574 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Sphacophyllum 



caudate at the base, the tails setiform ; style-branches rather short, 

 just exserted, spreading, rather compressed, narrowly subspathu- 

 late, rounded at the apex, not appendaged ; achenes (not ripe) 

 somewhat compressed, about 4-ribbed, oblong, -^^ in. long, setulose ; 

 pappus only represented by a ring of setulse or minute subulate 

 scales at the top of the achenes ; receptacle convex, bearing scales 

 about equalling the involucral scales and embracing the florets. 



HuiLLA. — On dry hills among short grasses, near Mumpulla, rather 

 rare ; fl. and young fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3415. 



The following No. is very doubtfully placed under this species : — 

 Htjilla. — In rather dry pastures, flooded in summer, near Empalanca; 

 after fl. and fr. end of Jan. 1860. No. 4064. 



38. ANISOPAPPUS Hook. & Am. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. 

 ii. p. 339. 



1. A. angolensis 0. Hoffm. in Henr. Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 176 

 (1893) and xiii. p. 28 (1896). 



HuiLLA.— Flowers yellowish. At Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. 

 No. 3973. 



39. ODONTOSPERMUM Keck.; Benth.&Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 340. 



1. 0. Vogelii Webb in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 140 (1849) ; J. A 

 Schmidt, Beitr. Fi. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 194 (1852). 



Cape dk Verde Islands. — A widely OKspitose shrublet, scarcely a 

 foot high, with the habit of the alpine species of Artemisia. On the 

 slopes of Monte Verde, in the island of St. Vincent ; withered fl. or 

 corollas fallen or fragmentary, end of Aug. 1853. No. 3504. 



TeIBE V. HELIANTHOIDE.a;. 



40. AMBROSIA Tournef., L., Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 354. 

 1. A. senegalensis DO. Prodr. v. p. 525 (1836) ; 0. & H. in 



Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 371. 



Peince's Island.— a sufEruticose herb, 1^ to 2 ft. high, in habit 

 resembling an Artemisia. In the drier sunny part of the island, not 

 far from the sea, at Bahia de Santo Antonio, sparingly ; fl. Sept. 1853. 

 No. 3952. 



41. SIGESBECKIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 359 



(Siegesbeokia). 



1. S. orientaUs L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 900 (1753) ; O. & H in 

 Oliv. PL Trop. Afr. iii. p. 372 ; O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot xiii 

 ■p. 28 (1896). 



GOLTJNGO Alto.— An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high. In moist places at 

 the outskirts of forests near Menha-Lula ; fl. and fr. Feb. and April 

 1856. No. 3945. A strictly erect branched herb. At the borders of 

 forests along the banks of the river Delfimboa, in masses but in only 

 a few places ; fl. and fr. May 1855. No. 3946. An annual erect herb 

 1 to 3| ft. high ; branches opposite the leaves ; flowers small yellow' 

 Some unilabiate trifid florets were seen with obtuse deflexed lobes and 

 those of the disk 5-clef t not tubular. By the road towards Menha-Lula 



