610 LXXI. COMPOSITA. | Pleiotawis 
TRIBE XI.—MUTISIACEA. 
75. PLEIOTAXIS Steetz; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 487. 
1. P. pulcherrima Steetz in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. p. 500, 
t. 51 (1863) ; O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop, Afr. iii. p. 440 ; O. Hoffm. 
in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. p. 536 (1893). 
Punco AnpdonGo.—A perennial herb; rootstock woody-tuberous, 
with long stout fibres ; leaves coriaceous, green, smooth and strongly 
shining above ; flowers of a deep blood-red colour, distantly resembling 
those of a Dianthus. In open wooded places near Mangue ; fl. and fr. 
March 1857. No. 3890, and Con. Carp. 674. 
2. P. rugosa O. Hoffm., /.c., p. 538, and in Bol. Soc. Brot, x. 
p. 183 (1893). 
GoLuNnGo ALTO.—A very beautiful perennial herb, 23 to nearly 4 ft. 
high ; rootstock thick, woody, many-headed ; stem erect, sometimes - 
simple and one-headed, in other cases branched and 3- to 5-headed ; 
leaves rigid, thick, not succulent, dry, deep green above, whitish 
tomentose or clothed with a silky wool beneath ; involucral scales 
red-purple ; florets brilliant, from orange to cinnabar-red. In thinly 
bushy and sparingly grassy places on the elevated slopes among the 
mountains of Sobato de Bumba and of Queta ; fl. and fr. 1855. Native 
name ‘‘ Haca,” which is apparently used in a collective sense, as, for 
instance, for Dicoma anomala. No. 3887. Suffruticose, fulgent ; 
habit that of a Centaurea. Mountains of Alto Queta; fr. March. 
Cot. Carp. 671. 
Var. auriculata (Welw.). 
Leaves conspicuously amplexicaul and auriculate. 
Punco ANDONGO.—An erect, sparingly branched, perennial herb ; 
leaves deeply rugulose, bright green without gloss above, hoary-silky 
beneath ; corolla bright scarlet, as are also the stigmas ; anther-tube 
yellowish. In the more elevated bushy part of the presidium ; fl. and 
fr. middle of Dec. 1856. Only one specimen in the herbarium. 
No. 3888. In 10 fully ripe capitula only 27 per cent. of the seeds were 
found good. Coz. Carp. 675. 
3. P. eximia O. Hoffm., l.c., p. 539. 
P. pulcherrima Klatt in Ann. Nat. Hofmus. Wien, vii. p. 104 
(1892); non Steetz. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—Flowers red-scarlet. Cornu. CARP. 672. 
Punco ANDONGO.—A handsome perennial herb, 2 ft. high, obsoletely 
branched ; leaves broad ; capitula large ; corolla orange-scarlet as are 
also the stigmas. At Muxillo Guinga in the presidium ; fl. and fr. 
middle of Dec. 1856. No. 3889. Fr. May 1857. Cou. Carp. 676. 
The following No. is also referred by O. Hoffmann to this 
species ; see Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 35 (1896) :-— 
GoLuNnGco ALTo.—A very beautiful shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, woody at. 
the base, patently branched ; capitulum homogamous ; florets scarlet, 
all hermaphrodite, equal ; corolla-tube long, the limb 5-cleft ; anthers 
caudate, the tails very delicate, capitulate, more or less cohering with 
the filaments, downy-pilose ; achenes linear-oblong very sparingly 
pilose, canaliculate ; pappus setose, equalling the corolla-tube ; re- 
ceptacle alveolate, the alveole more or less fringed or appendaged 
