574 LXXI, COMPOSITE. | Sphacophyllum. 
caudate at the base, the tails setiform ; style-branches rather short, 
just exserted, spreading, rather compressed, narrowly subspathu- 
late, rounded at the apex, not appendaged; achenes (not ripe) 
somewhat compressed, about 4-ribbed, oblong, 51; in. long, setulose ; 
pappus only represented by a ring of setule or minute subulate 
scales at the top of the achenes ; receptacle convex, bearing scales 
about equalling the involucral scales and embracing the florets. 
Huri1a.—On dry hills among short grasses, near Mumpulla, rather 
rare ; fl. and young fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3415. 
The following No. is very doubtfully placed under this species :— 
Hourta.—In rather dry pastures, flooded in summer, near Empalanca; 
after fl. and fr. end of Jan. 1860. No. 4064. 
38. ANISOPAPPUS Hook. & Arn.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 
ii, p. 339. 
1. A. angolensis O. Hoffm. in Henr. Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 176 
(1893) and xiii. p. 28 (1896). 
Hvitia.—Flowers yellowish. At Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. 
No. 3973. 
39. ODONTOSPERMUM Neck.; Benth.& Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 340. 
1. 0. Vogelii Webb in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 140 (1849); J. A. 
Schmidt, Beitr. F]. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 194 (1852). 
CAPE DE VERDE IsLANDS.—A widely cespitose shrublet, scarcely a 
foot high, with the habit of the alpine species of Artemisia. On the 
slopes of Monte Verde, in the island of St. Vincent ; withered fl. or 
corollas fallen or fragmentary, end of Aug. 1853. No. 3504. 
TripzE V.—HELIANTHOIDES. 
40. AMBROSIA Tournef., L., Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 354. 
1. A. senegalensis DC. Prodr. v. p. 525 (1836); O. & H. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 371. 
Prince’s Isranp,—A suffruticose herb, 14 to 2 ft. high, in habit 
resembling an Artemisia. In the drier sunny part of the island, not 
far from the sea, at Bahia de Santo Antonio, sparingly ; fl. Sept. 1853. 
No. 3952. 
41. SIGESBECKIA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 359 
(Siegesbeckia). 
1. S. orientalis L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 900 (1753); O. & H. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 372; O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. 
p. 28 (1896). 
Gotunco ALTo.—An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high. In moist places at 
the outskirts of forests near Menha-Lula ; fl. and fr. Feb. and April 
1856. No. 3945. A strictly erect branched herb. At the borders of 
forests along the banks of the river Delfmboa, in masses but in only 
a few places; fl. and fr. May 1855. No. 3946. An annual erect herb, 
1 to 33 ft. high ; branches opposite the leaves ; flowers small, yellow. 
Some unilabiate trifid florets were seen with obtuse deflexed lobes, and 
those of the disk 5-cleft not tubular. By the road towards Menha-Lula, 
