576 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Sdei'ocarpiis 



Cazengo. — At Dalatauda ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3943. 



MossAMEDES. — Stri^ulose. In bushy herbaceous places ou the right 

 bank of the river Bero, sporadic ; fl. and fr. end of July 1859. 

 No. 3939. An annual ascending branched herb ; flowers yellow ; 

 achenes trigonous, gibbous. At Cavalheiros ; fr. July 1859. Colj.. 

 Carp. 687. 



44. OMPHALOPAPPUS O. Hoffm. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 5, p. 234 (1890). 



1. 0. Newtoni O. Hoffm., I.e., and in Bol. See. Brot. x. p. 177 

 (1893), and xiii. p. 28 (1896). 



HuiLLA. — An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with the habit of an 

 Epilohium ; stems involucres and florets purple ; capitula homo- 

 gamous ; florets all tubular, 5-cleft ; anthers shortly cordate ; style 

 compressed, its branches short, flat-concave on the inner face, acutely 

 acuminate ; achenes acutely angular, at the truncate apex the angles 

 running out into teeth, without any other pappus ; receptacle pale- 

 aceous. At the herbaceous banks of the Monino stream, amongst 

 wiUows and species of Faurea ; fl. and young fr. Feb. and April 

 1860. No. 3440. 



45 WEDELIA Jacq. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 370. 



1. W. africana Pars. Syn. PI. ii. p. 490 (1807) ; P. Beauv. Fl. 

 Ow. et Benin, ii. p. 19, t. 69 (1810); 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. iii. p. 376. 



Seruneum africanum 0. Kuntze, He v. Gen. PI. i. p. 365 (1891). 



PuNGO AxD()Nx;o. — An erect, sparingly branched undershrub, 2 to 

 4 ft. high ; leaves membranous, rather rigid, ranging up to 5J in. long 

 by If in. broad ; flowers yellow. In rocky places at the cataracts of 

 streams, Calunda and Tunda Quilombo, arimo (cultivated field) of 

 Senhor Salgado, sparingly ; fl. end of Jan. 1857. No. 3567. Capitula 

 heterogamous ; flowers yellow ; ray-florets 2- or pluri-seriate, the inner 

 row variously shaped, fertile ; central florets hermaphrodite, several 

 of them barren ; anthers turning black, ecaudate ; style-branches 

 circinate, acuminate at the apex ; young achenes of the ray-florets 

 truncate, constricted below the coroniform apex, obscurely angular ; 

 pappus coroniform, delicately fringed rather than toothed. At the 

 Condo cataract of the river Cuanza, sporadic ; fl. March 1857. 

 No. 3568. 



Our specimens differ from the type of the species by shorter 

 peduncles and more numerous capitula ; they should be compared 

 with W. angoleusis Klatt in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, vii. 

 p. 102 (1892), authentic specimens of which I have not seen. 



2. W. huillensis Hiern, sp. n, 



A wiry herb, 2 ft. high or more ; stems striate, subglabrate, 

 terete ; branches slender, more or less scabrid, strigulose with 

 short pallid hairs, the internodes often longer than the leaves, 

 erect-patent ; leaves opposite, narrowly lanceolate, acute or 

 pointed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the subsessile base, rather 

 rigidly membranous, dull green and strigulose or scabrid above, 

 paler strigose and minutely black-dotted beneath, erect-patent, 

 1 to 4 in. long by i to 1 in. broad, distantly serrulate or sub- 



