528 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Vernonia 



caudate at the base, with lanceolate appendages at the apex ; 

 style-branches not much exceeding the anther-tube, puberulous, 

 tapermg, bluish; achenes short, about 8-ribbed, glabrous, somewhat 

 glandular ; pappus rufous, pluriseriate, setose ; the setje setulose- 

 barbellate, the outermost row short, acute, scarcely squamiform. 



PuxGO Andongo. — In rocky thickets in the presidium facing the 

 south ; fl. and young fr. middle of Dec. 1856. No. 3288. In wooded 

 pastures in Serra de Pedras de Guinga ; after fall of the corollas, 

 Jan. 1857. No. 3289. In sandy pasture scattered with bushes near 

 Candumba ; few fl. 1857. No. 3290. 



27. V. senegalensis Less, in Linnaja iv. p. 265 (1829); O. & H. 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 283 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 205 (1884). 



Decaneurimi senegalense DC. Prodr. v. p. 68 (1836). 



Ambriz. — Flowers purple ; achenes subglabrous, with several ribs, 

 beset with glands between the ribs ; pappus setose in one row. In 

 bushy somewhat stony situations between the town of Ambriz and 

 Quizembo ; fl. and fr. Nov, 1853. No. 3346. A small tree, 5 to 7 ft. 

 high, very elegant ; trunk straight, bare below, 1^ in. thick, with 

 spreading branches at the head ; flowers whitish or purplish. On 

 bushy hills next the sea, between the town of Ambriz and Quisembo ; 

 fl. and young fr. beginning of Nov. 1853. No. 3352. 



Barka de Dande. — A shrub of 5 to 6 ft., with spreading branches 

 like a tree ; flowers pale-lilac. On stony hills near Barra de Dande ; 

 fr. and few fl. Nov. 1853. The bark of the trunk and the root are very 

 bitter, and they are held in high repute by the natives as a tonic. 

 No. 3347. 



LoANDA. — A branched shrub, 5 to 7 ft. high, branches ascending ; 

 bark bitter, furnishing an astringent decoction ; flowers whitish- 

 reddish, fragrant ; corolla-tube more or less conspicuously glandular- 

 puberulous ; anthers shortly hastate scarcely tailed at the base ; style 

 pointed and quasi-stipitate at the base, from the middle towards the 

 base remarkably compressed-flat ; nectary elevated, cupuliform, deli- 

 cately denticulate at the mouth or rarely entire ; achene more or less 

 clearly 10-striate, subglabrous, glandular between the ribs. About 

 Imbondeiro dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. June 1858. No. 3354. A low tree 

 with a widely spreading head or in cultivated districts a shrub of 

 5 to 6 ft. ; corolla violet-whitish ; involucres yellow or somewhat 

 chestnut-green, with the scales ciliate on the margin ; pappus uni- 

 .seriate, turning rufous in course of drying, subentire at the base, 

 with strict denticulate somewhat thick and rigid setae. About ponds 

 (represas) at Imbondeiro dos Lobos, rather rare ; fl. and fr. July 1854. 

 No. 3355. 



Zexza do Goluxgo. — Achenes more or less obcuneate, slightly 

 compressed by mutual pressure, 10-ribbed, beset between the ribs with 

 several irregularly arranged glands, truncate at the apex ; pappus 

 uniseriate ; setse equally long, reddish, shortly hispidulous, persisting 

 a long time. On sparingly bushy hills between Tanderaxique and 

 Calumguembo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 3348. 



Goluxgo Alto. — A loosely-branched shrub, 3 ft. high, with whitish- 

 lilac flowers. In thickets along the highway between Trombeta and 

 Cabondo ; fl. and young fr. Sept. 1854. No. 3349. A shrub of 4 ft., 

 much branched from the base ; branches tomentose, rather erect ; 

 leaves especially the upper ones with large undulations so that they 

 appear sinuous ; involucres green, with obtuse scales densely ciliate 

 with whitish hairs ; corollas of a whitish-violet colour, rather fleshy, 



