554 Lxxi. COMPOSIT/E. [Psiadia 



Mosi^AMEDES.^ — la sandy submaritime places to the north of the 

 town, very plentiful but seen only in one spot ; very few specimens 

 in fl. beginning of July 1859. No. 3977. 



None of the florets appear to be ligulate. 



3. P. incana 0. & H. in Oliv. El. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 320. 



HuiLLA. — A slender shrublet, with the habit of a Solhhtgo, 5 ft. 

 high or a little taller ; branches sparse, rambling ; capitula hetero- 

 gamous, radiate ; flowers yellow : the ray- florets ligulate, the ligules 

 obtuse and entire at the apex ; disk-florets hermaphrodite 5-lobed ; 

 style-branches exserted, shortly and densely pilose, obtuse ; achenes 

 pilose ; pappus uniseriate, setose, the sette remotely setulose. On 

 rocky sparingly bushy hills about Catumba, sporadic ; fl. and fr. April 

 1860. No. 3920. A branched shrub 3 to 4 ft. high, with yellow 

 flowers. In rocky thickets at Catumba. Perhaps one of the plants 

 called " Quitoco " ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3921. 



Our specimens differ from the type of the species by a less densely 

 branched and somewhat rambling habit ; they may be considered as 

 constituting a variety (var. vagans). 



Tribe IV — Inuloide.e. 



The following number, with oval, apiculate, thinly coriaceovis, 

 acutely toothed, alternate, petiolate leaves 2 to 3^ in. long by 

 1 to 2 in. broad glabrescent yellowish-green and minutely reticu- 

 late above whitish-felted beneath, has the habit of the genus 

 Brachylcuna ; but the specimens do not suffice for absolute 

 reference. 



HuiLLA. — A shrub of 5 to G ft., apparently the fresh shoots of a 

 tree damaged by the burning of the woods. In mountainous rocky 

 rather elevated places in Morro de Lopollo, rather rare ; without 

 either fl. or fr. end of March 18G0. No. 3528. 



20. TARCHONANTHUS L. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. p. 288. 



1. T. camphoratus L. Sp. PL edit. 1, p. 842 (1753); 0. & H. in 

 OHv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 321 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 206 (1884) ; 

 Engl. Hocbgebirgsfl. p. 421 (1892). 



HuiLLA. — A tree, exactly with the habit of a European broad-leaved 

 olive, attaining in the primitive forests a height of 15 to 25 ft. or 

 more, with its solid white-grey trunk full of cracks outside and 

 reaching 15 in. in diameter, and with its spreading branches and 

 branchlets forming a broad head ; but in the secondary woods or those 

 formerly burnt, only a tree of 8 to 15 ft. with rather erect branches 

 and branchlets ; leaves variable in shape, much larger in the young 

 plant than in the adult, elongate-obovate or elliptic-obovate, the top 

 ones lanceolate and bright green above, white- tomentose beneath with 

 the very short felt soft to the touch, evergreen ; capitula homogamous, 

 many-flowered, arranged in axillary racemes, apparently dicecious by 

 abortion ; corolla white, naked inside, very densely white-shaggy 

 outside, tubular ; the tube obconical ; the limb 5-cleft, with erect- 

 spreading lobes ; anthers exserted, loosely cohering or nearly free, 

 bi-setoseat the base ; style far exserted, scarcely or not at all bidentate 

 but obtusely glandular at the apex ; ovary in the male plant ; re- 

 ceptacle shaggy, narrow. In dense mixed forests to the south of the 

 Lopollo colony, at Catumba, plentiful ; male fl. 11 April 1860. Timber 



