Sphacophyllvm] Lxxi. coMPOSiTiE. 573 



37. SPHACOPHYLLUM Benth. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 339. 



1. S. pinnatifidum O. Holim. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 2G (1896). 

 HuiLi.A. — In thickets flooded in the rainy season, near Empalanca ; 



fl.-bud Dec. ISh^ and Jan. 18G0. Xo. 3443. In dryin£f-up swamps on 

 the right bank of the Lopollo river ; fl. April 1860. No. 3442. 



2. S. candelabrum O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 27. 



Hni.LA. — Capitula heterogamous, radiate, yellow ; style more than 

 usually thick, with short somewhat compressed branches, thickened 

 at the apex ; paleaj of the receptacle very tall. In moist places at the 

 "outskirts of forests near Catumba and between MumpuUa and Nene 

 and between the latter and Humpata ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859 and May 

 18G0. No. 3444. Flowers golden-yellow : achenes 4- or .'t-angular, 

 truncate, the angles hispidulous ; crown of the pappus short, densely 

 paleaceous, with 1 to 3 angles prolonged into brittle setie. In marshy 

 places at the banks of streams near Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. 

 No. 3981. 



This species approaches closely to the genus Ani802Mj)/m.s, and has 

 the aspect of A . chhiensis Hook & Arn. 



3. S. WelwitscMi 0. Hoffm., I.e. 



PuN(;() Andongo. — An erect annual herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, vsdth 

 golden-yellow flowers. In open sandy forests along the banks of the 

 river Cuanza, near Mopopo : fl. and fr. 30 April 18.'>7. No. 3985. 

 This species has the aspect of S. africanum O. Hoffm. {Astephania 

 africana Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1506), but it differs by its broader 

 concave scales on the receptacle embracing the florets ; the achenes 

 seen by me are very nearly glabrous, and not pilose as stated in 

 Hoffmann's description quoted above. 



4. S. puniilum Hiern, sp. n. 



A scabrid-pubescent or puberulons undershrub ; pubescence 

 whitish, crisp, sometimes obsolete; rootstock thick, woody, perennial, 

 branched ; stems decumbent or ascending, branched at and near 

 the base, rather slender and wiry above, 3 to 5 in. high in our 

 specimens but apparently they are only young shoots after the 

 burning of the previous stems ; branches erect or ascending, slender, 

 leafy below, sulcate-striate ; leaves alternate, mostly crowded, 

 narrowly linear or linear-oblanceolate, obtuse at the apex, sessile 

 or the lower ones spathulate-subpetiolate, dull-green, thick, i to 

 }t in. long, ascending or somewhat spreading, the margins entire, 

 involute ; capitula broadly campanulate or sub-hemispherical, not 

 turbinate, ^ ^'^ ^ i^- i^ diameter, heterogamous, radiate, many- 

 llowered, terminating the erect or ascending peduncular branches ; 

 involucral scales pauciseriate, oval-oblong or sublinear, subobtuse, 

 i to 1 in. long, subglabrous or ciliolate-timbriate near the apex, 

 the outer ones somewhat cymbiform below ; flowers yellow ; ligulate 

 florets uniseriate, female; the ligule exceeding the involucre, oval, 

 plnrinerved ; disk -florets multiseriate, heruitiplu-odito, 1 to i in. 

 long; the corolla narrowly funnel-shaped from a slender base, 

 glabrous, exceeding the involucre, shortly 5-lobed, the lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate; anthers prod need at the apex into lanceolate appendages, 



