552 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Marsea 



produced at the apex into short triangular-lanceolate pointed 

 appendages; style glabrous or nearly so up to its 2 short 

 lanceolate acute narrow included hispidulous-ciliate branches ; 

 ovary very short, scattered with some long pallid spreading hairs, 

 with a broad callus at the base ; female florets outer, pauciseriate, 

 narrowly tubular, rather shorter than the hermaphrodite florets 

 but with the ovary longer than in them ; young achene some- 

 what compressed, rather broader upwards, Jj in. long, hairy ; 

 basal callus perforated ; pappus sub-biseri'ate, setose, straw- 

 coloured, Jj i^- l*^"g > ^he setae numerous, unequal, setulose ; 

 receptacle depresso-convex, shallowly pitted, beset except about 

 the circumference with subpaleaceous sette. 



Ambaca. — On wooded hills near Puri-Cacarambola, sparingly, in 

 company with Pnll/cJun pJn/fudo/des ; (Welw. herb. No. 5450) ; fl. and 

 young fr. Oct. 1856. No. 4005. 



The general appearance of the plant suggests the genus Nidorella, 

 but the technical characters are rather of Marsea. 



'4. M. Gouani. 



Erigeron Gouani L. Mant. PI. alt. p. 469 (1771). Conyza 

 Gouani Willd. Sp. PI. iii. p. 1928 (1800); O. & H., I.e., p. 316. 



Ambaca. — A herb, apparently biennial, with the habit of an 

 Ericferon ; stem ascending, branched in the upper part ; florets 

 yellowish. In the gravelly beds of dried-up rivulets between Canaulo 

 and Cabinda. and from the latter towards Izanga ; fl. and fr. Oct. 



1856. No. 3439. 



PuXGO Andoxgo. — Stoloniferous. In wet wooded meadows 

 between Luxillo and Cazella ; fl. and young fr. April 1857. This is 

 probably the plant referred to by Welwitsch in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii., 

 p. 154 (1859), as a kind of Erigeron. No. 3425. A herb with erect 

 stems from a perennial rootstock, 1 to 3 ft. high and yellowish flowers. 

 In the rocky thickets of Valle de Cabondo, rather rare ; fl. Feb. 



1857. No. 3438. 



HuiLLA.— At LopoUo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3423. Flowers 

 yellowish. In rich pastures near LopoUo ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 3424. 

 In places of cultivation near Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. Root 

 prsemorse, flbrous ; stem 3 ft. high, sparingly branched. One 

 specimen, copied for the British Museum set. No. 3437. 



5. M. pyrrhopappa. 



Conyza fyrrlioixippa Schultz Bip. ex A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 

 p. 389 (1847); O. & H., I.e., p. 318. Erigeron 2>y'>")'h,02)a2)pus 

 Schultz Bip. in Schweinf. Fl. ^thiop. (i.), p. 147 (1867). 



Huii-LA. — An undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high. In neglected fields in 

 the Lopollo country ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1859 and end of Jan. 1860. 

 No. 3427. 



This plant by number is quoted by 0. Hoffmann in Bol. Soc. Brot. 

 xiii., p. 23 (1896), as belonging to M. Gouani. 



6. M. stricta. 



Conyza stricta Willd., I.e., p. 1922 (1800); 0. & H., I.e. 



Ambaca.— An annual or more frequently a biennial herb, erect, 

 with the habit nearly of Erigeron, simple stem, and sordid-yellowish 

 flowers. In sandy and gravelly places along the banks of the streams 



