576 LXXI. COMPOSITZ. [ Sclerocarpus 
CAzENGO.—At Dalatanda ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3948. 
MossaMEDEs.—Strigulose. In bushy herbaceous places on the right 
bank of the river Bero, sporadic; fl. and fr. end of July 1859. 
No. 3939. An annual ascending branched herb; flowers yellow ; 
achenes trigonous, gibbous. At Cavalheiros ; fr. July 1859. Cou.. 
Carp. 687. 
44, OMPHALOPAPPUS O. Hofim. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 5, p. 234 (1890). 
1. 0. Newtoni O. Hoffm., /.c., and in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 177 
(1893), and xiii. p. 28 (1896). 
Huiiita.—An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with the habit of an 
Epilobium ; stems involucres and florets purple; capitula homo- 
gamous ; florets all tubular, 5-cleft ; anthers shortly cordate ; style 
compressed, its branches short, flat-concave on the inner face, acutely 
acuminate ; achenes acutely angular, at the truncate apex the angles 
running out into teeth, without any other pappus; receptacle pale- 
aceous. At the herbaceous banks of the Monino stream, amongst 
willows and species of Faurea; fl. and young fr. Feb. and April 
1860. No. 3440. 
45 WEDELIA Jacq. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 370. 
1, W. africana Pers. Syn. Pl. ii. p. 490 (1807); P. Beauv. FI. 
Ow. et Benin. ii. p. 19, t. 69 (1810); O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 
Afr, iii. p. 376. 
Seruneum africanum O, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. p. 365 (1891). 
Punco ANDONGO.—An erect, sparingly branched undershrub, 2 to 
4 ft. high ; leaves membranous, rather rigid, ranging up to 5} in. long 
by 12 in. broad; flowers yellow. In rocky places at the cataracts of 
streams, Calunda and Tunda Quilombo, arimo (cultivated field) of 
Senhor Salgado, sparingly ; fl. end of Jan. 1857. No. 3567. Capitula 
heterogamous ; flowers yellow ; ray-florets 2- or pluri-seriate, the inner 
row variously shaped, fertile ; central florets hermaphrodite, several 
of them barren; anthers turning black, ecaudate ; style-branches 
circinate, acuminate at the apex; young achenes of the ray-florets 
truncate, constricted below the coroniform apex, obscurely angular ; 
pappus coroniform, delicately fringed rather than toothed. At the 
Condo cataract of the river Cuanza, sporadic; fl. March 1857. 
No. 3568. 
Our specimens differ from the type of the species by shorter 
peduncles and more numerous capitula; they should be compared 
with W. angolensis Klatt in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, vii. 
p- 102 (1892), authentic specimens of which I have not seen. 
2. W. huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 
A wiry herb, 2 ft. high or more; stems striate, subglabrate, 
terete; branches slender, more or less scabrid, strigulose with 
short pallid hairs, the internodes often longer than the leaves, 
erect-patent ; leaves opposite, narrowly lanceolate, acute or 
pointed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the subsessile base, rather 
rigidly membranous, dull green and strigulose or scabrid above, 
paler strigose and minutely black-dotted beneath, erect-patent, 
1 to 4 in, long by } to 1 in. broad, distantly serrulate or sub- 
