566 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Athrixia 



leaves linear-spathulate or sublinear, alternate, often crowded 

 and tending to spread or to curve outwards, pointed, sessile, 

 usually very narrowly decurrent, entire, densely scaberulous, 

 uninerved, |^ to 1 in. long, yellowish- green on both faces; the 

 margins narrowly revolute ; capitula broadly campanulate, many- 

 ilowered, heterogamous, disciform, numerous, pedunculate, |^ to ^ 

 in. broad, terminating the branches, erect ; peduncles erect or 

 ascending, scaberulous, ranging up to about f in. long, usually 

 bearing one or a few bracts similar to but smaller than the 

 leaves, rather slender; involucral scales multiseriate, narrowly 

 linear-lanceolate, acute and attenuate, the inner rows glabrous 

 or slightly puberulous on the back, vininerved chartaceous pallid, 

 about J in. long, erect, the outer rows successively shorter 

 puberulous on the back, more or less spreading or with recurved 

 tips ; flowers multiseriate, the outer rows female barren filiform 

 inconspicuous, the corolla of the inner rows tubular, slender, sub- 

 cylindrical, narrowly funnel-shaped upwards, i in. long, shortly 

 5-lobed, of a whitish-violet colour, tender ; anthers tailed at the 

 base, produced at the apex in lanceolate appendages; style- 

 branches of the central flowers tender, exserted, truncate at the 

 apex, not appendaged; those of the barren flowers narrow, 

 shorter ; young achenes of the hermaphrodite flowers small, 

 nearly glabrous, with a few short scattered setulse ; pappus 

 white, uniseriate, ^ in. long, the setse few, nearly smooth, 

 minutely scabrous above, very slender, fragile ; receptacle 

 depresso-oonvex, naked. 



HuiLLA. — In stony pastures between MumpuUa and Nene ; fl. and 

 young fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3416. 



This is nearly related to A . capeiisis Ker. 



The two following Nos. belong to different species ; they should be 

 compared with Athrixia, but the specimens are too young for de- 

 termination : — 



PuNGO Andongo. — In sandy-earthy moist meadows near Lombe ; 

 not yet in fl. March 1857. No. 3378. 



HuiLLA. — In rather poor sandy wooded meadows between Lopollo 

 and Monino ; not yet in fl. beginning of April 1860. No. 3420. 



32. INULA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 330. 

 Pentanema Cass, in Bull. Soc. Philom. (May) 1818, p. 74. 

 Vicoa Cass, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 1, xvii. p. 418 (1829); Benth. 

 & Hook, f.. I.e., p. 334. Bojeria DO. Prodr. v. p. 94 (1836); 

 Benth. & Hook, f., I.e., p. 3^1. 



1. I. indica L. Sp. PL, edit. 2, p. 1237 (1763) ; 0. Hoffm. in 

 Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 26 (1896). 



Vicoa am-iculata Cass, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 1, xvii. p. 418 (1829); 

 <). & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 362. V. indica DC. in 

 Wight, Contrib. Bot. Ind. p. 10 (1834). V. aurita DC. Prodr. 

 V. p. 474 (1836). V. appendiculata DC. Prodr., I.e. 



LoANDA. — An erect annual herb, with deep-yellow, homogamous 

 capitula. In marshy clayey places, between Bemposta and Camama, 



