582 LXXI, COMPOSITA. [ Melanthera 
fl. and fr. July 1858. No. 3547. An apparently annual herb; stem 
suberect or frequently quasi-scandent among bushes; leaves bright 
green in the living state. In dry and also in damp thickets between 
Teba and Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. August 1858. No. 3548. 
BENGUELLA.—By thickets along the river Cotumbella on the side 
of the town of Benguella, sporadic ; fl. and fr. June 1859. No. 3550. 
MossAMEDES.—In gravelly bushy places along the banks of the 
river Bero, at Quipola; fl. and fr. June 1860. No. 3551. 
The above Nos, from the district of Loanda differ from the others, 
which must be considered the type of the species, by rather smaller 
capitula, also by less truncate achenes (No. 3548), or by the presence of 
a hairy ring at the top of the otherwise glabrous ovary in addition to 
the solitary arista (No. 3547) ; they perhaps belong to distinct species. 
4, M. scaberrima Hiern, sp. n. 
An undershrub, densely wooded at the base, sub-herbaceous 
above, rather rigid throughout, 2 to 4 ft. high; wood yellowish ; 
branches erect-patent, obtusely angular, sulcate, strigulose-scabrid, 
pallid; leaves opposite or ternate, ovate, acuminate or very acute 
at the apex, rather abruptly narrowed at the base, very scabrous 
with short stiff pale hairs arising from a papilliform base, deep 
green above, paler beneath, rigidly coriaceous, sharply serrate 
except near the apex and base, strongly nerved beneath, 14 to 23 in, 
long by 2 to 1} in. broad; petiole } to } in. long; capitula sub- 
hemispherical, } to 4 in. in diameter, on peduncles or pedicels 
ranging up to 3 in. long, arranged in a lax terminal bracteate or 
somewhat leafy terminal corymb about 5 in. in diameter; in- 
volucral bracts pauciseriate, imbricate, dry, coriaceous, rigid, 
strigose-hispid on the exposed part of the back, smooth and shining 
inside, about equally long, the outer ones lanceolate, the inner 
ones obovate-oblong with a lanceolate ciliate upper part, the 
innermost (or outer scales of the receptacle) cymbiform and 
embracing the outer florets ; flowers golden-yellow, smaller than 
those of M. Brownei; ray-florets female, about 2 in. long, 
uniseriate ; the ligule oval, } in. long, minutely tridentate at the 
apex, puberulous on the back, glabrous on the front, many- 
nerved ; disk-florets pluriseriate, + in. long, with a regular 
shortly 5-cleft corolla; anthers included, black with pale con- 
nectives and apical ovate appendages, obtuse and minutely 
sagittate at the base; style included and about equalling the 
anthers or shortly exserted, bifid, the branches pilose with narrow 
lanceolate appendages; achenes angular, somewhat compressed, 
narrowed towards the base, glabrous, truncate at the apex; 
pappus not coroniform, consisting of several (10 to 13) unequal, 
deciduous, rigid, minutely scabrid, ochroleucous ariste, some 
longer and some shorter than the achene; receptacle narrow, 
convex, furnished with scales similar to the inner involucral 
scales, some nearly flat and subtending, others folded and em- 
bracing the florets. 
Punco AnponGco.—In the drier thickets between Quilanga and 
Luxillo ; fl. Feb. 1857. No, 3556. 
