Dicoma| LXXI. COMPOSITE. 615 
the apex, lanceolate or oblong-linear, erect or adpressed, the outer 
short, the inner successively longer, some 2 in. long; corolla 
tubular, deeply 5-lobed; the lobes sublinear, narrowed gradually 
to the scarcely acute apex; anthers rather shorter than the 
corolla-lobes, with lanceolate appendages at the apex and long 
narrow fringed ciliate acute tails at the base; style included, sub- 
clavate, notched at the apex; achenes densely pilose-setulose, 
iin. long; pappus pluriseriate, wholly setose, } to 2 in. long; 
the setze whitish, unequally long, plumose. 
Huriitia.—In the drier pastures about Lopollo and Mumpulla, 
abundant; not yet in fl. Oct. 1859; one specimen in fl. and fr. May 
1860. No. 3616. 
76. PERDICIUM L. Diss. Pl. Rar. Afr. p. 22, n. 72 (Dec. 1760). 
Gerbera Gronov. ex L. Cor. Gen. Pl. p. 16 (1737); Benth. & 
Hook, f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 497. Gerberia Cass. in Bull, Soc. Philom. 
1817, p. 34 (Feb.). 
1. P. piloselloides. 
Arnica piloselloides L., l.c., p. 22, n. 73. Gerberia piloselloides 
Cass. in Dict. Sc. Nat. xviii. p. 461 (1820); O. & H. in Oliv. FI. 
Trop. Afr. iii. p. 445 (Gerbera) ; O. Hoffm.in Eng. Bot. Jahrb. xv. 
p. 546 (1893) ; and in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 35 (1896). 
Punco ANDONGO.—A perennial stemless herb, with the habit of a 
Scorzonera ; root-fibres fleshy, fasciculate; scape erect; capitula 
nodding. In thickets about the presidium, sporadic ; fl. and fr. Dec. 
1856. No. 3598. 
HvittaA.—F lowers white-violaceous in colour. In bushy rocky 
sparingly herbaceous places near Lopollo at the river ; fl. and fr. Nov. 
and Dec. 1859. No. 3597. The scapes range up to 15 in. long. 
2. P, abyssinicum. 
Gerbera abyssinica Schultz, Bip, ex A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 458 
(1847); O. & HL, lc., p. 445; O. Hoffm. in Engl., /.c., p. 547; and 
in Bol. Soe. Brot., J.c., p. 185. 
Punco ANDONGO.—A. perennial, cespitose, stemless herb ; rhizome 
becoming rather woody ; scapes erect ; capitula somewhat nodding ; 
flowers yellow. In dense sandy thickets between Pungo Andongo and 
the river Lutete ; fl.and fr. Oct. 1896. No. 3599. Rootstock perennial, 
many-headed ; habit almost of Apargia ; flowers golden-yellow; widely 
ceespitose in sandy bushy or wooded places between the presidium and 
the river Cuanza; fl. and young fr. middle of Dec. 1856. No. 3600. 
Huitia.—F lowers yellow. In thinly bushy places along the right 
bank of the Lopollo river ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3602. In the 
drier thickets on the right bank of the Lopollo stream ; fl. Dec. 1859. 
No. 3603. In bushy pastures near Lopollo towards Jau; fl. Jan. and 
Feb. 1860. Receptacle plane-convex, somewhat alveolate, scattered 
with a few short teeth. No. 3601, 
Trine XIIJ.—CIcHORIACES. 
77. TOLPIS Adans.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. iii. p. 508. 
1. T.fruticosa Schrank, Pl. Rar. Hort. Monae. n. 46 ¢. tab.(1819). 
Crepis filiformis Ait. Hort. Kew., edit. 1, iii. p. 128 (1789). 
