Inula] Lxxi. coMPosiTiE. 567 



by the Calumbo road ; fl. June 1858. Only one specimen. Puberulous ; 

 leaves paler beneath, submembranous, sessile. No. 3451. 



Barka do Bengo. — An erect slender annual herb, l| to 2^ ft. high ; 

 stem reddish, branched, patently ramulose ; capitula compact, homo- 

 gamous, yellow ; receptacle convex, tuberculate-papillose. In moist 

 sandy-clayey pastures between Quicuxe and Cacuaco, abundant but 

 only in very few spota ; fl. and fr. beginning of Aug. 1858. No. 3449. 



2. I. glomerata 0. & H., I.e., p. 359; 0. Hoffm., I.e., p. 25. 

 Ambaca. — A handsome perennial plant. 3 to 8 ft. high, and even 



higher, resembling a Phlomis in habit ; stem erect, branched, densely 

 clothed, as well as the leaves and floral involucres, with a white- 

 yellowish felt ; flowers yellowish. In the more elevated mountainous 

 places near Puri-Cacarambola, not abundant, also near Halo on the 

 left bank of the river Lucala ; fl. middle of Oct. 1856. The lower 

 leaves range up to 16 in. long by 6^ in. broad. No. 3453. 



HuiLLA. — In wooded places at the outskirts of the forest among 

 tall herbage, behind Eme in the direction of Ivantala ; a flowering 

 branch collected in Dec. 1859, and a plant with root-leaves (ranging 

 up to 18 in. long) apparently belonging to the same species in Feb. 

 1860. No. 3450. 



3. I. Welwitschii 0. HofFm., I.e. 



HriLLA. — A tall perennial herb, 3 to 5 ft. high, before the develop- 

 ment of the flowers resembling a Verbascum in habit ; radical leaves 

 often 1^ ft. high, tomentose as well as the strictly ereci; stem ; corolla 

 yellow or yellowish, tubular, shortly 5-cleft, the lobes strictly erect ; 

 anther-base acutely tailed ; style bulbous at the base, but little or 

 scarcely exserted, the branches short, obtuse, often cohering ; achene 

 somewhat pilose, without a callus at the base ; pappus uniseriate, 

 setose ; the setae about 15, straight, often quasi-fasciculate at the base. 

 In sparingly bushy pastures between Ferrao da Sola and J^u ; fl. and 

 fr. April and May and end of March 1860. No. 3452. 



4. I. huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A perennial hispid-scaberulous herb, of a yellowish-green colour; 

 stem straight, firm, sulcate-striate, subterete, not winged, pithy, 

 2| to 4 ft. high, densely hairy at the base, corymbosely branched 

 above at the inflorescence, hispid with multicellular hairs ; lower 

 leaves obovate or narrowly oval, rounded or obtusely narrowed 

 and mucronulate at the apex, more or less narrowed or wedge- 

 shaped at the petiolate or subpetiolate base, membranous, rather 

 paler and less hispid beneath, denticulate, 8 to 10 in. long by 

 2^ to 3 in. broad, the radical leaves on petioles of 1 to Ig in. 

 long; the intermediate leaves alternate sessile, more ovate and 

 gradually smaller ; the uppermost leaves alternate lanceolate | to 

 1 in. long ; capitula homogamous, many-flowered, discoid, sub- 

 hemispherical, I to 1 in. in diameter, on unequal pedicels ranging 

 up to 4 in. long, arranged in an open rather few-headed terminal 

 corymbose cyme bracteate (or leafy) especially at the divisions ; 

 bracts like the leaves but smaller ; involucral scales 4- or 5-seriate, 

 scabrid-puberulous at the back at least on the exposed parts, 

 yellowish and rigid except the darker often revolute tips, the 

 inner ones linear-lanceolate, acuminate, equalling the florets. 



