Calostephane] Lxxi. composit.e. 569 



34. CALOSTEPHANE Bentb. ; Bentli. & liook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 335. 



1. C. divaricata Benth. in Itook. Ic. PI. xii. p. 11, t. 1111 

 (1872) ; O. k II. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 3G3. 



Geigeria caleudidacea Wehv. ex O. lloffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. 

 xiii. p. 26 (1896). 



Mos.SAMEDES. — An annual or biennial herb, with the aspect of the 

 Calendulas, \\ to 2 ft. high, erect or decumbent at the base, dichoto- 

 mously much-branched ; stem winged ; branches slender, spreading ; 

 leaves pellucid-punctate, decurrent ; flowers yellow ; capitula hetero- 

 gamous ; ray-florets few, female, uniseriate, ligulate, 3- or 4-toothed ; 

 disk-florets hermaphrodite, tubular, fj-lobed, the tube glandular-papillose 

 and obconical below ; anthers tailed ; receptacle not paleaceous ; achenes 

 obcuneate, angular, hispidulous, truncate : pappus biseriate, the fj 

 outer paleaB short flabelliform and very obtuse, the .5 inner narrower 

 and terminated with a long rough seta after the fashion of the fruit 

 of Scablosa ; style-branches lanceolate, compressed. On the sands 

 of the estuary along the banks of the river Bero near the town ; fl. 

 and fr. July 1859. Seen also at the river Caroca. No. 3M1. 



35. MOLLERA O. Hoffm. in Bol. See. Brot. x. p. 174 (1893). 



1. M. angolensis 0. Hoffm, I.e. 



PuxGo Andoxco. — A slender annual herb ; flowers yellow, with 

 spreading rays. In sandy wooded places between Quisonde and Condo ; 

 fl. March 1857. No. 3984. 



2. M. punctulata Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect, scabrid, grey-green, somewhat slender, annual herb, 

 7 to 1 1 in. high, simple below, corymbosely bi'anched above ; stem 

 and branches narrowly winged by the decnrrence of the leaves, 

 moderately leafy throughout ; leaves alternate or the lower ones 

 opposite, oblanceolate or sublinear, somewhat narrowed towards 

 the sessile decurrent base, mostly obtuse at the apex, ^ to 1 in. 

 long, scattered with small black dots, the margins cartilaginous- 

 revolute, dentate along the upper half; capitula heterogamous, 

 radiate, singly terminating the stem and branches, erect, on 

 peduncles ranging up to about | in. long; flowers yellow; involucre 

 hemispherical, about | in. in diameter, its scales sub-biseriate, 

 subequal, free to the base, linear, acute, about 12, hispid and 

 ciliate, minutely glandular ; florets of the ray female, fertile, the 

 ligule oblong, i in. long ; florets of the disc shorter, numerous, 

 hermaphrodite, fertile, tubular ; corolla-lobes acute ; anther-base 

 narrowly caudate ; ovary glandular, longitudinally ribbed ; 

 pappus 0. 



HuiLLA. — In moist pastures amongst low bushes, near Lopollo ; 

 fl. end of March 1860. No. 3976. 



3. M. huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect undershrub, 1^ ft. high ; stems subterete and nodulose 

 below with the numerous scars of fallen leaves, puberulous and 

 narrowly winged above ; leaves alternate, branches numerous, 

 puberulous, striate, leafy, linear or oblanceolate-linear, obtusely 

 pointed at the apex, narrowed attenuated or spathulate towards 



