514 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Bthtdia, 



Ambaca. —In damp places on the left bank of the river Caringa ; 

 fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3384. An erect, branched herb, 2 to 4 ft. 

 high, with purple or violet-rosy flowers. In bushy places by swamps 

 near Izanga and at the banks of the river Lucala, sparingly ; fl. Oct. 

 1856. No. 3385. , 



PuNGO Andongo.— A. herb, 2 to 2^ ft. high, with a ruddy stem and 

 pretty violet-coloured flowers. By streams in Sobato Cabangas ; fl. and 

 fr. 11 Jan. 1857. No. 3386. 



HuiLLA. — Capitnla corymbose, homogamous ; corolla violet-purple, 

 tubular, 5-cleft to the middle, sub-campanulate at the throat, with 

 oblong-lanceolate obtuse lobes ; style relatively large, with lanceolate 

 rather compressed pointed densely puberulous branches. At the 

 herbaceous margins of streams between Lopollo and Monino ; fl. 

 and fr. Jan. 1860. No. 3381. Flowers purple. In marshy places 

 between the lake of Ivantaia and Quilengues, along the banks of the 

 river Cacolobar ; fl. and fr. end of Feb. 1860. No. 3382. Two feet 

 high ; leaves simple ; capitula corymbose, purplish. Same place and 

 date. Coll. Carp. 689. 



2. E. mouocephala Hiern, sp. n. 



A nearly glabrous perennial herb ; stem slender, rooting and 

 often branched at the base, ascending or erect and simple above 

 the base, leafy except towards the apex and base; leaves 

 alternate, linear, obtuse, sessile, mostly erect or ascending, entire, 

 ^ to IJ in. long, apparently somewhat succulent in the living 

 state and wrinkled in the dry ; capitula campanulate, i to |^ in. 

 in diameter (exclusively of the coroUas), many-flowered, solitary, 

 terminating the stems, on a naked peduncle of 1|^ to 3f in. 

 long ; involucral bracts pauciseriate, lanceolate or oblong, sub- 

 obtuse, adpressed, imbricate, unequal, slightly puberulous on the 

 back or the upper ones ciliolate, the inner ones the longest, 

 somewhat purple-coloured about the tip ; corollas about ^ to y in. 

 long, all tubular, regular, narrowly obovoid-oblong, somewhat 

 compressed, shortly 5-lobed, purple ; anther-base obtuse ; style- 

 branches exserted,ipubervilous, rather long, tapering, acute ; achene 

 (young) oblong, truncate at the apex, slightly narrower towards 

 the truncate base, compressed or somewhat angular, glabrous, -—^ in. 

 long, with a few indistinct ribs ; pappus 0. 



HuiLLA. — At the Lopollo river ; fl. and young fr. Feb. 1860. 

 No. 3982. 



2. GUTENBEEGIA Schultz Bip. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 ii. p. 224. 



1. G. polycephala 0. & H. ex Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 

 p. 95 (1876), and in OHv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 264. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Flowers purple. In sandy thickets near Sansa- 

 manda, Feb. 1857 ; also in thickets between Condo and Quisonde on 

 rather dry sandy clay, March 1857 ; fl. and fr. No. 3995. An erect 

 branched herb, 1| ft. high, often becoming woody at the base and thus 

 biennial ; flower-heads small, purple. In sandy wooded places on the 

 left bank of the river Lutete, abundant ; fl. and f r. Jan. 1857. No. 3996. 

 An erect annual herb, 2 to 3J ft. high, with violet-purple flowers. In 

 moist sandy thickets on the left bank of the Luxillo stream, abundant 

 there but most specimens not yet in fl. ; April 1857. No. 3997. 



