588 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Bidens 



scales sub-biseriate, lanceolate-oblong, subobtuse, the outer ones 

 about f in. long, the inner ones about h in. long ; flowers golden- 

 yellow ; the ray-florets numerous, nearly 1 in. long, female or 

 some hermaphrodite, apparently barren, with linear-oblong lined 

 ligules about ^ in. long clawed at the base ; disk-florets pluri- 

 seriate, hermaphrodite, fertile, about ^ in. long ; the corolla 

 tubular, regular, about ~ in. long, shortly 5-lobed, rather abruptly 

 contracted for the lowest third part from the insertion of the 

 filaments, the lobes lanceolate-triangular ; anthers with lance- 

 shaped exserted appendages at the apex, obtuse at the base ; 

 filaments pale-yellow, shorter than the anthers, abruptly thickened 

 and orange-coloured near the apex ; style-branches exserted, 

 spreading rather beyond the breadth of the corolla, flattening 

 towards the apex with a triangular appendage or tip; ovary 

 compressed, linear-oblong, somewhat ciliolate on the edges, ciliate- 

 setulose around the apex, otherwise glabrous, tipped with 2 lateral 

 erect retrorsely barbed aristfe about i in. long. 



PuxGO AxDoxGO. — In sandy bushy places near Quibinde, not far 

 from the river Cuije ; fl. March 1857. A unique specimen. No. 3529. 



A drawing of the specimen in the study set exists in the British 

 Museum, but the scales of the receptacle are not shown, and there- 

 fore the determination of the genus is uncertain. 



52. CHRYSANTHELLUM Rich.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. 

 p. 389. 



1. C. procumbens Pers. Syn. PI. ii. p. 471 (1807); O. & H. in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 395. 



Anthemis americana L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 895 (1753), non Mutis. 

 Bidens ajnifolia L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10, ii. p. 1203 (1759). Verhesina 

 miUica L. Sp. PL, edit. 2, p. 1273 (1763), non Sieber. 



GoLUXc;o Ai/J'o. — An annual herb, at first erect with one or few 

 capitula, afterwards prostrate, much branched with the basal branchlets 

 prolonged and very crowded ; flowers yellow, slightly aromatic. In 

 rather dry sunny shortly grassy situations at Sange, in neglected 

 gardens, etc. ; the erect form in Dec. 1854, becoming prostrate in July 

 1855 ; fl. and fr. No. 3957. Resembling a fine specimen of Solira 

 nasturtiifoVia DC. Seeds, August 1855. CoLi>. Caki'. 668. A dwarf, 

 much branched, annual weed, with yellow flowers, like the Anthemis 

 aurea DC. At Sange, fr. 9 July 1855. Coll. Carp. 683. 



Cazexgo. — A small annual herb with the habit of a dwarf Chrysan- 

 themum or Tagctes, and with small yellow flowers. In poor, sparingly 

 grassy places at the river Luinha ; fr. Dec. 1854. (Mixed with other 

 achenes.) Coll. Carp. 669. 



PuNGO And(jn(K). — An annual herb, with the habit of Anthemis; 

 the early leaves spreading in a stellate manner ; the central stems 

 straight, the lateral ones ascending ; flowers yellow ; achenes without 

 pappus, truncate, ciliolate on the narrow margins, In sandy sunny 

 situations, and in places neglected after cultivation, near the pra3sidium; 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1857. No. 3958. 



HuiLLA. — In low-lying pastures flooded during the rainy season, 

 near Humpata ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1859 and April 1860. No. 3956. 



