Aspilia] LXXI. COMPOSITE, 579 
11 in. broad; petioles ranging up to } in. long, hirsute-hispid ; 
capitula campanulate, about 4 in. long, heterogamous, radiate, 
solitary, terminal and sub-terminal ; peduncles short, ranging up 
to ? in. long, hirsute-hispid ; involucral scales sub-biseriate, oblong, 
free to the base; the outer ones hispid on the back, about 5, 
coriaceous-foliaceous, obtusely pointed at the apex, nearly flat, 
about + in. long; the inner ones rigid, dry, about 4 in. long, 
glabrous below, terminated at the apex with an ovate pointed 
ciliate appendage, nearly flat or somewhat convex; scales of the 
receptacle ovate-oblong, folded, embracing the florets, } to ¥ in. 
long; flowers sulphur-yellow; ray-florets uniseriate, ligulate, 
about 2 in. long, neuter; the lamina about +} in. long, obovate, 
tridentate at the tip, spreading; the ovary compressed, linear, 
slightly hairy, } in. long, surmounted with a coroniform shortly 
bristly pappus; disk-florets nearly 4 in. long, hermaphrodite, the 
corolla tubular, shortly lobed; anthers minutely sagittate at the 
base ; style-branches short, rather flattened, broadly rounded at 
the apex, hairy, not appendaged; ovary + in. long, somewhat 
compressed, linear, hairy-setose; pappus cupuliform, shallow, 
broader than the top of the ovary, persistent, exaristate, scattered 
with a few whitish sete, fimbriate at the apex with very short 
slender teeth ; achenes oblong, obtusely angular-compressed, about 
+ in. long, scattered with short hairs. 
Punco ANDONGO.—In the Panda forest near Condo, close to the 
cataract of the river Cuanza ; fl. and fr. 15 March 1857. No. 3558. 
6. A. Kotschyi Benth. & Hook. f. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xxix. p. 98 (1873); O. & H., ie.; O. Hoffm., Lec. p. 30. 
GoLtunco ALTo,—An annual herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, resembling a 
Lycopsis in habit and in the colour of the atro-purpureous flowers. 
In level fields and amongst thickets in rather barren places near Bango, 
Sange, Cambondo, etc. ; fl. and fr. from May to July 1855. No. 3561. 
In reed-beds (capinaes) at the outskirts of primitive forest of 
Quisucula, abundant; fl. and ripe fr. April 1856. No. 3562. In 
rather dry hilly places by the river Delamboa: fl. and fr. May 1856. 
No. 3563. An annual or biennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; flowers like 
those of a Zinnia, but black-purple velvety. About Sange and 
Quisucula ; fr. May 1856. Cox. Carp. 666. 
47. MELANTHERA Rohr; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 377. 
1. M. Brownei Schultz Bip. in Flora, 1844, p. 673; O. & H. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 382; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 208 (1884). 
Buphthalmum scandens Schum. & Thonn. in Danske Vidensk. 
Selsk. iv. p. 166 (1829). Lipotriche Brownet DC. Prodr. v. p. 544 
(1836). Amellusscandens O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. p. 306 (1891). 
GoLunco ALTo.—A subscandent herb, 3 to 4 ft. high; flowers 
large, deep-yellow, with the florets of the disk paler ; ray-florets 
flattened, quite patent, nerved, emarginate-denticulate at the apex ; 
achenes shortly obcuneate, more or less compressed, obtusely 3- or 
4-angular, smooth ; pappus consisting of 7 to 9 unequally long very 
brittle bristles. In elevated thickets among the Queta mountains 
above N-delle, in company with Napoleonea imperialis P. Beauv. ; fl. 
