614 LXXI, COMPOSITA. [ Dicoma 
5. D. anomala Sond. in Linnea xxiii, p, 71 (1850) (anomalum) ; 
O. & H., lc. p. 443. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—Habit of a Carlina; rhizome very thick, 2 to 3 in. 
in diameter, spongy; stems prostrate; florets purplish, much shorter 
than the involucre, On the northern sunny slopes of the mountains 
of Alto Queta; fi. and fr. beginning of June 1855. No. 3607. Root- 
stock woody, thick, many-headed ; stems prostrate-ascending. On the 
dry more elevated declivities of the mountains of the central Queta, 
Carengue ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1855. No. 3613. On the rocky slopes of 
Alta Queta among short grass; fl. and fr. June 1856. No. 3614. 
Native name “ Haca,” which is also used in this district for Pleiotazis 
rugosa: see Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 209 (1884). 
Var. karaguensis O. & H., /.c.; O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. 
x. p. 185 (1893). D. karaguensis Oliv. in Trans, Linn. Soc. xxix. 
p. 103, t. 70 (1873). 
HviLia.—In open gravelly pastures near Mumpulla; fl. and fr. 
Oct. 1859. No. 3610. A rather rigid herb; stems numerous; leaves 
spreading, green above, whitish beneath; florets rosy, 5-cleft, with 
erect patent-lobes revolute at the tips. In sandy thickets near the 
Monino ; fl. Feb. 1860. No. 3611. A perennial herb, with the habit 
of the caulescent Carline, a foot high ; rootstock thick, woody, several- 
headed; stems 2 to 5, erect; branches corymbose ; capitula terminal ; 
florets tubular, purple ; corolla-lobes linear, circinate-revolute ; anthers 
paleaceous; style rather thick, straight, cylindrical, simple, scarcely 
bifid; stigma capitate, scarcely or slightly bifid or emarginate at the 
apex ; receptacle flat, deeply alveolate. In hilly bushy sandy places 
near Lopollo, plentiful; fl. and fr. March 1860. No. 3612. 
6. D. plantaginifolia O. Hoffm. in Engl., /.c., p. 546. 
Punco ANDONGO.—A perennial herb; radical leaves adpressed to 
the ground, the flowers unfortunately not yet developed, nor even the 
stem. In bushy pastures at the banks of the river Cuanza, sparingly ; 
in very young fl.-bud March 1857. Apparently this species, of which 
I have not seen a type specimen. No. 3615. 
7. D, nana Welw. ms. in herb. 
A dwarf perennial rigid plant, about 2 in. high; rootstock 
somewhat woody and premorse, giving off numerous cord-like 
fibres, simple or divided at the apex; stem very abbreviated, less 
than | in. long, suffrutescent, simple and erect or divided with 
very short diverging branches, clothed with the clasping leaf- 
bases or their remains; leaves crowded, obovate, shortly cuspidate 
or rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped towards the quasi-petiolate 
clasping base, rigidly subherbaceous, subentire, minutely toothed, 
3- or 5-nerved at or near the base and 3-nerved rather above the 
base, closely reticulate greenish subglabrous and minutely glan- 
dular-scaly above, whitish with appressedly cottony felt beneath, 
13 to 3 in. long by 4 to 12 in. broad, more or less spreading ; 
capitula broadly campanulate, 14 in. long, many-flowered, appa- 
rently homogamous, terminal or subterminal and axillary or 
lateral, sessile, solitary or approximated ; involucre 1 to 1} in. long ; 
involucral scales multiseriate, imbricate, dryly coriaceous, rigid, 
with subscarious lateral margins, glabrous, shining, pungent at 
