540 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Vernonia 



greenish soon spreading and easily breaking off; corolla tubular, 

 gi-adually narrowing downwards, rather shoi-ter than the anthers ; 

 lobes ovate, sub-acute ; anther-base obtuse ; style -branches ex- 

 serted, puberulous, somewhat tapering, diverging and spirally 

 curved downwards ; nectary small, fleshy, annular, glabrous ; 

 achenes glabrous when young, afterwards thinly pilose, about 

 10-ribbed; pappus rigid, setose, nearly in one row, as long as 

 the involucre, always white. 



GoLuxGO Alto. — In wooded situations throughout nearly the whole 

 district. Between Trombeta and Cabondo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. 

 Near Cacarambola July 1855, and by thickets abundantly, fl. and fr. 

 14 Aug. 1855. At Sange, June 185G. Native name " N-dolo " ; by 

 some erroneously called " Molulu." No. 3258 partly. 



Cazengo. — In Mata de Cambondo ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3258 

 partly. 



HuiLLA. — In wooded rocky parts of Humpata ; not yet in fl. April 

 1860. In the absence of fl. and fr. the determination is doubtful. 

 No. 3262. 



Nearly related to V. myrkmtha Hook, f ., but differs by the 1-flowered 

 involucres and by the presence of the auricles ; see Scott Elliot in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 84 (1894). 



5. HERDERIA Cass. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 232. 



1. H. stellulifera Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 425 (1849) ; 

 O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 298. 



Sierra Leone.— Fl. and fr. Sept. 185,3. No. 3519. 



GoLUXdO Alto. — An annual herb 2 ft. high, or rarely biennial and 

 then 3 ft. ; corollas violet-red. In shady forests and in tall damp 

 reed-beds along rivulets, at the spring of Capopa ; fl. and fr. beginning 

 of Jan. 1855. No. 3516. In the primitive forests of Quisuculo in 

 Sobato Bango ; fl. and fr. April 1856. No. 3514. An annual, rather 

 erect, much branched herb, with the habit quite of an Alsine, and red 

 corollas. In moist neglected places previously cultivated, near Sange, 

 in the Bumba country ; fl. and fr. May 1856. No. 3515. 



Ambaca. — An erect herb, 1 to 2 ft. high, with lilac-purple deciduous 

 corollas. In moist places at the wooded outskirts of the mountains 

 of Queta, near the river Moembege ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3517. 



PuNfiO AxDONGO. — An annual herb, with a slender usually quasi- 

 scandent stem, and pallid violet-coloured corollas. Among tall grasses 

 on the Calemba island in the river Cuanza ; fl. and fr. March 1857. 

 No. 3518. 



6. ELEPHANTOPUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 237. 



1. E. scaber L. >Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 814 (1753); 0. & H. in 

 Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. iii. p. 299. 



HuiLLA. — A perennial herb, growing in a ctespitose manner, with 

 the habit of the genus. In sunny wooded parts of the Monino, not 

 uncommon ; not yet in open fl. Feb. 1860. No. 3389. 



Prince's Island. — In wooded sunny places in the lower part of the 

 island ; fr. Sept. 1853. No. 3388. 



2. E. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect strigose-scabrid perennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, 

 branched in the ujoper part ; stem terete and with the bianches 



