582 LXXi. COMPOSIT.E. [Melardhera 



fl. and fr. July 1858. No. 3547. An apparently annual herb ; stem 

 suberect or frequently quasi-scandent among bushes ; leaves bright 

 green in the living state. In dry and also in damp thickets between 

 Teba and Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. August 1H58. No. 3548- 



Benguklla. — By thickets along the river Cotumbella on the side 

 of the town of Benguella, sporadic ; fl. and fr. June 1859. No. 3550. 



MossAMEDES. — In gravelly bushy places along the banks of the 

 river Bero, at Quipola ; fl. and fr. June 1860. No. 3551. 



The above Nos. from the district of Loanda differ from the others, 

 vphich must be coQsidei'ed the type of the species, by rather smaller 

 capitula, also by less truncate achenes (No. 3548), or by the presence of 

 a hairy ring at the top (f the otherwise glabrous ovary in addition to 

 the solitary arista (No. 3547) ; they perhaps belong to distinct specie!^. 



4. M. scaberrima Hiern, sp. n. 



An undershrub, densely wooded at the base, sub-herbaceous 

 above, rather rigid throughout, 2 to 4 ft. high ; wood yellowish ; 

 branches erect-patent, obtusely angular, sulcate, strigulose-scabrid, 

 pallid ; leaves opposite or ternate, ovate, acuminate or very acute 

 at the apex, rather abruptly narrowed at the base, very scabrous 

 with short stiff pale hairs arising from a papilliform base, deep 

 green above, paler beneath, rigidly coriaceous, sharply serrate 

 except near the apex and base, strongly nerved beneath, 1^ to 21 in. 

 long by 4 to \\ in. broad ; j)etiole ^ to i in. long ; capitula sub- 

 hemispherical, i to ^ in. in diameter, on peduncles or pedicels 

 ranging up to 3 in. long, arranged in a lax terminal bracteate or 

 somewhat leafy terminal corymb about 5 in. in diameter; in- 

 volucral bracts pauciseriate, imbricate, dry, coriaceous, rigid, 

 strigose- hispid on the exposed part of the back, smooth and shining 

 inside, about equally long, the outer ones lanceolate, the inner 

 ones obovate-oblong with a lanceolate ciliate upper part, the 

 innermost (or outer scales of the receptacle) cymbifovm and 

 embracing the outer florets ; flowers golden- yellow, smaller than 

 those of M. Brow7iei ; ray-florets female, about f in. long, 

 uniseriate ; the ligule oval, ^ in. long, minutely tridentate at the 

 apex, puberulous on the back, glabrous on the front, many- 

 nerved ; disk-florets pluriseriate, i in. long, with a regular 

 shortly 5-cleft corolla ; anthers included, black with pale con- 

 nectives and apical ovate appendages, obtuse and minutely 

 sagittate at the base ; style included and about ecpialling the 

 anthers or shortly exserted, bifid, the branches pilose with narrow 

 lanceolate appendages ; achenes angular, somewhat compressed, 

 narrowed towards the base, glabrous, truncate at the apex : 

 pappus not coroniform, consisting of several (10 to 13) unequal, 

 deciduous, rigid, minutely scabrid, ochroleucous arista?, some 

 longer and some shorter than the achene ; I'eceptacle narrow, 

 convex, furnished with scales similar to the inner involucral 

 scales, some nearly flat and subtending, others folded and em- 

 bracing the florets. 



PuNcjo AxDONGO. — In the drier thickets between Quilanga and 

 Luxillo ; fl. Feb. 1857. No. 3556. 



