Dicoina] lxxi. composit.e. 615 



the apex, lanceolate or oblong-linear, erect or adpressed, the outer 

 short, the inner successively longer, some § in. long; corolla 

 tubular, deeply 5-lobed ; the lobes sublinear, narrowed gradually 

 to the scarcely acute apex ; anthers rather shorter than the 

 corolla-lobes, with lanceolate appendages at the apex and long 

 narrow fringed ciliate acute tails at the base ; style included, sub- 

 clavate, notched at the apex ; achenes densely pilose-setulose, 

 ^ in. long ; pappus pluriseriate, wholly setose, ^ to ^ ^^- ^^^S > 

 the setfe whitish, unequally long, plumose. 



HfiLi.A. — In the drier pastures about Lopollo and Mumpulla, 

 abundant ; not yet in ft. Oct. 1859 ; one specimen in fl. and fr. May 

 18G0. No. 3616. 



76. PERDICIUM L. Diss. PL Ear. Afr. p. 22, n. 72 (Dec. 1760). 

 Gerbera Gronov. ex L. Cor. Gen. PI. p. 16 (1737); Benth. & 



Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 497. Gerheria Cass, in Bull. Soc. Philom. 

 1817, p. 34 (Feb.). 



1. P. piloselloides. 



Ariiica piloselloides L., I.e., p. 22, n. 73. Gerheria piloselloides 

 Cass, in Diet. Sc. Nat. xviii. p. 461 (1820); 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. iii. p. 445 (Gerbera) ; O. Hoffm.in Eng. Bot. Jahrb. xv. 

 p. 546 (1893); and in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 35 (1896). 



PuNGO And()X(;<). — A perennial stemless herb, with the habit of a 

 Scorzonera ; root-fibres fieshy, fasciculate ; scape erect ; capitula 

 nodding. In thickets about the prsesidium, sporadic : fl. and fr. Dec. 

 1856. No. 3598. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers white-violaceous in colour. In bushy rocky 

 sparingly herbaceous places near Lopollo at the river : fl. and fr. Nov. 

 and Dec. 1859. No. 3597- The scapes range up to 15 in. long. 



2. P. abyssinicum. 



Gerbera abyssinica Schultz, Bip. ex A, Each. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 458 

 (1847) ; O. & H., I.e., p. 445; O. HofFm. in Engl., I.e., p. 547; and 

 in Bol. Soc. Brot., I.e., p. 185. 



PuN'GO Andoxgo. — A perennial, csespitose, stemless herb ; rhizome 

 becoming rather woody ; scapes erect ; capitula somewhat nodding : 

 flowers yellow. In dense sandy thickets between Pungo Andongo and 

 the river Lutete ; fl.and fr. Oct. 189G. No. 3599. Rootstock perennial, 

 many-headed ; habit almost of Ajmrgia ; flowers golden-yellow; widely 

 csespitose in sandy bushy or wooded places between the pra^sidium and 

 the river Cuanza : fl. and young fr. middle of Dec. 185G. No. 3600. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers yellow. In thinly bushy places along the right 

 bank of the Lopollo river ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3602. In the 

 drier thickets on the right bank of the Lopollo stream ; fl. Dec. 1859. 

 No. 3603. In bushy pastures near Lopollo towards Jilu ; fl. Jan. and 

 Feb. 18G0. Receptacle plane-convex, somewhat alveolate, scattered 

 with a few short teeth. No. 3601, 



Tribe XII.— Cichoeiace.e. 



77. TOLPIS Adans. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 508. 



1. T.fruticosa Schrank,Pl. Ear.Hort.Monac. n. 46 c. tab. (1819). 

 Crepis filiformis Ait. Hort. Kew., edit. 1, iii. p. 128 (1789). 



