Gongrothamnus | LXXI, COMPOSITE. 593 
uniseriate, sordid-yellowish, with a few outer short sete and 
numerous inner rigid hispidulous-scabrid sete + in. long ; receptacle 
small, convex, furnished with small short unequal tumid scales. 
MossaMEDES.—On rocky declivities between Pomangala and Quitibe, 
also at Caldari do Inferno ; fl. and fr. June 1860. No. 3270. 
HuvuiLia.—A small shrub, abundant but nearly everywhere without 
its leaves ; neither flowers nor leaves seen except on one plant. By 
thickets between Mumpulla and Nene, not uncommon. Oct. 1859. 
No. 3266. 
Bumpo.—A little shrub, at the time of gathering leafless and 
inelegant. By thickets near Bumbo ; fr. Oct. 1859. Apparently this 
species. No. 3264. 
With this genus, which has been reduced by O. Hoffmann in Engl. 
& Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv, 5 p. 126 (1889) to the section 
Decaneurum of Vernonia, should be carefully compared Autunesia 
O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot, x., p. 178 (1893); I have not seen an 
authentic specimen of the latter. 
The following two Nos. perhaps belong to different species of 
Gongrothamnus :— 
Huiiia.—A shrub, almost leafless at the time of gathering, with 
only one branch seen in fruit ; branchlet terete, pallid, felted with 
short thick whitish closely set hairs ; leaves alternate, the young ones 
crowded on the lateral shoots, oval, obtuse at both ends but apiculate 
at the apex, denticulate-repand, shortly petiolate, subcoriaceous, 
clothed on both faces with pallid closely-set short almost scaly hairs, 
about 1 in. long by 3 in. broad ; lateral veins 4 or 5 on each side of 
the midrib, starting at a wide angle ; infructescence on short lateral 
shoots, dense, hemispherical, 1 to 13 in. in diameter; capitula 
apparently homogamous, about 12-flowered, on unequal tomentellous 
pedicels ranging up to 3 in. long; involucral scales subtriseriate, 
oblong, obtuse, uninerved, flat or nearly so, somewhat hairy on the 
back, the innermost ones ? in. long, the outer ones successively shorter; 
receptacle small, at length somewhat convex, puberulous, not pale- 
aceous ; achenes narrowly obovoid-oblong, brownish, clothed with 
pale hairs, longitudinally 8- to 10-ribbed, } in. long, surmounted with a 
pallid setose pappus j in. long; the sete sub-biseriate, densely 
setulose, the outer few and short. Between Mumpulla and Nene. 
Oct. 1859, No. 4001. 
Huitia.—No notes. Infr. No. 3699. 
62, CRASSOCEPHALUM Moench, Meth. Pl. p. 516 (1794). 
Gynura Cass. in Dict. Sc. Nat. xxxiv. p. 391 (1825); Benth. & 
Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 445. 
1. C. cernuum Moench, J.c. ; 
Senecio rubens Jacq. Hort. Vindob. iil. p. 50, t. 98 (1777). 
S. cernuus L. f. Suppl. Pl. p. 370 (1781). Gynura cernua Benth. 
in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 437 (1849); O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 
Afr, ii. p. 402. 
Var. a. rubens. Flowers violet-rosy or rose-coloured. 
GoLtunco ALTO.—An annual, bright-green herb, 2 to 3 ft. high ; 
the peduncles of the capitula nodding at the apex. In damp 
herbaceous places by rivulets, mixed with the blue-flowered variety ; 
