568 Lxxi. coMPOSiTiE. [Inula 



lacerate-dentioulate at the apex, yellow, about f in. long, the 

 outer ones successively shorter, broader, densely ciliate and less 

 acute or subulate, the outerniost lanceolate- or ovate-oblong, sub- 

 obtuse, about ^in. long ; florets hermaphrodite, f in. long; corollas 

 all narrowly tubular, yellow, very shortly 5-cleft, the tube ^ ih. 

 long, glabrous, the teeth deltoid; anthers shortly produced at 

 the apex, the base tailed, the tails long, acutely fringed at the 

 tips ; the anthers of the marginal florets apparently sterile ; style 

 cylindrical, glabrous, its branches erect, rather rigid, linear 

 spathulate, rounded at the apex, sparingly puberulous ; achenes 

 narrowly cylindrical, -^ in. long, many-ribbed, scattered with 

 thin hairs, basal areola oblique ; pappus of a pale-straw colour, 

 equalling the corolla, nearly uniseriate, the setse subequal, densely 

 but very shortly setulose, the setulse few about the base of the 

 setse ; receptacle convex, not paleaceous, scattered with short 

 acicular setse. 



HuiLLA. — In wooded meadows, among tall herbage, on the left 

 bank of river near Catumba in the Lopollo country, at 5000 ft. 

 elevation ; fl. and young fr. May 1860. No. 3938. 



This plant much resembles in habit Bojeria speciosa DC. 



5. I. cnauzensis. 



Porphyrostemma cuanzensis 0. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 

 p. 174 (1893). Vernonia cuanzensis Welw. ex 0. Hoffm., I.e. 



Pdngo Andonso. — An annual erect herb, more or less branched 

 or nearly simple ; branches erect, rather strict or ascending, mono- 

 cephalous ; flowers purplish. In sandy wooded places from Caghuy 

 towards Sansamanda at the river Cuanza ; fl. and fr. beginning of 

 Aprill857. No. 3300. 



The capitula are discoid and heterogamous, with the pappus uni- 

 seriate straw-coloured and setose in both kinds of florets ; the 

 setse of the pappus are 5 in the case of the female florets and 7 or 8 

 on the hermaphrodite florets. 



33. PEGOLETTIA Cass. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 334. 



1. P. senegalensis Cass, in Diet. Sc. Nat. xxxviii. p. 230(1825); 

 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, p. 361 ; J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. 

 Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 192 (1852). 



MossAMEDES. — In Sandy places on the sides of the mountains near 

 Quipola ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 3934. An annual, erect herb, a 

 foot high, with several branches towards the apex ; florets tubular, 

 yellow ; acbenes with pappus and many deep furrows. At the Rio 

 do Sal along the base of Serra de Montes Negros ; fl. and fr. 13 Aug. 

 1859. No. 3935. An annual herb about 8 in. high ; stem ascending, 

 virgately branched towards the apex ; florets straw-coloured ; style- 

 branches short, erect, lanceolate-subclavate ; achenes almost glabrous, 

 marked with several ribs. In sandy bushy places at the mouth of the 

 river Gira,ul ; fl. 19 July 1859. Only one specimen. No. 3936. 



Cape de Veede Islands. — An annual herb, 3 in. high ; anther- 

 base tailed. On the sandy hills of Praia de Mindello in the island of 

 St. Vincent, sparingly ; only one specimen in fr. and a few fl. Jan. 

 1861. A dwarf form. No. 3408. 



