586 LXXI. COMPOSITE. [Coreopsis 
caudate ; filaments thickened near the apex up to the insertion 
of the anthers; style bulbous at the base, its branches towards 
their exserted tips thickened, pilosulous, and surmounted by 
cylindrical narrower tender rather fleshy tolerably long ap- 
pendages; achenes none winged but flatly compressed, black, 
subemarginate at the apex, surmounted in the hollowed centre 
by a dense hairy ring of setulz, those of the ray without and 
those of the disk with two ariste continuous with the densely 
ciliate-hispidulous edges; the whole achene about +4 in. long, 
elongate, linear-oblong, slightly or scarcely widened above the 
middle, longitudinally striate, marked on one side with a 
prominent nerve or angle; the aristz pallid, about 4, in. long, 
erect-patent, beset with erect-setulz at the base, glabrous above, 
subulate, persistent ; receptacle broad, somewhat convex, furnished 
with lanceolate- or linear-oblong obtuse dry erect flat scales, - 
which subtend the disk-florets, measure } to 2 in. long, have 
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scarious edges, and are marked with 3 to 5 parallel nerves. 
AMBACA.—Leaves coriaceous. By thickets from N-gombe in the 
direction of Puri-Cacarambola, not abundant; not yet in full fl. 
Oct. 1856. No. 3537. 
Punco AnponGco.—In thickets near Caghuy et Quilanga; fl. Jan. 
1857. No. 3538. Plant dried with great difficulty. In sunny 
thickets and in wooded places around and within the fortress, 
abundant ; fl. March 1857; also near Quitage at the river Cuige, not 
yet fl. March 1857. No. 3535. In open wooded situations, especially 
near Sansamanda, plentiful ; fl. 1 May 1857. No. 3536. 
Nearly related to C. kilimandscharica O. Hoffm. in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. xx. p. 234 (1894). 
The following plant perhaps belongs to C. speciosa, though the 
capitula are smaller with more hairy involucres, the foliage of 
the flowering shoots is more densely clothed beneath with short 
hairs, and the achenes are shorter :— 
AmBaca.—A herb, 2 to 3 ft. high ; ligules of the ray-florets long, 
brilliant, deep yellow. At the left bank of the river Caringa, very 
rare ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3272, partly. 
3. C. ambacensis Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect, loosely branched herb, 2 ft. high or more; stem and 
branches more or less angular and furrowed, nearly glabrate 
below, striate and puberulous above with thick weak pallid hairs ; 
leaves opposite or the upper ones sometimes alternate, much 
divided, ovate in outline, about 24 in. long by 13 in. broad or 
rather larger, more or less pubescent with narrow or small 
ultimate segments; the lobes tipped with cartilaginous not 
setaceous points; the common petiole short, dilated and clasping 
at the base; capitula sub-hemispherical, } to $ in. long. solitary, 
terminating the stem and branches, on unequal peduncles ranging 
up to several inches, together forming open somewhat leafy 
terminal cymes; involucral scales pauciseriate, oval or oblong, 
obtuse, the outer ones beset with thick tapering pallid hairs on 
the back; receptacle convex, furnished with narrowly oblong 
