Calostephane| LXXI. COMPOSITH. 569 
34. CALOSTEPHANE Benth. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 335. 
1. C. divaricata Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xii. p. 11, t. 1111 
(1872); O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 363. 
Geigeria calendulacea Welw. ex O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. 
xiii. p. 26 (1896). 
MossaMEDES.—An annual or biennial herb, with the aspect of the 
Calendulas, 14 to 2 ft. high, erect or decumbent at the base, dichoto- 
mously much-branched ; stem winged ; branches slender, spreading ; 
leaves pellucid-punctate, decurrent ; flowers yellow ; capitula hetero- 
gamous ; ray-florets few, female, uniseriate, ligulate, 3- or 4-toothed ; 
disk- florets hermaphrodite, tubular, 5-lobed, the tube glandular-papillose 
and obconical below ; anthers tailed ; receptacle not paleaceous ; achenes 
obcuneate, angular, hispidulous, truncate ; pappus biseriate, the 5 
outer palez short flabelliform and very obtuse, the 5 inner narrower 
and terminated with a long rough seta after the fashion of the fruit 
of Scabiosa ; style-branches lanceolate, compressed. On the sands 
of the estuary along the banks of the river Bero near the town; fl. 
and fr. July 1859. Seen also at the river Caroca. No. 3441. 
35. MOLLERA O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 174 (1893). 
1. M. angolensis O. Hoffm, /.c. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—A slender annual herb; flowers yellow, with 
spreading rays. In sandy wooded places between Quisonde and Condo ; 
fl. March 1857. No. 3984. 
2. M. punctulata Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect, scabrid, grey-green, somewhat slender, annual herb, 
7 to 11 in. high, simple below, corymbosely branched above ; stem 
and branches narrowly winged by the decurrence of the leaves, 
moderately leafy throughout ; leaves alternate or the lower ones 
opposite, oblanceolate or sublinear, somewhat narrowed towards 
the sessile decurrent base, mostly obtuse at the apex, } to 1] in. 
long, scattered with small black dots, the margins cartilaginous- 
revolute, dentate along the upper half; capitula heterogamous, 
radiate, singly terminating the stem and branches, erect, on 
peduncles ranging up to about ? in. long; flowers yellow; involucre 
hemispherical, about 7 in. in diameter, its scales sub-biseriate, 
subequal, free to the base, linear, acute, about 12, hispid and 
ciliate, minutely glandular ; florets of the ray female, fertile, the 
ligule oblong, % in. long; florets of the disc shorter, numerous, 
hermaphrodite, fertile, tubular ; corolla-lobes acute; anther-base 
narrowly caudate; ovary glandular, longitudinally ribbed; 
pappus 0. 
Huv1tta.—In moist pastures amongst low bushes, near Lopollo ; 
fl. end of March 1860. No. 3976. 
3. M. huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect undershrub, 13 ft. high ; stemssubterete and nodulose 
below with the numerous scars of fallen leaves, puberulous and 
narrowly winged above; leaves alternate, branches numerous, 
puberulous, striate, leafy, linear or oblanceolate-linear, obtusely 
pointed at the apex, narrowed attenuated or spathulate towards 
