622 LXXI, COMPOSITA. | Lactuca 
of the flower. In bushy rather dry places near Sange ; fl. and fr. 
August 1856. No. 3628. In wooded places at the borders of thickets 
in Sobato Quilombo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1855. No. 3637. 
This species is very closely related to L. capensis Thunb., and has 
been united with it by some authors. 
7. L. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect branched herb, 14 ft. high, apparently biennial, 
glabrous or nearly so; stem reddish ; lower leaves oblong, undi- 
vided, denticulate, obtuse, sessile, scarcely narrowed at the base, 
1 to 1} in. long; fruiting capitula campanulate, nearly an inch 
long, on unequal pedicels ranging up to 2} in. long, arranged 
in a rather lax oblong terminal cyme; involucral scales pluri- 
seriate, imbricate; the inner ones about 12 in 2 or 3 rows linear- 
lanceolate, acute, about ? in. long, glabrous or nearly so; the 
outer ones shorter, more deltoid, minutely pruinose-pulverulent 
on the back; achenes { in. long including the pappus or half as 
long excluding the pappus, narrowly elliptical, attenuate towards 
the apex into a beak nearly as long as the body of the achene, 
somewhat compressed, more or less scattered with very short 
hairs, marked on each side with one principal and two slighter 
nerves; pappus whitish, 2 in. long, copious, setose, the sete 
scaberulous. 
Puneo ANnponco.—In bushy places on a sandy clay soil, near 
Luxilla ; fr.; only one specimen, Jan. 1857. No. 3657. 
80, SONCHUS Tournef., L.: Benth. & Hook. f.Gen. PI. ii, p. 528. 
1. S. oleraceus L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 794 (1753); O. & H. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 457. 
Loanpa.—In cultivated plots near Loanda, at Esquina de Bungo 
rather rare ; fl. and fr. May 1854. No. 3641. 
Gotunco ALTo.—An annual glaucous herb; stem strictly erect, 
rather rigid as well as the leaves; flowers pale yellow. In damp 
grassy places on the left bank of the stream Quiapoze, roadway near 
Menha-Lula; fl. and fr. Jan. 1854. No. 3639. A much-branched 
annual herb, 3 to 5 ft. high, usually beset (as in Europe) with 
pertinacious white mucor-like patches on the leaves ; achenes trans- 
versely rugulose on the ribs and interspaces. Almost everywhere in 
cultivated and rich waste places, perhaps originally introduced with 
seeds from Europe; in the court of the residency, July 1855. 
No. 3642. Achenes transversely rugulose, In moist warm places 
near Camilungo; fr. May 1856. No. 3643. Both in cultivated and 
in uncultivated places near the dwellings of the negroes, at Bango ; fr. 
April 1855. No. 3644. 
Var. asper L., l.c. 
S. asper Hill, Herb. Brit. p. 47, c. fig. (1769). 
Gotunco Axro.—A glaucescent rather rigid rough herb, 2 to 5 ft. 
high ; stem acutely alate-angular with the decurrent keels of the 
leaves, towards the base as well as the leaves reddish or purple, on the 
upper part nearly bare and obtusely angular with the angles obsolete 
or but little prominent ; flowers sulphur-yellow ; ligules tridentate, 
sordid-red or brick-red beneath ; receptacle foveolate, with a small 
