520 Lxxi, COMPOSIT.E. [Ver7ioma 



Quisonde and Condo ; fl. and young fr. middle of March 1857. No. 

 3374. A slender annual herb, ■with violet-purple flowers, remarkably 

 gregarious and growing in dense masses in company with the variety 

 chlorolepis ; in moist wooded meadows by the river Cuanza, near 

 Sansamanda, colouring violet very wide tracts ; fl. and young fr. 

 1 May 1857. No. 3375 (partly). 



/3. Chlorolepis (Steetz, I.e.) 0. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 

 p. 171 (1893). 



V. Steetziana 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 273. 



GoLDNGo Alto. — A grey herb, 2 ft. high, with a broom-like habit 

 and reddish flowers, the heads resembling those of a Centanrea ; in 

 dry places by thickets between Canaulo and Ambaca, abundant ; fl. 

 and young fr. May 1856. No. 3376. 



PuNCio Andongo. — A gregarious, erect, annual herb, with deep- 

 purple flowers ; in very elevated, grassy, rocky parts of Pedra de Cazella 

 within the prajsidium, abundant ; fl. and fr. May 1857. Also in sunny 

 situations amongst the rocks of the presidium, fl. and fr. very rare, 

 middle of Jan. 1857. No. 3370. Flowers purple ; in wooded meadows 

 between the fortress of Pungo Andongo and Mangue ; fl. and fr. 

 March 1857. No. 3371- An annual erect herb, branched in a broom- 

 like manner ; leaves lanceolate, bright-green above, with whitish raised 

 nervation beneath ; flowers purole ; in elevated herbaceous parts of 

 Pedra Cabondo ; fl. and fi-. 17 April 1857. No. 3373- With the form 

 vulgaris by the river Cuanza. No. 3375 (partly). 



MossAMEDES. — In blown sand ; fl. July 1859. A simple plant with 

 linear leaves, only one specimen, apparently this variety. No. 3368. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers purple ; in exposed wooded places amongst 

 thickets near Catumba ; fl. and fr. April and May 1860. No. 3366. 

 A rather rigid undershrub, with a straight stem and purple flowers ; 

 in thin forests between Nene and MumpuUa, sparingly ; several 

 specimens seen, but only one in fl. ; in company with plants of Faurea, 

 end of May 1860. No. 3367. 



y. HoflBnanni. 



V. Perrottetii, forma microcephala, 0. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. 

 X. p. 170 (1893) ; vix Schultz Bip. 



Pungo Andongo. — At the sandy outskirts of forests between 

 Condo and Quisonde, not far from the river Cuanza ; not yet in full 

 fl. March 1857. No. 3372. 



MossAMEDES. — An erect or ascending annual herb, 2 ft. high, with 

 alternate linear leaves and purple flowers. In sandy places at the 

 banks of the river Bero, not far from the estuary, rather rare ; fl. and 

 fr. end of July 1859. No. 3339. 



HuiLLA.— Flowers purple ; in bushy places in coarse sandy places 

 between Ferrao da Sola and Jau ; fl. and fr. beginning of May 1860. 

 No. 3369. 



13. V. cinerascens Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Fl. ^thiop. p. 162 

 (1867) ; 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 275. 



Loan DA. — A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high ; branches divaricate, brittle ; 

 the whole plant very rigid, even the leaves which are rather fleshy 

 turning rigid ; flowers purple. On sandy and rocky hills near Alto 

 das Cruzes, rare in other places ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1854 and Jan. 1858. 

 No. 3379. A herb, 3 to 5 ft. high ; stems casspitose or crowded, 

 ascending or suberect ; branches and branchlets brittle, rigid, scaly- 



