578 Lxxi. coMPosiT.E. [Wedelicc 



PuNco ANDON(i(),— In thickets very frequently flooded, near 

 Candumba ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 3557- 



46. ASPILIA Thouars ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 371. 



1. A. Welwitschii 0. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 29 (1896). 

 Hx'iLi>A. — Rootstock thick, hard-woody ; stems several, rigid, 



straight or ascending ; flowers golden-yellow, nearly orange or deep 

 orange in colour ; achenes subcompressed, tetragonal, pubescent on 

 the upper part ; pappus either bi-aristate or bidentate. In pastures 

 amidst tall bushes on the right bank of the Lopollo stream, fl. and f r. 

 Oct. and Nov. 1859 and again in Jan. 1860 ; also in hilly places on a 

 rich soil covered with acacia shrubs, on the right bank of the Lopollo 

 stream, plentiful, fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3559. 



Var. serrata. 



Leaves more or less serrate, at least on the upper half. 



HuiLLA. — In thickets near Mumpulla ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3560. 



2. A. bipartita 0. Hoffm., I.e., p. 30. 



PuNGo Anddxcd.^A perennial herb ; primary stem rooting below ; 

 capitula heterogamous, yellow ; involucral scales few, rigidly coriaceous, 

 imbricate, biseriate ; ray-florets ligulate, neuter, bifid to the middle, 

 with obtuse lobes ; disk-florets each sheathed with a scarious bract,^ 

 6-cleft, with reflexed lobes and somewhat pilose tube ; anthers 

 delicately caudiculate or shortly hastate-aristate at the base, far 

 exserted ; style glabrous, the branches far exserted, circinate, above 

 the middle flattened, somewhat pilose inside not outside, acutely 

 pointed at the apex : achenes few, thickened on the margin, quad- 

 rangular, truncate, glabrous, sometimes tuberculate, with the angles 

 cartilaginous-costate : pappus coroniform in the centre of the achene, 

 paleaceous. In damp sandy places between Condo and Quisondo ; 

 fl. and fr. March 18.57. Xo. 3584. 



3. A. trichodesmoides O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 28. 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — A herb with the habit of an Echkim, Lycojysis, or 

 Cerianthe ; root tuberous- woody, perennial ; stems numerous, ascending, 

 1 to 2 ft. high ; flowers from lilac to purple ; achenes precisely 

 similar to those of .1. h'q^artita O. Hoffm. (Welw. Herb. no. .3564), 

 In rocky bushy places near Muta-Lucala, only in one spot ; fl. and fr. 

 beginning of March 1857. No. 3565. 



4. A. helianthoides O. k H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 381. 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — In swampy places near Camilungo ; without 



either fl. or fr. March 1856. Nos. 3972 and 3972&. For want of 

 suJ9Bcient material the determination is doubtful. 



5. A. fontinalis Hieru, sp. n. 



An erect rigid herb or underslirub, 1 to 2 ft. high ; stems 

 striate, simple or nearly so, nearly smooth below, above leafy, 

 obtusely angular, more or less hispid-scabrid with pale hairs 

 arising from a papilliform base; leaves opposite, ovate or sub- 

 elliptical, not acuminate, pointed at the apex, obtuse or somewhat 

 wedge-shaped at the subsessile or very shortly petiolate base, 

 I'igidly membranous, dull green, scabrid-strigulose above, strigose- 

 hispid and scarcely paler beneath, distantly serrulate, erect-patent, 

 indistinctly triplinervcd at or near the base, 1^ to 2^ in. by \ to 



