Verno7iia] LXXi. composite'. 521 



pubescent or sometimes even tomentose ; leaves fasciculate, glaucescent- 

 hoary, rather fleshy, rigid, obovate-spathulate, emarginate, subdentate; 

 capitula of a deep blue-purple colour, homogamous : corolla tubular- 

 campanulate, 5-cleft ; the pappus remarkably developed before the 

 opening of the flowers. Only near Alto das Cruzes above the city of 

 Loanda, in rough steep situations, not abundant ; fl. and fr. middle 

 of Dec. 1858. No. 3380. 



14. V. cinerea Less, in Liunjea iv. p. 291 (1829) ; 0. & H. in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 275. 



Conyza cinerea L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 862 (1753). 



Barra do Ben'CU). — An erect herb, with reddish flowers. At the 

 banks of the river Bengo near Quifandongo, abundant ; fl. and fr. 

 12 Sept. 1854. No. 3907. 



Icoi.o E Bengo. — In wet places in palm-groves by the river Bengo 

 near Panda ; fl. and fr Dec. 1853. No. 3908. 



GoLUXGO Alto.— No notes. Fl. and fr. No. 3906- 



With this species must be compared Nos. 3309 to 3314, mentioned 

 under T'. unduJata O. e^ H., some of which agree fairly well with a 

 specimen in Herb. Kew. from Angola collected by Monteiro and con- 

 sidered in the Flora of Tropical Africa iii. p. 276 as a form of the 

 latter species or perhaps a new species ; they occupy an intermediate 

 position between the two species with respect to the degree of acute- 

 ness of the involucral scales, and there are almost corresponding forms 

 in tropical Asia. 



15. V. undulata 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 270 ; 

 0. Hoffm. in Bol. See. Brot. x. p. 171 (1893). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In neglected fields and by roadsides between 

 Trombeta and Cabondo ; fr., most of the corolla having fallen, Sept. 

 1854. No. 3311. A perennial herb, 1 to 2 ft. high ; rootstock rather 

 woody, many-headed ; flowers very bright-purple. On sunny elevated 

 declivities in Sobato de Quilombo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1855. No. 3312. 

 A perennial herb, 1^ to 2| ft. high ; root many-headed ; stem erect ; 

 corollas of a red-violet colour, soon deciduous. At the outskirts of 

 primitive forests and in palm-groves, between Calolo and Trombeta ; 

 fl. and fr. Sept. 1855. No. 3313. A perennial herb, 1 to U ft. high ; 

 root woody ; stems several, erect from the middle, leafy when young : 

 involucral scales lanceolate, acuminate-subulate, reddish, delicately 

 pubescent, uninerved ; corollas prettily purplish ; achenes obcuneate, 

 the younger ones subcompressed and more or less pilose ; pappus 

 biseriate, always white, the outer row spreading, one-third as long as 

 the hispidulous inner row. In fields after a crop of AnicJih hi/pflf/aid 

 L. by the road between Sange and Camilungo ; fl. and fr. July 1S55. 

 A form with the involucral scales a little more acute than in the type 

 (O. Hoffm., I.e.). No. 3314. A suffruticose herb, 3 to 5 ft. high ; 

 rhizome woody ; stem at the base as thick as a man's finger, soon 

 patently branched ; branches slender, elongated, scandent ; corollas 

 violet-purplish. In the more elevated forests of Sobato Quilombo ; 

 fl. and fr. middle of July 1856. A form with broadly ovate, remotely 

 toothed leaves, ranging up to 2 in. long by U in. broad. No. 3268. 



AiMHACA. — Flowers purple. In moist places on the left bank of the 

 river Cariuga ; fl. June 1855. A form with more oval-oblong leaves. 

 No. 3309. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A perennial herb ; rootstock thick, many-headed ; 

 stems cfespitose erect or ascending, 1 to 1| ft. high ; involucral scales 



