^S'onchus] Lxxi. coMPOsiT/E. 623 



hemispherical elevation, on which the achene is seated, in each 

 depression. In marshy beds of reeds and reed-maces on the right 

 bank of the river Cuango and at the banks of the stream Quiapoze, 

 plentiful, flowering from Octol>er to January ; Varzea do Isidro, 

 fl. and fr. 20 Oct. 18o5. The achenes are longitudinally ribbed, but 

 not transversely rugulose. No. 3640- 



2. S. Schweinfurthii O. ct 11. ii:i01iv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 458. 

 Goi.rxcio Alto. — ^A glaucescent, erect or decumbent herb, 3 to 4 ft. 



high ; foliage variable. In damp palm-groves near Bango ; fr. May 

 185G. Capitnla sub.solitai'y. No. 3645- In similar situations in 

 Sobato de Bumba ; 11. and fr. Oct. ISoo. No. 3646. An elegant herb, 

 3 to 4 ft. high or more ; flowers jiale yellow. In palm-groves near 

 Bango Aquitamba ; 11. July LsrM). No. 3647- No notes ; fr. No. 3643. 



Var. violaceus. Flowers bluish-purple or violet-coloured. 



HuiLLA. — A herb 4 to G ft. high. In moist herbaceous places, not 

 far from the river Quipumpunhime, plentiful but nearly all the 

 specimens damaged by flood ; fl. and fr. Jan. 18G0. No. 3649. 



3. S. FischeriO. HofTm. in. Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr., C, p. 421 (1895). 

 Lactuca Welwitschii Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxix. p, 30 (1891). 

 PuNGO Andongo. — An annual, very milky herb, with the habit of 



a Lactuca ; florets yellowish. In the gravelly beds of a dried-up 

 stream in the pra3sidium near Catete, sparingly ; fl. and fr. April 

 1857. No. 3661. An annual herb, root swelling, milky, very bitter ; 

 scapes 2 ft. high, not uncommonly turning purple as also do the 

 obovate or oblong radical leaves ; florets sulphur-yellow ; achenes 

 compressed, ribbed, the ribs not transversely rugose. In a sandy 

 bushy part of the open forest between the pra^sidium and Luxillo, 

 plentiful but seen only in one spot ; fl. and fr. beginning of May 

 1857. The scapes are either solitary or in pairs. No. 3662. 



I have not seen the type of 0. Hoffman's species, which was 

 founded on a plant from Usula-Usiha in Mas.sailand. Elliot describes, 

 I.e., this species as perennial, and includes under it a plant of his own 

 gathering from Fort Dauphin in Madagascar. The following Nos. 

 should be compared with this species : — 



G()LrN(i() Alto. — A herb, G to 12 in. high ; root thick, milky, 

 perennial ; leaves radical, glaucescent, rosulate ; flowers whitish. In 

 hilly rather dry sunny places between Trombeta and Camboudo ; fl. 

 and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 3632. 



Amdaca. — A herb, apparently perennial, but flowering in its first 

 year ; root branched, cylindrical, vertical, several-headed ; radical 

 leaves obovate, rosulate ; stems erect, much branched, sparingly and 

 only at the base leafy ; flowers yellowish. In bushy pastures between 

 Halo and Zambe ; fl. and fr. Oct. 185G. No. 3634. 



HuiLL.v. — Flowers yellowish. In varzeas (meadows) along the 

 banks of the Lopollo stream, plentiful but very quickly disappearing ; 

 fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 3664. 



4. S. Elliotianus. 



Dianthoseris sp., Scott Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 84 

 (1894). Lactuca nana Baker in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 17. Cf. 

 S. names 0. Hoffm. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C, p. 421 (1895); 

 non Sond. (1865). 



A.MBACA. — A perennial herb, \\ to 3 in. high ; rhizome 1 to 2 in. 

 ihick, milky, densely shaggy tomentose at its crown, many-headed ; 



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