Sigesbeckia| LXXI. COMPOSITA, 575 
at the edges of thickets and forests, sporadic ; fl. and fr. July 1855. 
The plant is abundant in the interior of western Africa. No. 3947. 
CazENGO.—An ashy annual herb, 1 to 2} ft. high; stem erect ; 
flowers small, yellowish ; florets labiate trifid ; achenes of the ray-florets 
glandular. At Caculo; fr. June 1855. Cot. Carp. 686. 
42. ECLIPTA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 361. 
1. E. erecta L. Mant. ii. p. 286 (1771). 
Verbesina alba L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 902 (1753). V. prostrata L. 
Sp. Pl, dc. #. punctata L. Mant., lc. ££. alba Hassk. Pl. Jav. 
Rar. p. 528 (1848); O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 373; 
O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 28 (1896). eliptica alba 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. p. 334 (1891). 
SrerRA LEONE.—In mountainous pastures about Freetown ; fl. and 
young fr. Sept. 1853. No. 3971. 
BarkRA DO BENGoO.—An erect, much branched, annual or biennial 
herb, with white flowers. In swampy places near Panda, at the river 
Bengo ; fr. Sept. 1857. Cou. Carp. 680. 
Loanpa.—An annual, much branched herb, with whitish capitula ; 
in drying-up marshes it occasionally becomes biennial or even persists 
for three years. By marshes about Imbondeiro dos Lobos and near 
Teba, plentiful ; fl. and fr. June 1858, No. 3931. 
Gotunco ALTo.—About marshes near Undella ; fl. andfr. Dec. 1855 
No. 3982. 
Prince's IsLtanD.—By streams near Bahia de S. Antonio ; fl. and fr. 
Sept. 1853. No. 3930. 
Var. macrophylla (Welw. ms. in Herb.). 
An erect, adpressedly hispidulous herb, 2 to 3 ft. high ; leaves 
elliptical, ranging up to 5 in. long by 13 in. broad or more, 2 or 3 
times as long as the peduncles, distantly and coarsely dentate- 
serrate; flowers white; achenes nearly bald except the apical 
areola, obtusely tuberculate-verrucose. 
Gotunco ALTo.—In damp parts of Quilombo-Quiacatubia ; fl. and fr. 
Feb. 1855. Only one specimen. No. 3929. 
43, SCLEROCARPUS Jacq.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 364. 
1. S. africanus Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. i. p. 17, t. 176 (1781—1786) ; 
O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 374; O. Hoffm. in Bol. 
Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 28 (1896). 
Gotunco ALTO.—A herb, 23 to 4 ft. high ; stem straight, purplish, 
roughly pilose, branched upwards; flowers yellow, axillary. In 
secondary thickets by the Ambaca road; fl. and fr. Nov, 1855. 
No. 3940. Flowers yellowish. At the outskirts of forests near the 
river Cate ; fl. and fr. March 1856. No. 3942. An annual, erect, 
branched herb, 1 to 2 or even up to 4 ft. high; leaves not always 
alternate ; capitula heterogamous ; flowers yellow ; ligules of the ray- 
florets few, 3 or 4, with a slender tube and an ovate-rounded or 
obcordate lamina more or less deeply cleft at the apex ; disk-florets 
5-cleft, stamens and style included. In places neglected after culti- 
vation, near Sange ; fl. and fr. June 1856. No. 3941. Canescent ; 
stem branched ; flowers inconspicuous, small, almost hidden by the 
floral leaves. At the outskirts of forests near the river Cate ; fr. 
March 1856. Co... Carp. 684. 
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