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hemispherical elevation, on which the achene is seated, in each 
depression. In marshy beds of reeds and reed-maces on the right 
bank of the river Cuango and at the banks of the stream Quiapoze, 
plentiful, flowering from October to January; Varzea do Isidro, 
fl. and fr. 20 Oct. 1855. The achenes are longitudinally ribbed, but 
not transversely rugulose. No. 3640. 
2. §. Schweinfurthii O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 458. 
Go.tunao AtTo.—A glaucescent, erect or decumbent herb, 3 to 4 ft. 
high ; foliage variable. In damp palm-groves near Bango ; fr. May 
1856. Capitula subsolitary. No. 3645. In similar situations in 
Sobato de Bumba; fl. and fr. Oct. 1855. No. 3646. An elegant herb, 
3 to 4 ft. high or more; flowers pale yellow. In palm-groves near 
Bango Aquitamba ; fl. July 1856. No. 3647. No notes; fr. No. 3648. 
Var. violaceus. Flowers bluish-purple or violet-coloured. 
Huitia.—A herb 4 to 6 ft. high. In moist herbaceous places, not 
far from the river Quipumpunhime, plentiful but nearly all the 
specimens damaged by flood ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. No. 3649. 
3. §. Fischeri O. Hoffm. in. Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr., C, p. 421 (1895). 
Lactuca Welwitschii Elliot in Journ, Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 30 (1891). 
Puneo ANpDoNGO.—An annual, very milky herb, with the habit of 
a. Lactuca; florets yellowish. In the gravelly beds of a dried-up 
stream in the presidium near Catete, sparingly; fl. and fr. April 
1857. No. 3661. An annual herb, root swelling, milky, very bitter ; 
scapes 2 ft. high, not uncommonly turning purple as also do the 
obovate or oblong radical leaves; florets sulphur-yellow; achenes 
compressed, ribbed, the ribs not transversely rugose. In a sandy 
bushy part of the open forest between the presidium and Luxillo, 
plentiful but seen only in one spot; fl. and fr. beginning of May 
1857. The scapes are either solitary or in pairs. No. 3662. 
I have not seen the type of O. Hoffman’s species, which was 
founded on a plant from Usula-Usiha in Massailand. Elliot describes, 
c,, this species as perennial, and includes under it a plant of his own 
gathering from Fort Dauphin in Madagascar. ‘T'he following Nos. 
‘should be compared with this species :— 
GOLUNGO ALTo.—A herb, 6 to 12 in. high; root thick, milky, 
perennial ; leaves radical, glaucescent, rosulate ; flowers whitish. In 
hilly rather dry sunny places between Trombeta and Cambondo; fi. 
and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 3632. 
AmBaAcA.—A herb, apparently perennial, but flowering in its first 
year ; root branched, cylindrical, vertical, several-headed ; radical 
leaves obovate, rosulate ; stems erect, much branched, sparingly and 
only at the base leafy ; flowers yellowish. In bushy pastures between 
Halo and Zambe ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 3634. 
Hviitia.—Flowers yellowish. In varzeas (meadows) along the 
banks of the Lopollo stream, plentiful but very quickly disappearing ; 
fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3664. 
4. §. Elliotianus. 
Dianthoseris sp., Scott Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 84 
(1894). Lactuca nana Baker in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 17. Cf. 
S. nanus O. Hoffm. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C, p. 421 (1895); 
non Sond. (1865). 
AmBACA.—A perennial herb, 14 to 3 in. high; rhizome 1 to 2 in. 
thick, milky, densely shaggy tomentose at its crown, many-headed ; 
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