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diameter ; pedicels slender, dilated at the apex, ranging up to 
1i in. long; branches of the inflorescence bracteate ; bracts 
lanceolate or subulate, entire, 51; to } in. long; involucral scales 
uniseriate, equal, about 20, + in. long, sublinear, narrowed at the 
apex to a reddish scarious-tipped point, scarious on the imbricating 
lateral margins, erect in flower, reflexed after the fall of the fruit ; 
flowers lilac or of a pale whitish-violet colour, quickly turning 
yellowish, numerous, hermaphrodite, tubular, about ;%, in. long ; 
corolla membranous, } in. long, very narrow about the middle, 
slightly dilated near the base, funnel-shaped in the upper half, 
shortly 5-lobed, the lobes triangular-ovate, uninerved, obtuse ; 
anthers clear bright blue, half exserted, shortly appendaged at 
the apex, subobtuse and exappendiculate at the base but with 
the filaments abruptly thickened near their apices ; style-branches 
narrow, puberulous-stigmatose, exappendiculate, truncate-dilated 
at the apex, equalling the corolla; achenes subterete, dusky when 
ripe, tapering a little from the middle towards each end, 10-ribbed, 
setulose with short thick whitish hairs between the ribs, ;4; in. 
long, with a narrow whitish cartilaginous ring round the apex from 
which arises the copious white silky subuniseriate setose pappus ; 
the sete very slender, very delicately scabrid (as seen under a 
lens), + in. long; receptacle flat, about ;', in. in diameter, naked. 
Huiiia.—In marshy places; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3677. In 
damp meadows (varzeas) at the river Cacolovar, on the right-hand 
side of the road leading from Ivantila to Quilengues ; fl. and fr. Feb. 
1860. No. 3678. 
This somewhat resembles S. purpwreus L., but the leaves are less 
deeply divided and the achenes setulose ; it is also rather like S. er/spus 
Thunb, 
5. §. latifolius DC. Prodr. vi. p. 387 (1837); Harv., lc., p. 377. 
S. bupleuroides DC., lic.; O. & H., l.c., p. 414. 
HviLia.—-An erect, glaucescent, apparently perennial herb, with 
yellow flowers. In the drier bushy pastures near Fer14o da Sola, not 
plentiful ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3673. At Lopollo ; fl. Dec. 1859. 
No. 3674. 
6. S. lasiorhizus DC., J.c.; O. & H., Lc., p. 415. 
Cineraria coronata Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap. pars posterior, p. 154 
(1800). S. coronatus Harv., lc., p. 369. 
Huitta.—A herb with the form of a Cineraria ; stems several, 
erect ; ligule of the ray-florets bright golden-yellow, disk-florets paler. 
In the moist meadows of Mumpulla, in company with Scabiosa 
Columbaria L. (Welw. Herb. No. 520) ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3685. 
Flowers yellow. In the drier bushy pastures about Lopollo towards 
the east, in company with Thymeleacez and Santalacez ; fl. and fr. 
Noy. and Dec. 1859. A rather hairy form of the species. No. 3686. 
A perennial herb, 1 to 11 ft. high ; stem firm, erect ; flowers corymbose, 
yellow. Lopollo; fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan, 1860. Apparently this 
species, CoLu. CARP. 665. 
7. &. pentecostus Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect, pale green, conspicuous herb, 3 to 5 ft. high; root- 
