Crocodilodes | LXXI, COMPOSITH, 609 
Huitta.—A plant 4 to 5 ft. high, branched towards the apex, 
apparently perennial ; flowers yellow. At Ferrio da Sola towards 
Catumba ; fl. and fr. Feb. and May 1860. No. 3711. The leaves 
range up to 4 in. long. 
4, C. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect herb, 3 to 4 ft. high and more, branched near the top, 
apparently annual; stem strict, purplish, sulcate-striate, sub- 
terete, pithy, more or less thinly clothed as well as the short 
ascending branches, with a soft fugitive white floccose cotton, leafy 
throughout ; leaves alternate, narrowly elliptical, bristle-pointed 
at the apex, cuneate or the upper ones obtuse at the sessile or 
subsessile base, green scabrid and scattered above with short 
close-lying pimple-based rigid hairs, whitish felted beneath, not 
lobed, 2 to 5 in. long by § to 1 in. broad, not decurrent, the 
margin biserrulate with all the teeth small and terminating in 
setaceous straight bristles ; capitula hemispherical, heterogamous, 
radiate, 14 to 24 in. in diameter, usually subgeminate on un- 
equal short whitish-felted pedicels of 3 to 1 in. long, arranged 
in several-headed corymbose terminal cymes of about 4 to 6 in. 
in diameter ; common peduncle 3 to 6 in long; involucral scales 
pluriseriate, spinous-toothed with the prickles patent and glabrous. 
thinly white-felted on the back, connate near the base; the outer 
ones subfoliaceous, linear-lanceolate or including the nearly 
straight rigid acute prickles ovate in outline, about 2 in. long; 
flowers of a straw-yellow colour; ray-florets uniseriate, neuter, 
about an inch long, styleless; the ligule linear, 5-nerved; the 
ovary rudimentary, surmounted by a few unequal fringed palee ; 
disk-florets multiseriate, hermaphrodite, fertile, about 4 in. long, 
tubular; the corolla 5-fid, with linear-oblong lobes, the lobes 
thickened along the valvate margins ; the anthers nearly equalling 
the corolla, shortly appendaged at the apex, shortly caudate at 
the base; style branches rather long, exserted, somewhat pointed, 
minutely papillose, not appendaged ; ovary densely clothed with 
whitish silky hairs, embedded in the pits of the fleshy receptacle, 
rather short ; the pits of the receptacle toothed on the margin 
with unequal paleaceous acute teeth; pappus paleaceous; the 
palez about 20, biseriate, oblanceolate ;/, in. long, ciliolate-fringed, 
obtuse, silky-setulose on the back, subequal. 
Puneo ANDONGO.—In sandy thickets to the west of the presidium 
and near Quitage, not uncommon ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 3713. 
This species is nearly related to C. Spekeana (Oliv.) ; it has been 
collected by Capello, n. 19, in the interior of Angola, where the local 
name is “ Guicualo”’; it differs from C. angolensis (O. Hoffm.) by its 
herbaceous annual habit. 
5. C. gracilis, 
Berkheya gracilis O. Hoffm., l.c., p. 35. 
Huitta.—Flowers sulphur-coloured. In sunny rocky mountainous 
coax Morro de Lopollo, plentiful ; fl. and fr. end of April 1860. 
No. 3710. 
