Erigeron] lxxi. composite. 54:& 



HuiLLA. — In wooded, sparingly bushy meadows between Catumba 

 and Hay, abundant but seen nowhere else ; fl. and fr. May 1860. 

 No. 3448. 



Allied to E. Grantii Oliv. & Hiern. 



16. MICROGLOSSA DC; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 282. 



1. M. voluMlis DO. Prodr. v. p. 320 (1836) ; 0. & H. in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 309. 



Conyzapyrifolia Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 89(1786). C. voluhilis 

 Wall. List n. 3057 (1828). Psiadia volubilis Baill. Hist. PL viii. 

 p. 300 (1886). M. pyrifoUa 0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. i. p. 353. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A scandent shrublet or an erect shrub with the 

 ultimate branches climbing ; leaves alternate, beneath tomentellous 

 pellucidly reticulate and scattered with little glands ; capitula hetero- 

 gamous ; outer involucral scales obtuse, hispid ; the inner ones longer, 

 smooth, oblong, more or less fimbriate at the apex ; the flower-heads 

 appear yellowish on account of the colour of the involucres ; florets 

 whitish or pale-yellowish ; ray-florets pluriseriate, female, ligulate, 

 filiform, very slender ; hermaphrodite florets, central, few, 1 to 3» 

 tubular, the corolla pretty deeply 5-cleft ; anthers very shortly cordate 

 at the base, with obtuse auricles ; achene obovoid, scarcely obconical- 

 oblong, rather compressed, thinly pilose ; pappus uniseriate, setose ; 

 the setae straight, shortly hispidulous, whitish, beautifully cinnamon- 

 brown, shining ; receptacle obsoletely flmbrillate. In reed-beds by 

 the Delamboa, in the drier places ; fl. and fr. July 1856. No. 3410. 

 An undershrub, 3 to 3J ft. high, sometimes almost sarmentose and' 

 subscandent ; flowers pallid-yellowish or rather whitish. By thickets 

 near Cungunho in Sobato de Bumba ; fl. and fr. end of Sept. 1855. 

 No. 3411. 



Cazengo. — A shrub, 4 ft. high and more, with quite patent branches 

 and whitish flowers tinged with violet. In secondary thickets at the 

 foot of Mount Muxaftlo ; fl. and fr. June 1855. A sort of " MoMu " (?). 

 No. 3412. 



PuNGO Andongo. — No notes. Fl. and fr. No. 3413. 



Bumbo. — A shrub, 3 to 6 ft. high, loosely branched ; the ultimate 

 branchlets occasionally elongated, quasi-scandent ; leaves pellucidly 

 reticulate and punctate ; flowers pallid-whitish or occasionally straw- 

 coloured. In stony wooded places at the base of the mountains of 

 Serra da Chella, near Chao de Chella, sporadic, and between Bumbo 

 and MumpuUa ; sparingly in fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3409. 



2. M. augolensis 0. & H., I.e. 



GoLlTNGO Alto. — A herb, 2 ft. high, with pallid-yellowish flowers. 

 On grassy declivities about the base of the mountains of Serra de Alto 

 Queta, at Sange ; fl. and fr. July 1856. No. 3917. At Quibiie ; fl. 

 and fr. July 1855. No. 3919. 



Zengas do Queta. — An erect herb, 2 to 2J ft. high, with the habit 

 of an Erigeron ; capitula heterogamous ; ray-florets bi- or pluri-seriate, 

 female, with patent linear ligules of a very pallid-sulphur colour ; disk- 

 florets tubular-campanulate, 5-cleft, yellow, the anther-tube exserted. 

 On rather dry declivities among the mountains of the Central Queta ; 

 fl. and fr. 15 Sept. 1856. No. 3918. 



This plant is a robust herb with a woody rootstock ; it has usually 

 been described as an erect shrub of 3 to 5 ft. 



