Erythrocephalum) LXXI, COMPOSITA. 613 
spinulose-denticulate. In wooded copses not far from Mangue by the 
way towards Candumba, at an elevation of 3500 ft. ; fl. and fr. March 
1857. Colonial name ‘“Cravos do mato” (forest pink). The plant 
furnishes excellent tinder. No. 4000 partly. 
HuiLitaA.—In sandy thickets at the outskirts of rather open forests 
between Eme or Munchimo and the lake Ivantala, by no means 
plentiful ; fl. and fr. March and April 1860. No. 4000 partly. 
Hoffmann in the place first cited quoted in error No. “4022(?)”’ 
for this plant. 
75. DICOMA Cass.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 492. 
1. D. tomentosa Cass. in Bull. Soc. Philom. (1818), p.47; O. & 
H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 443 ; O. Hoffm. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
xv. p. 543 (1893). 
Loanpa.—In sandy mint-beds about Maianga do Povo; fl. and fr. 
Feb. 1858. No. 3622. 
IcoLo E Brenco and ZENZA DO GoLuNGO.—A herb, usually erect 
but in old age not uncommonly decumbent ; branches crowded, ascend- 
ing ; florets very fugacious. On a sandy clay soil, in places flooded in 
the rainy season, about the Lagoéas de Funda, plentiful ; also in Zenza 
do Golungo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1857. No. 3623. 
Bumpo.— In rough sunny situations near Bumbo, beginning of June 
1860 ; only one specimen collected. No. 3990. 
Houriia.—In sunny rocky places near Mumpulla ; very young fl.-bud 
Oct. 1859 ; only two plants seen, perhaps more plentiful in summer. 
Apparently this species. No, 3608. 
2. D. foliosa O. Hoffm., /.c., p. 543, and in Bull. Soc. Brot. x. 
. 184 (1893). 
MossamMEeDes.—At the calcareous sand-rocks along the banks of the 
river Bero near Garganta do Rio Bero ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 3617. 
A lovely shrublet, with numerous stems widely and densely spreading 
from its many-headed rootstock, scarcely a foot high, recalling some 
species of Elichrysa ; flowers tubular-campanulate, of a pleasant purple 
colour ; achenes remarkable on account of the structure of their 
pappus. In rocky places at the base of Montes negros, in company 
with Sarcocaulon mossamedense (Welw. herb. n. 1607); fl. and fr. 
10 Aug. 1859. No. 3618. An annual or gradually turning woody 
and biennial, with Gnaphalioid habit, the sole ornament of the very 
gloomy Black Mountains (Serra de Montes negros) ; fl.-bud 13 Aug. 
1859. No. 3619. 
3. D. elegans Welw. ex O. Hoffm., U.cc., p. 544, p. 184. 
HAvitita.—In thin bushy forests between Mumpulla and Nene ; fr. 
Oct. 1859. No. 3620. In open forests en a sandy soil near Nene, 
in company with species of Sterculiaceze, Leguminosz, and other 
Composite ; not yet in open fl. in May 1860. No. 3621. 
4, D. Welwitschii O. Hoffm., d/.cc., p. 544, p. 184. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—An erect branched herb, becoming woody at the 
base ; stems. numerous from a very hard woody-tuberous rootstock ; 
flowers of a pale straw-colour; style exserted after the opening of the 
flowers; stigma clavate, with two long cohering lobes. In sandy 
open woods near Mopopo and Sansamanda; fl. and fr. 1 May 1857. 
No. 3609. 
