584 LXXI, COMPOSITA., [ Melanthera 
Var. altior. 
A herb, 5 to 7 ft. high; stem quadrangular, weak, sparingly 
branched, with fibrous adventitious roots at the base; leaves less 
excavated at the base than in the type of the species, 
Punco Anponco..—By streams in the wooded parts of Sobato 
Cabanga, growing in masses ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3555. 
48. SPILANTHES Jacq. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 380. 
1. S. oleracea L. Syst. Nat., edit. xii, Veg. p. 534 (1767) 
(Spilanthus) ; Jacq. Hort, Vindob. (ii.) p. 63, t. 135 (1772). 
Verbesina Acmella L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 901 (1753). S. Acmella 
L. Syst. Veg., edit. Murr., p. 610 (1774) (Spilanthus) ; O. & H. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 384; O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. 
xiii. p. 31 (1896). Ceratocephalus Acmella O, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
PL i. p. 326 (1891). 
SrerrA LEONE.—A herb, 9 to 12 in. high; stem decumbent, rooting; 
branches slender, erect; capitula conical-ovoid, radiate; achenes 
black, truncate, with 2 setz. In damp meadows by marshes near 
Freetown ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 3969. 
BarrRA DO DANnpdE.—An annual or biennial prostrate herb ; stem 
creeping, rooting here and there at the nodes; leaves membranous, 
ovate, repand or almost entire; capitula axillary, pedunculate : 
involucral scales herbaceous-green ; disk-florets milk-white ; anthers 
turning black; achenes compressed, smooth on the sides, obovate, 
turning black, the edges each terminating in a rather long subulate 
arista, the margin sometimes ciliolate or with very unequal ariste. In 
only one damp grassy spot on the right bank of the river Dande, 
plentifully ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. A luxuriant form. No. 3970, and 
Cou. Carp. 664. 
Punco ANponGo.—An annual herb ; stem decumbent, rooting at 
the nodes; branches and branchlets ascending, nearly glabrous ; 
capitula pauciradiate, yellow but with the ligules paler and 
occasionally becoming nearly white; the ray-florets female, fertile, 
ligulate, narrowly obovate, obtuse ; the disk-florets tubular, 4-cleft, 
with deltoid spreading lobes ; achenes compressed-triquetrous, with 
two of the angles acute and spinulose-ciliate and the third (the inner 
one) obtuse or obsolete, truncate, with the angles terminating in short 
setulz or nearly bald ; involucral scales lanceolate from a broad base, 
almost as long as the capitulum or but little shorter, persistent. In 
only one spot by the Cazella rivulet near the town, plentifully ; fl. 
and fr. Nov. 1856. No. 3968. 
The three Nos. here referred to the above widely distributed species 
greatly vary ; they were each considered by Welwitsch to constitute 
new species. 
49, SYNEDRELLA Gaertn. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PLii. p. 383. 
1. 8. nodiflora Gaertn. Fruct. ii. p. 456, t. 171, f£. 7 (1791); 
O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 386. 
Srerra Leone.—Fr. Sept. 1853. No. 3983. 
50. COREOPSIS L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 385. 
1. C. Steppia Steetz in Peters, Mossam. Bot. ii. p. 496 (1863); 
O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 388. 
