Crocodilodes] lxxi. cojiposit.e. 609 



HuiLLA. — A plant 4 to 5 ft. high, branched towards the apex, 

 apparently perennial ; flowers yellow. At Ferrilo da Sola towards 

 Catumba ; fl. and fr. Feb. and May 18G0. No. 3711. The leaves 

 range up to 4 in. long. 



4. C. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect herb, 3 to 4 ft. high and more, branched near the top, 

 apparently annual ; stem strict, purplish, sulcate-striate, sub- 

 terete, pithy, moi'e or less thinly clothed as well as the short 

 ascending branches, with a soft fugitive white floccose cotton, leafy 

 throughout ; leaves alternate, narrowly elliptical, bristle-pointed 

 at the apex, cuneate or the upper ones obtuse at the sessile or 

 subsessile base, green scabrid and scattered above Avith short 

 close-lying pimple-based ligid hairs, whitish felted beneath, not 

 lobed, 2 to 5 in. long by I to 1 in. broad, not decurrent, the 

 margin biserrulate with all the teeth small and terminating in 

 setaceous straight bristles ; capitula hemispherical, heterogamous, 

 radiate, l\ to 2| in. in diameter, usually subgeminate on un- 

 equal short whitish-felted pedicels of | to 1 in, long, arranged 

 in several-headed corymbose terminal cymes of about 4 to 6 in. 

 in diameter ; common peduncle | to 6 in long ; involucral scales 

 jjluriseriate, spinous-toothed with the prickles patent and glabrous, 

 thinly white-felted on the back, connate near the base ; the outer 

 ones siibfoliaceous, linear-lanceolate or including the nearly 

 sti-aight rigid acute prickles ovate in outline, about f in. long; 

 flowers of a straw-yellow colour; ray-florets uniseriate, neuter, 

 about an inch long, styleless; the ligule linear, 5 -nerved ; the 

 ovary rudimentary, surmounted by a few unequal fringed paleae ; 

 disk-florets multiseriate, hermaphrodite, fertile, about h in. long, 

 tubular; the corolla 5-fid, with linear-oblong lobes, the lobes 

 thickened along the valvate margins ; the anthers nearly equalling 

 the coi-olla, shortly appendaged at the apex, shortly caudate at 

 the base ; style branches rather long, exserted, somewhat pointed, 

 minutely papillose, not appendaged ; ovary densely clothed with 

 whitish silky hairs, embedded in the pits of the fleshy receptacle, 

 rather short ; the pits of the receptacle toothed on the margin 

 with unequal paleaceous acute teeth ; pappus paleaceous ; the 

 palese about 20, biseriate, oblanceolate ^jj in. long, ciliolate-fringed, 

 obtuse, silky-setulose on the back, subequal. 



PuxGO Andoxgo. — In sandy thickets to the west of the presidium 

 and near Quitage, not uncommon : fi. Jan. 1857. No. 3713. 



This species is nearly related to C. Spekeana (Oliv.) ; it has been 

 collected by Capello, n. 19, in the interior of Angola, where the local 

 name is " Guicualo " ; it differs from C. angolemis (0. Hoffm.) by its 

 herbaceous annual habit. 



5. C. gracilis. 



Berhheya gracilis 0. Hoffm., ?.c., p. 35. 



HuiLLA. —Flowers sulphur-coloured. In sunny rocky mountainous 

 parts of Morro de Lopollo, plentiful ; 11. and fr. end of April 1860. 

 No. 3710. 



