Pleiotaxis| LXXI, COMPOSITZ. 611 
on the margin. On elevated parts of the mountains of Alto Queta, 
sparingly. No. 3893. Queta, fr.; Sept. 1855. Cox. Carp. 673. 
4, P, Autunesii O. Hoffm., /.c., p. 539, and in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 
p. 183 (1893). 
Hu1LuiA.—Flowers shining, blood-red. At the bushy drier outskirts 
of the forests of Monino ; fl. and fr. April and May 1860. No. 3892. 
In hilly herbaceous places by the lake Ivantala, rather rare ; fl. and fr. 
Feb. 1860. Apparently belonging to the species, although the achenes 
are glabrous or obsoletely hairy. No. 3891. A suffrutescent herb 
with rufous-fuscous pappus; fr. without fl. May 1860. Possibly a 
form of this species with glabrous achenes, but the achenes are shorter 
than in the above Nos. ; it should also be compared with Vernonia. 
Cott. CARP. 691. 
5. P. fulva Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect, soft tawny-tomentose undershrub, 2 or 3 ft. high or 
more; rootstock woody ; stems several, strict, leafy, simple below, 
branched above about the inflorescence; branches spreading, 
alternate; leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, alternate, spreading, 
pointed or apiculate at the apex, somewhat narrowed at the base, 
sessile or subsessile, coriaceous, rigid, pale-green rugulose with 
impressed venation and reticulation and thinly woolly above, 
tawny-woolly beneath, minutely crenulate-denticulate on the 
margin, 1} to 3 in. long by 4 to % in. broad; capitula oblong, 
homogamous, about { in. long, sessile or on short pedicels, in 
spikelike racemes terminal and in the upper axils, arranged in a 
flat-topped oblong somewhat leafy and bracteate terminal cyme 
6 to 9 in. long; bracts like the leaves but much smaller; involueral 
scales pluriseriate, more or less oblong, obtuse, free to the base, 
tawny-woolly on the back, glabrous and shining inside, coriaceous, 
the innermost ones linear-oblong about 3 in. long, the outer ones 
successively shorter, the outermost ones broadly ovate-oblong and 
short; flowers rosy-violet in colour; florets all hermaphrodite 
and tubular, comparatively few, about 2 in. long; corolla-tube 
slender, rather suddenly dilated near the apex, pentamerous ; 
lobes linear, } in. long; anthers exserted, acuminate at the apex, 
with fimbriate tails at the base; style-branches exserted, short, 
curving outwards, each with a minute broad very obtuse append- 
age ; achene (young) oblong angular, adpressedly pilose, } in. 
long; pappus nearly 4 in. long, setose, whitish or slightly straw- 
coloured, pauciseriate; the sete somewhat unequal in length, 
setulose ; receptacle papillose. 
Punco ANDONGO.—In the drier forests, in sunny spots between 
Calunda and Mangue ; fl. March 1857. No. 3274. 
There is in the Carpological Collection a capitulum in fruit, 
which I cannot assign to any of the previous species ; it should 
be compared with P. Newtoni O. Hoffm., l.c., p. 537, the type 
of which was obtained in Serra da Chella, but of which I have 
seen no authentic example; I append a description of Welwitsch’s 
specimen, including his note thereon :— 
