Eleplumtopus] lxxi. composit.e. 541 



sulcate-striate, clothed with rather long whitish simple strigose- 

 hispid hairs which arise from a thickened or bulbous hard per- 

 sistent base ; branches somewhat angular above ; lower internodes 

 shorter than the leaves, the upper ones longer ; leaves altex-nate, 

 oval-elliptical or the uppermost ones somewhat lanceolate, rather 

 shortly narrowed to subacute apex, somewhat narrowed towards 

 the rounded or obtuse base, toughly membranous, rigid, dark- 

 green scattered with some hau-s like those of the stem and marked 

 with slender impressed venation above, canescent and densely 

 hispid-pubescent beneath, 1 to 3 in, long by :j to l^ in. broad; 

 the margin very narrowly revolute, minutely crenulate ; petiole 

 very short, broad, dilated and clasping at the base, pubescent- 

 hispid ; capitula narrowly ovoid-oblong, ^ to }j in. long, somewhat 

 angular or compressed, 4-Howered, silvery-strigose, sessile, arranged 

 (in one instance) in a cluster of 1 in. in diameter containing 

 24 capitula which are grouped in 3 approximated subordinate 

 subsessile clusters bracteate at the base, 2 lateral alternate and 

 1 terminal, containing 7, 7, and 10 capitula respectively; the 

 bracts ovate or lanceolate, more or less equalling the capitula 

 in length ; the principal clusters broadly campanulate or sub- 

 hemispherical, somewhat compressed, -^ to 1 in. in diameter, 

 terminal and axillary, on pedicels ranging up to 2Ji in. long or 

 sessile and then axillary or lateral, the whole forming a compound 

 somewhat leafy or bracteate ovoid terminal cyme 5 to 9 in. in 

 diameter ; in other instances the principal clusters consist of a 

 greater or smaller number of subordinate clusters ; involucral 

 bracts 8 to 10, imbricate, from lanceolate to sublinear, I to f in. 

 long, acute, silvery-strigose on the exposed part of the back, 

 glabrous and shining inside, rigid, straight and erect or nearly so, 

 the inner 4 or 5 longer and narrower than the rest, the outer 

 ones somewhat cymbiform ; corolla narrowly tubular, purple- 

 blue ; the tube i in. long, very slender, glabrous ; the limb about 

 j~ in. long, quadripartite ; the segments sublinear, ciliate at the 

 apex, unequal, yV to yV "i- lo^^g ,• anthers shorter than the corolla- 

 segments, obtuse at the base, narrowly lanceolate at the apex, 

 easily separating, style rather exceeding the corolla-segments, 

 puberulous, rather shortly bilobed ; the lobes tapei'ing ; achenes 

 about y— in. long, compressed, nari'owing downwards, 10-ribbed, 

 the ribs strigose with whitish hairs directed upwards, the inter- 

 costal spaces scattered with minute glands ; pappus i in. long, 

 of a pallid-straw colour, consisting of 8 unequal compressed 

 or slightly cymbiform narrow sub-paleaceous setse, more or less 

 ciliolate towards the acute apex. 



PuNco Andongo. — In open bushy forests between Quibinde and 

 Quitage ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 3387- 



3. E. angolensis O. Holim. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 172 (1893). 

 Forma foliis valde rugosis, 0. Hofim., I.e., p. 173. 

 HriLi.A. — A perennial herb, with the habit of the genus, and 

 purple-blue flowers. On a coarse-sandy soil iu open places scattered 



