578 LXXI. COMPOSITA. [ Wedelia 
Punco Anponco.—In thickets very frequently flooded, near 
Candumba ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 3557. 
46. ASPILIA Thouars ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. ii. p. 371. 
1. A. Welwitschii O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 29 (1896). 
Hvuitita.—Rootstock thick, hard-woody; stems several, rigid, 
straight or ascending ; flowers golden-yellow, nearly orange or deep 
orange in colour; achenes subcompressed, tetragonal, pubescent on 
the upper part ; pappus either bi-aristate or bidentate. In pastures. 
amidst tall bushes on the right bank of the Lopollo stream, fl. and fr. 
Oct. and Noy. 1859 and again in Jan. 1860 ; also in hilly places on a 
rich soil covered with acacia shrubs, on the right bank of the Lopollo: 
stream, plentiful, fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3559. 
Var. serrata. 
Leaves more or less serrate, at least on the upper half. 
Huiiia.—In thickets near Mumpulla ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3560. 
2. A. bipartita O. Hoffm., l.c., p. 30. 
Punco ANDONGO.—A perennial herb ; primary stem rooting below ; 
capitula heterogamous, yellow ; involucral scales few, rigidly coriaceous, 
imbricate, biseriate ; ray-florets ligulate, neuter, bifid to the middle, 
with obtuse lobes ; disk-florets each sheathed with a scarious bract, 
5-cleft, with reflexed lobes and somewhat pilose tube ; anthers. 
delicately caudiculate or shortly hastate-aristate at the base, far 
exserted ; style glabrous, the branches far exserted, circinate, above 
the middle: flattened, somewhat pilose inside not outside, acutely 
pointed at the apex ; achenes few, thickened on the margin, quad-- 
rangular, truncate, glabrous, sometimes tuberculate, with the angles 
cartilaginous-costate ; pappus coroniform in the centre of the achene, 
paleaceous. In damp sandy places between Condo and Quisondo ; 
fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 3564. 
3. A. trichodesmoides O. Hoffm., /.c., p. 28. 
Punco AnpDoNGO,—A herb with the habit of an Echiwm, Lycopsis, or 
Cerianthe ; root tuberous-woody, perennial ; stems numerous, ascending,. 
1 to 2 ft. high; flowers from lilac to purple; achenes precisely 
similar to those of A. bipartita O. Hoffm. (Welw. Herb. no. 3564). 
In rocky bushy places near Muta-Lucala, only in one spot ; fl. and fr. 
beginning of March 1857. No. 3565. 
4, A. helianthoides O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 381. 
GoLunco ALTo.—In swampy places near Camilungo; without 
either fil. or fr, March 1856. Nos. 3972 and 3972b. For want of 
sufficient material the determination is doubtful. 
5, A. fontinalis Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect rigid herb or undershrub, 1 to 2 ft. high; stems. 
striate, simple or nearly so, nearly smooth below, above leafy, 
obtusely angular, more or less hispid-scabrid with pale hairs 
arising from a papilliform base; leaves opposite, ovate or sub- 
elliptical, not acuminate, pointed at the apex, obtuse or somewhat 
wedge-shaped at the subsessile or very shortly petiolate base, 
rigidly membranous, dull green, scabrid-strigulose above, strigose- 
hispid and scarcely paler beneath, distantly serrulate, erect-patent, 
indistinctly triplinerved at or near the base, 1# to 25 in. by $ to 
