Crassocephalum | LXXI. COMPOSITA, 595 
Var. ¢ crepidoides. A perennial or annual, bright green 
herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, with somewhat nodding saffron- or orange- 
coloured flowers which become rose-coloured in course of drying. 
GoLtunco ALTo.—Annual. In damp palm-groves near N-delle; fl. 
and fr. Dec. 1855: No. 3688. Perennial. By moist thickets in 
Sobato de Bumba, not plentiful; fl.and fr. end of Dec. 1855. No. 3687. 
3. C. miniatum. 
Gynura miniata Welw. Apont. p. 586. n. 29; O. & H., dc. 
AmpBaca.—Root thick, tuberous, perennial ; leaves (only the lower 
ones developed at the time) strongly musk-scented. At Puri- 
Cacarambola ; without either fl. or fr. Oct. 1856. No. 3596. 
Punco ANDONGO.—Flowers of a deep orange-colour. By the 
waterfall at Calundo near Caghuy ; fl. and fr. 14 Dec. 1856. No. 3595. 
4, C. scandens. 
Gynura scandens O, Hoftm. in Engl. Pf. Ost Afr., C,p. 416 (1895). 
Gotunco Atto.—A climbing suffruticose herb, with flowers of a 
pallid orange-colour ; fl. June 1855. No. 3697. 
Our specimens differ slightly from the type of the species by their 
rather smaller leaves with a more deltoid apiculate apex and with the 
base somewhat excavated, and by larger capitula containing about 
26 florets. 
63. EMILIA Cass. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 445. 
1, E. purpurea Cass. in Dict. Sc. Nat. xxxiv. p. 393 (1825). 
Cacalia sonchifolia L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 835 (1753), #. sonchi- 
folia DC. Prodr. vi. p. 302 (1837) ; O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 
iii. p. 405. 
SrERRA LEONE.—In mountainous situations between Freetown and 
the mountain ridge, among scattered herbs; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. 
No. 3579. 
PRINCE’s ISLAND.—An annual herb, with the habit of a Sonchus 
and with violet-coloured flowers. In damp sunny forests ; fl. Sept. 
1853. No. 3583. 
Huriuia.—Inflorescence lax, with slender pedicels and yellow 
flowers. In Morro de Lopollo; fl. Feb. 1863. Perhaps a variety of 
this species, No. 3580. 
This is difficult to distinguish from the next species. 
2. E. flammea Cass. in Dict. Sc. Nat. xiv. p. 406 (1819). 
Cacalia sagittata Vahl, Symb. Bot. iii. p. 91 (1794). 2. sagittata 
DC., ic. ; O. & H., Le. p. 405. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—In elevated places at the outskirts of the forest 
above the Delamboa; fl. and fr. April 1856. No. 3575. About 
Sange ; fl. and fr. No. 3576. A herb, 2 to 34 ft. high, less glaucous 
and with much longer capitula than in some forms ; stem weak, sub- 
erect, sparingly branched ; flowers with a deep saffron-orange colour. 
In the more elevated mountainous parts of Sobato Quilombo-Quiaca- 
tubia in dense thickets about 2000 ft. altitude; also among the 
mountains of Sobato de Bumba Andala, but rather rare; fl, and fr. 
Feb and Oct. 1855. No. 3577. In the sandy forests of N-delle, not 
yet in open flower, Jan. 1855. Apparently this species. No. 3928. 
HuiLia.—Flowers orange-scarlet. In the wooded pastures of the 
Monino, among tall herbs, sporadic; fl. April 1860. No. 3578. 
