Vei-nonia] lxxi. composit.e. 529 



tubular, the tube rather broad, inflated in the middle, the lobes of the 

 limb rather long, acute and connivent at the apex ; nectaries cupuli- 

 form, rather fleshy, dentate at the mouth ; achenes lO-ribbed, nearly- 

 glabrous but beset with small glands scattered or in rows ; pappus 

 uniseriate ; setaj thick, rather rigid, straight, thickened towards the 

 apex, turning rufous in old age. In secondary thickets at Sange ou 

 the right bank of the river Cuango ; fl. and fr. beginning of Oct. 1855. 

 No. 3350. A small tree of G to 10 ft. or in secondary thickets only 

 a shrub of 4 to G ft. ; branches patent ; flowers whitish, agreeably 

 aromatic. By wooded thickets near Camilungo along the Ambaca 

 road : fl. and fr. July 1855. No. 3351- A tree, 12 to 15 ft. high ; 

 stem slender ; head widely spreading ; flowers lilac, fragrant ; achenes 

 with few (3 or 4) angles, shortly hispid ; pappus uniseriate. About 

 Sange, abundant ; fl. and fr. June and July 1855. No. 3357- A tree, 

 C to 15 ft. high ; trunk 4 in. diameter at the base, occasionally in the 

 primitive forests attaining G in. ; branches erect-patent ; flowers very 

 numerous, whitish ; achenes a little bent, hispid (glandular) ; pappus 

 uniseriate ; sette rather rigid, hispid. In comparatively open thickets 

 near Sange, very abundant ; fl. and fr. end of July 185G. No. 3358- 

 A tree in the courtyard of the residency. Golungo Alto ; fl. and fr. 

 July 1855. No. 3359. A tree of 10 to 15 ft., rarely reaching 20 ft. ; 

 trunk straight, bare below, much branched above forming a spreading 

 nearly globose head completely covered with white flowers. At the 

 borders of primitive forests throughout the district ; fl. and fr. be- 

 ginning of Aug. 185G. No. 3360. A shrub sometimes erect, in other 

 cases quasi-scandent with its branches elongated, bare at the base, 

 divaricate, somewhat climbing among other shrubs or tall grasses ; 

 flowers whitish but the corymbs appearing pale-yellow on account 

 of the yellowish involucral scales. In thickets and beds of tall reeds 

 near Quibixe ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1855. No. 3361. In the village (of 

 Sange), close to the Tacula (cf. Pterocarpua tinctorhis Welw. Herb. 

 No. 18G7), and Ints'ui cuanzmsis 0. Kuntze ; fl. and fr. 30 Oct. 1855. 

 No. 3362. A low tree with numerous white flowers and more or less 

 ovate leaves not auriculate at the base. Sange, fr. Sept. 1857. Coll. 

 Cai;p. GGl. A small sufficiently elegant tree of 15 to 20 ft. high, or 

 in the secondary woods only 10 to 12 ft. high ; trunk straight, slender ; 

 bark very bitter ; head ovoid-hemispherical ; leaves membranous, 

 caducous ; flowers very abundant, corymbose-paniculate, white. In 

 forests ; fr. Aug. 1857.' Coll. Carp. GG2. 



Cazengo. — A shrub G to 8 ft. high, shaped like a tree ; flowers pale- 

 lilac, almost white. On stony hills on the left bank of the river 

 Luinha, about 2000 ft. alt. ; fl. and fr. end of June 1855. No. 3356. 



PuxGo Ando\(;o. — A shrub-like little tree but with a single trunk, 

 frondose at the apex ; flowers from whitish to lilac. In hot stony 

 thickets about Caghuy and Luxillo, sporadic ; fl. and fr. end of May 

 1857. A remarkable form on account of the sette of the pappus being 

 very thick, and at the apex clavate- thickened ; in this respect No. 3350 

 in Golungo Alto approaches this form. The young leaves are tawny- 

 velvety. No. 3353. 



This is the plant mentioned by Welwitsch, Apont. p. 58G, n. 34, 

 where it is described as remarkably ornamental and w^ell worth culti- 

 vating. The Molulus furnish a tonic, bitter bark, and are in frequent 

 use in cases of fever and diarrhoea. (See Welwitsch, Apont. p. 548 

 under n. 84.) The specimens associated here under this name com- 

 prise several difl:"erent forms which perhaps will subsequently require 

 to be arranged under distinct subspecies. Welwitsch in a note remarks 



