Jcmmea] lxxi. coMro.siT.i=:. 589 



Tkibp: VI. — Hklknioid.?-:. 

 53. JAUMEA Pers. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 397. 



1. J. angolensis O. HolFm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 178 (1893) 

 A xiii. p. 32 (189G). 



./. composltaruni Klatt. in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, vii. 

 p. 103 (1892), non Benth. & Hook. f. 



HuiLLA. — A perennial herb ; rhizome furnished with cylindrical 

 tubercles ; stem solitary, erect, U to 3A ft. high, simple or branched 

 in the upper part, the branches dichotomous or trichotomous ; leaves 

 pellucid-punctate, curiously papillose ; flowers saffron-coloured. In 

 marshy places among tall bushes along the Lopollo river, in company 

 with Epiluh'mm hirsutuin L., a Rumcf, a Typlui, and species of Poly- 

 (junum ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3963. 



54. WELWITSCHIELLA 0. HofFm. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfani. 

 iv. 5, p. 390 (1894). 



1. W. neriifolia 0. Hoffm., I.e., p. 391, and in Bol. Soc. Brot. 

 xiii. p. 31 (189G). 



HuiLLA. — A rough, strictly erect, perennial herb, with pellucid- 

 punctate leaves and yellow flowers. In wooded meadows about the 

 lake of Ivantala ; fl. and young fr. end of Feb. 18G0. Xo. 3703. 



55. TAGETES Tournef., L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 41 1. 

 1. T. patula L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 887 (1753). 



GoLUNCio Alto.— In Sobato de Quilombo ; fl. and fr. Jan, 1855. 

 No. 3967. 



PuMio AND()N(iO.— In public streets in the pnesidium ; frequently 

 wild and occurring almost everywhere by the villages both of the 

 settlers and of the negroes, in all probability introduced long ago by 

 the missionaries ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. Xo. 3966. 



Tribe VII. — Anthemide.e. 



56. ATHANASIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 416. 

 1. A. schistostephiodes Hiern, sp. n. 



A I'igid perennial plant, 4 to 5 ft. high ; stem strictly erect, 

 leafy and unbranclied for a considerable length, minutely puberu- 

 lous or obsoletely felted, terete, branched near the apex ; leaves 

 alternate, deeply impari-pinnatifid, obovate in outline, rounded 

 about the apex, narrowed to the shortly quasi-petiolate or sub- 

 sessile base, subglabrous and minutely punctulate above, softly 

 felted beneath with short curly almost glandular haii-s, 1 to 2 in. 

 long by 'i to Ii in. broad; the lateral lobes more or less oblong, 

 obtuse, minutely subapiculate, undivided or some of them with an 

 inferior lobule, not denticulate ; capitula subhemisphei'ical, | to 

 ]r in. in diameter, homogamous, discoid, many-flowered, on rather 

 rigid bracteate pedicels ranging up to \\ in. long, arranged 5 to 7 

 together in somewhat tomentellous rather dense corymbose cymes 

 |- to Ii in. in cUameter terminating the branches; bracts linear, 

 acute, 1^ to ^ in. long ; involucral scales imbricate, subtriseriate, 

 linear-oval, i to J- in. long, obtuse, puberulous and somewhat 

 thickened along the back, scarious and shortly incised or fringed 

 on the upper margins, somewhat concave ; flowers ^ to ^''^ in. 



