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TripE VI.—HELENIOID#. 
53. JAUMEA Pers. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 397. 
1. J. angolensis O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 178 (1893) 
& xiii. p. 32 (1896). 
J. compositarum Klatt. in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, vii. 
p. 103 (1892), non Benth. & Hook. f. 
Huitta.—A perennial herb; rhizome furnished with cylindrical 
tubercles ; stem solitary, erect, 14 to 3} ft. high, simple or branched 
in the upper part, the branches dichotomous or trichotomous ; leaves 
pellucid-punctate, curiously papillose ; flowers saffron-coloured. In 
marshy places among tall bushes along the Lopollo river, in company 
with Epilobium hirsutum L., a Rumex, a Typha, and species of Poly- 
gonum ; fi. and fr. April 1860. No. 3965. 
54. WELWITSCHIELLA O. Hoffm. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
iv. 5, p. 390 (1894). 
1. W. neriifolia O. Hoffm., /.c., p. 391, and in Bol. Soc. Brot. 
xiii. p. 31 (1896). 
Huitia.—A rough, strictly erect, perennial herb, with pellucid- 
punctate leaves and yellow flowers, In wooded meadows about the 
lake of Ivantala ; fl. and young fr. end of Feb, 1860. No. 3703. 
55. TAGETES Tournef., L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 411. 
1. T. patula L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 887 (1753). 
GoLunco ALTO.—In Sobato de Quilombo; fl. and fr. Jan. 1855. 
No. 3967. 
Punco ANDONGO.—In public streets in the presidium ; frequently 
wild and occurring almost everywhere by the villages both of the 
settlers and of the negroes, in all probability introduced long ago by 
the missionaries ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3966. 
TrisE VIJ.—ANTHEMIDES. 
56. ATHANASIA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 416. 
1. A. schistostephiodes Hiern, sp. n. 
A rigid perennial plant, 4 to 5 ft. high; stem strictly erect, 
leafy and unbranched for a considerable length, minutely puberu- 
lous or obsoletely felted, terete, branched near the apex; leaves 
alternate, deeply impari-pinnatifid, obovate in outline, rounded 
about the apex, narrowed to the shortly quasi-petiolate or sub- 
sessile base, subglabrous and minutely punctulate above, softly 
felted beneath with short curly almost glandular hairs, 1 to 2 in. 
long by 2 to 14 in. broad; the lateral lobes more or less oblong, 
obtuse, minutely subapiculate, undivided or some of them with an 
inferior lobule, not denticulate ; capitula subhemispherical, } to 
x in. in diameter, homogamous, discoid, many-flowered, on rather 
rigid bracteate pedicels ranging up to 1+ in. long, arranged 5 to 7 
together in somewhat tomentellous rather dense corymbose cymes 
# to 1} in. in diameter terminating the branches; bracts linear, 
acute, + to $ in. long; involucral scales imbricate, subtriseriate, 
linear-oval, $ to % in. long, obtuse, puberulous and somewhat 
thickened along the back, scarious and shortly incised or fringed 
on the upper margins, somewhat concave; flowers % to ;%; in. 
