Gongrothamnus] Lxxi. compusit.e. 593 



uniseriate, sordid-yellowish, with a few outer short setae and 

 numerous inner rigid hispidulous-scabrid setfe 1 in. long ; receptacle 

 small, convex, furnished with small short unequal tumid scales. 



MossAMEDES. — On rocky declivities between Pomangala and Quitibe, 

 also at Caldari do Inferno ; fl. and fr. June 18(10. No. 3270. 



HriLLA. — A small shrub, abundant but nearly everywhere without 

 its leaves ; neither flowers nor leaves seen except on one plant. By 

 thickets between MumpuUa and Nene, not uncommon. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 3266. 



Bumbo. — A little shrub, at the time of gathering leafless and 

 inelegant. By thickets near Bumbo ; fr. Oct. 1859. Apparently this 

 species. No. 3264. 



With this genus, which has been reduced by O. Hoffmann in Engl. 

 & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 5 p. 126 (188'J) to the section 

 Decaneurum of ViTitun'/a^ should be carefully compared Autunesia 

 O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x., p. 178 (1893) ; I have not seen an 

 authentic specimen of the latter. 



The following two Nos. perhaps belong to different species of 

 Gongrothammts : — 



HuiLLA. — A shrub, almost leafless at the time of gathering, with 

 only one branch seen in fruit ; branchlet terete, pallid, felted with 

 short thick whitish closely set hairs ; leaves alternate, the young ones 

 crowded on the lateral shoots, oval, obtuse at both ends but apiculate 

 at the apex, denticulate-repand, shortly petiolate, subcoriaceous, 

 clothed on both faces with pallid closely-set short almost scaly hairs, 

 about 1 in. long by h in. broad ; lateral veins 4 or 5 on each side of 

 the midrib, starting at a wide angle ; infructescence on short lateral 

 shoots, dense, hemispherical, 1 to H in. hi diameter ; capitula 

 apparently homogamous, about 12-flowered, on unequal tomenteUous 

 pedicels rangmg up to f in. long ; involucral scales subtriseriate, 

 oblong, obtuse, uninerved, flat or nearly so, somewhat hairy on the 

 back, the innermost ones ^ in. long, the outer ones successively shorter; 

 receptacle small, at length somewhat convex, puberulous, not pale- 

 aceous ; achenes narrowly obovoid-oblong, brownish, clothed with 

 pale hairs, longitudinally 8- to 10-ribbed, J- in. long, surmounted with a 

 pallid setose pappus j in. long ; the setas sub-biseriate, densely 

 setulose, the outer few and short. Between MumpuUa and Nene. 

 Oct. 1859. No. 4001. 



HuiLLA.— No notes. In fr. No. 3699. 



62. CRASSOCEPHALUM Moench, Meth. PI. p. 516 (1794). 

 Gi/nura Car^a. in Diet. Se. ISTat. xxxiv. p. 391 (1825); Benth. tt 

 Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 445. 



1. C. cernuum Moench, I.e. 



Senecio ruhens Jacq. Hort. Vindob. iii. p. 50, t. 98 (1777). 

 S. cernuus L. f. Suppl. PL p. 370 (1781). Gynura czrnua Benth. 

 in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 437 (1849); 0. t II. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. iii. p. 402. 



Var. a. rubens. Flowers violet-rosy or rose-coloureil. 



GoLUNOO Ai.TO. — An annual, bright-green herb, 2 to 3 ft. high ; 

 the peduncles of the capitula nodding at the apex. In damp 

 herbaceous places by rivulets, mixed with the blue-flowered variet}' ; 



