; achenes 
narrowly cylindrical, ;}, in. long, many-ribbed, scattered with 
thin hairs, basal areola oblique; pappus of a pale-straw colour, 
equalling the corolla, nearly uniseriate, the sete subequal, densely 
but very shortly setulose, the setule few about the base of the 
sete ; receptacle convex, not paleaceous, scattered with short 
acicular sete. 
lacerate-denticulate at the apex, yellow, about 2 in. long, the 
Hvitita.—In wooded meadows, among tall herbage, on the left 
bank of river near Catumba in the Lopollo country, at 5000 ft. 
elevation ; fl. and young fr. May 1860. No. 3938. 
This plant much resembles in habit Bojeria speciosa DC. 
5. I. cuanzensis. 
Porphyrostemma cuanzensis O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 
p-. 174 (1893). Vernonia cuanzensis Welw. ex O. Hoftm., J.c. 
Punco ANpoNGO.—An annual erect herb, more or less branched 
or nearly simple ; branches erect, rather strict or ascending, mono- 
cephalous ; flowers purplish. In sandy wooded places from Caghuy 
towards Sansamanda at the river Cuanza; fl. and fr. beginning of 
April 1857. No. 3300. 
The capitula are discoid and heterogamous, with the pappus uni- 
seriate straw-coloured and setose in both kinds of florets; the 
setze of the pappus are 5 in the case of the female florets and 7 or 8 
on the hermaphrodite florets. 
33. PEGOLETTIA Cass. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 334. 
1. P. senegalensis Cass. in Dict. Sc. Nat. xxxviii. p. 230 (1825); 
O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, p. 361; J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. 
Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 192 (1852). 
MossaAMEDES.—In sandy places on the sides of the mountains near 
Quipola ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 3934. An annual, erect herb, a 
foot high, with several branches towards the apex ; florets tubular, 
yellow ; achenes with pappus and many deep furrows. At the Rio 
do Sal along the base of Serra de Montes Negros ; fl. and fr. 13 Aug. 
1859. No. 3935. An annual herb about 8 in. high ; stem ascending, 
virgately branched towards the apex ; florets straw-coloured ; style- 
branches short, erect, lanceolate-subclavate ; achenes almost glabrous, 
marked with several ribs. In sandy bushy places at the mouth of the 
river Gir4ul ; fl. 19 July 1859. Only one specimen. No. 3936. 
CaPE DE VERDE IsLanps.—An annual herb, 3 in. high ; anther- 
base tailed. On the sandy hills of Praia de Mindello in the island of 
St. Vincent, sparingly ; only one specimen in fr. and a few fl. Jan. 
1861. A dwarfform. No. 3408. 
