McM'sea] lxxi. composite. 551 



cegyptiaca Ait. Hort. Kew., edit. 1, iii. p. 183 (1789) ; 0. & H., 

 I.e., p. 314. 



Ambeiz.— Quisembo ; fr. Nov. 1853. No. 3429. 



GoLTJNGO Alto.— A herb, 2J to 3^ ft. high, bright green in the 

 living state ; flowers yellowish. In moist places at the outskirts of 

 palm-groves, near Trombeta and Cambondo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. 

 June 1855. No. 3431. In sparingly grassy hilly places near N-delle ; 

 fl. and fr. April and May 1856. No. 3428. No notes. Fr. No. 3426. 

 Herbaceous, 2 to 3 ft. high ; branches crowded ; leaves ligulate- 

 lanceolate, dentate ; capitula globose, straw-coloured. Sobato de 

 Bango ; fr. Dec. 1854. Coll. Carp. 663. 



PuNGO Andosgo. — An annual herb ; stem ascending or sub-erect, 

 2 to 3 ft. high, branched, patently pilose, leafy ; florets pale-yellowish; 

 habit of Erigeron. In wooded bushy sandy places between the 

 prsesidium and Luxillo ; fl. and fr. May 1857. No. 3432. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers yellowish. In the wooded meadows of the Erne, 

 amongst tall herbs ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 3430. On sandy plains 

 between LopoUo and Quipungo, by the roadside near the latter place, 

 sporadic ; fl.-bud, Feb. 1860. No. 3433. 



Of the above Nos. 3430 and 3431 have their leaves pinnati- 

 partite with sublinear lobes, and have therefore been referred by 

 O. Hoffmann in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii., p. 23 (1896) to a variety 

 C. Uneariloha DC. Prodr. v., p. 385 (1836) ; No. 3432 has leaves 

 occupying an intermediate position between this variety and the 

 typical form of the species. No. 3426 has the pedicels of the capitula 

 ranging up to 3 in. long and the achenes nearly glabrous ; it thus 

 approaches C senegalensis Willd. ; the pappus, however, is somewhat 

 reddish. 



3. M. spartioides. 



Gmiyza spartioides 0. Hoffm. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx. p. 224. 



I have not seen the type of Hoffmann's plant, but the descrip- 

 tion of it agrees fairly well with the following, except that the 

 involucral bracts are said to be oval in Hoffmann's species. 



An erect somewhat scabrid perennial herb, li to 2 ft. high, 

 with the habit of a rush ; rootstock more or less creeping, woody ; 

 stems and branches strict, almost leafless, sulcate, angular, rather 

 shining, scattered with short hispid hairs arising from hard 

 thickened bases ; leaves alternate, few, suberect, sublinear, 

 pointed, rather thickened at the sessile base, entire, somewhat 

 hispid-scabrid, ^ to ■!■ in. long ; capitula heterogamous, disciform, 

 hemispheroidal, ^ to ^ in. in diameter, many-flowered, on very 

 short pubescent bracteate pedicels, a few together in small 

 pedunculate clusters arranged in a terminal subcorymbose cyme 

 l^in.in diameter; involucral scales obtuse or subacute, piiberulous 

 on the back, sublinear or linear-oblong, uninerved, pauciseriate, 

 subequal in length, i in. long or a little longer, narrowly sub- 

 scarious and ciliolate on the margin ; bracts on the pedicels few, 

 resembling the involucral scales ; hermaphrodite florets numerous, 

 multiseriate, central, ^ in. long or a Uttle longer ; corolla narrowly 

 funnel-shaped, from a quasi-stipitate base, sessile-glandular out- 

 side, yellow, shortly 5-lobed, those of the female flowers small 

 and slender ; the lobes triangular ; anthers obtuse at the base, 



