Aspilia] LXXI. COMPOSITyE. 579 



1|- in. broad; petioles ranging np to ^ in. long, hirsute-hispid; 

 capitula campanulate, about ] in. long, heterogamous, radiate, 

 solitary, terminal and sub-terminal ; peduncles short, ranging up 

 to |- in. long, hirsute-hispid ; involucral scales sub-biseriate, oblong, 

 free to the base ; the outer ones hispid on the back, about 5, 

 coriaceous-foliaceous, obtusely pointed at the apex, nearly flat, 

 about -o in. long ; the inner ones rigid, dry, about \ in. long, 

 glabrous below, terminated at the apex with an ovate pointed 

 ciliate appendage, nearly flat or somewhat convex ; scales of the 

 receptacle ovate-oblong, folded, embracing the florets, i to J in. 

 long; flowers sulphur-yellow; ray-florets uniseriate, ligulate, 

 about 1^ in. long, neuter ; the lamina about 1 in. long, oljovate, 

 tridentate at the tip, spreading; the ovary compressed, linear, 

 slightly hairy, A in. long, surmounted with a coroniform shortly 

 bristly pappus ; disk-florets nearly ^j in. long, hermaphrodite, the 

 corolla tubular, shortly lobed ; anthers minutely sagittate at the 

 base ; style-branches short, rather flattened, broadly rounded at 

 the apex, hairy, not appendaged ; ovary i in. long, somewhat 

 compressed, linear, hairy-setose ; pappus eupuliform, shallow, 

 l)roader than the top of the ovary, persistent, exaristate, scattered 

 with a few whitish setse, fimbriate at the apex with very short 

 slender teeth ; achenes oblong, obtusely angular-compressed, about 

 I- in. long, scattered with short hairs. 



PuNoo AxDONfio. — In the Panda forest near Condo, close to the 

 cataract of the river Cuanza ; fl. and fr. 15 March 1857. No. 3558. 



G. A. Kotschyi Benth. & Hook. f. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxix. p. 98 (1873); O. & H., I.e. ; O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 30. 



GoLUNCO Alto. — An annual herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, resembling a 

 Lycopi^is in habit and in the colour of the atro-purpureous flowers. 

 In level fields and amongst thickets in rather barren places near Bango, 

 Sange, Cambondo, etc. : fl. and fr. from May to July 1S55. Xo. 3561- 

 lu reed-beds (capinaes) at the outskirts of primitive forest of 

 Quisucnla, abundant ; fl. and ripe fr. April ISoG. No. 3562- In 

 rather dry hilly places by the river Delamboa : fl. and fr. May 18r»(j. 

 No. 3563. An annual or biennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; flowers like 

 those of a Zinnia., but black-purple velvety. About Sange and 

 Quisucula ; fr. May 185G. Coll. Carp. 6GG. 



47. MELANTHERA Rohr; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 377. 



1. M. Brownei Schultz Bip. in Flora, 1844, p. 673; O. t H. in 

 (_)liv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 382 ; Ficalho, PI. TJteis, p. 208 (1884). 



Buphthalmum scandens Schum. & Thonn. in Danske Yidensk. 

 Selsk. iv. p. 166 (1829). Lipotriche Brownei DC. Prodr. v. p. 544 

 (1836). A 7)iellus scandens O. Kuntze,Ptev. Gen. PI. i. p. 306 (1891). 



GoLUNco Alto. — A subscandent herb, 3 to 4 ft. high: flowers 

 large, deep-yellow, with the florets of the disk paler ; ray-florets 

 flattened, quite patent, nerved, emarginate-denticulate at the apex ; 

 achenes shortly obcuneate, more or less compressed, obtusely 3- or 

 4-angular, smooth : pappus consisting of 7 to 9 unequally long very 

 brittle bristles. In elevated thickets among the Queta mountains 

 above N-delle, in company with Na^wleona^a imperiali'i P. Beauv. ; fl. 



