614 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Dicoma 



5. D. anomala Sond. in Linnsea xxiii, p. 71 (1850) [anomalum) ; 

 0. & H., I.e., p. 443. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Habit of a Carlina ; rhizome very thick, 2 to 3 in. 

 in diameter, spongy ; stems prostrate ; florets purplish, much shorter 

 than the involucre. On the northern sunny slopes of the mountains 

 of Alto Queta ; fl. and fr. beginning of June 1855. No. 3607- Root- 

 stock woody, thick, many-headed ; stems prostrate-ascending. On the 

 dry more elevated declivities of the mountains of the central Queta, 

 Carengue ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1855. No. 3613. On the rocky slopes of 

 Alta Queta among short grass; fl. and fr. June 1856. No. 3614. 

 Native name " Haca," which is also used in this district for Pleiotaxis 

 rugosa: see Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 209 (1884). 



Var. karaguensis 0. & H., I.e. ; O. Hoflfm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. 

 X. p. 185 (1893). D. karaguensis Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 

 p. 103, t. 70 (1873). 



HuiLLA. — In open gravelly pastures near Mumpulla; fl. and fr. 

 Oct. 1859. No. 3610. A rather rigid herb ; stems numerous ; leaves 

 spreading, green above, whitish beneath ; florets rosy, 5-cleft, with 

 erect patent-lobes revolute at the tips. In sandy thickets near the 

 Monino; fl. Feb. 1860. No. 3611. A perennial herb, with the habit 

 of the caulescent Carlince, a foot high ; rootstock thick, woody, several- 

 headed ; stems 2 to 5, erect ; branches corymbose ; capitula terminal ; 

 florets tubular, purple ; corolla-lobes linear, circinate-revolute ; anthers 

 paleaceous ; style rather thick, straight, cylindrical, simple, scarcely 

 bifid ; stigma capitate, scarcely or slightly bifid or emarginate at the 

 apex ; receptacle flat, deeply alveolate. In hilly bushy sandy places 

 near Lopollo, plentiful ; fl. and fr. March 1860. No. 3612. 



6. D. plantaginifolia 0. Iloffm. in Engl., I.e., p. 546. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A perennial herb; radical leaves adpressed to 

 the ground, the flowers unfortunately not yet developed, nor even the 

 stem. In bushy pastures at the banks of the river Cuanza, sparingly ; 

 in very young fl.-bud March 1857. Apparently this species, of which 

 I have not seen a type specimen. No. 3615. 



7. D. nana Welw. ms, in herb. 



A dwarf perennial rigid plant, about 2 in. high; rootstock 

 somewhat woody and prjemorse, giving oflf numerous cord-like 

 fibres, simple or divided at the apex ; stem very abbreviated, less 

 than 1 in. long, suffrutescent, simple and erect or divided with 

 very short diverging branches, clothed with the clasping leaf- 

 bases or their remains ; leaves crowded, obovate, shortly cuspidate 

 or rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped towards the quasi-petiolate 

 clasping base, rigidly subherbaceous, subentire, minutely toothed, 

 3- or 5-nerved at or near the base and 3-nerved rather above the 

 base, closely reticulate greenish subglabrous and minutely glan- 

 dular-scaly above, whitish with appressedly cottony felt beneath, 

 1|- to 3 in. long by ^ to 1|^ in. broad, more or less spreading; 

 capitula broadly campanulate, 1^ in. long, many-flowered, appa- 

 rently homogamous, terminal or subterminal and axillary or 

 lateral, sessile, solitary or approximated; involucre 1 to l|^in. long ; 

 involucral scales multiseriate, imbricate, dryly coriaceous, rigid, 

 with subscarious lateral margins, glabrous, shining, pungent at 



