Sigesbeckia] lxxi. coMPOsiTiF. 575 



at the edges of thickets and forests, sporadic ; fl. and fr. July 1855. 

 The plant is abundant in the interior of western Africa. No. 3947. 



Cazexgo.— An ashy annual herb, 1 to 2^ ft. high ; stem erect ; 

 flowers small, yellowish ; florets labiate trifld ; aohenes of the ray-florets 

 glandular. At Caoulo ; fr. June 1855. Coll,. Carp. 686. 



42. ECLIPTA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 361. 



1. E. erecta L. Mant. ii. p. 286 (1771). 



Verbesina alba L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 902 (1753). V. prostrata L. 

 Sp. PI., I.e. E. punctata L. Mant., I.e. E. alba Hassk. PI. Jav. 

 Rar. p. 528 (1848); O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 373; 

 O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 28 (1896). Ecliptica alba 

 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 334 (1891). 



Sierra Leoxe. — In mountainous pastures about Freetown ; fl. and 

 young fr. Sept. 1853. No. 3971. 



Barra do Bexgo. — An erect, much branched, annual or biennial 

 herb, with white flowers. In swampy places near Panda, at the river 

 Bengo ; fr. Sept. 1857. Coll. Carp, 680. 



Loanda. — An annual, much branched herb, with whitish capitula ; 

 in drying-up marshes it occasionally becomes biennial or even persists 

 for three years. By marshes about Imbondeiro dos Lobos and near 

 Teba, plentiful ; fl. and fr. June 1858. No. 3931. 



GoLXiXGO Alto. — About marshes near Undella ; fl. andfr. Dec. 1855 

 No. 3932. 



Pkixce's Islaxd.— By streams near Bahia de S. Antonio ; fl. and fr. 

 Sept. 1853. No. 3930. 



Var. macrophylla (Welw. ms. in Herb.). 



An erect, adpressedJy bispidulous herb, 2 to 3 ft. high ; leaves 

 elliptical, ranging up to 5 in. long by If in. broad or more, 2 or 3 

 times as long as the peduncles, distantly and coarsely dentate- 

 serrate ; flowers white ; achenes nearly bald except the apical 

 areola, obtusely tuberculate-verrucose. 



Goluxgo Alto. — In damp parts of Quilombo-Quiacatubia ; fl. and fr. 

 Feb. 1855. Only one specimen. No. 3929. 



43. SCLEROCARPUS Jacq.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 364. 



1. S. africanus Jacq. Ic. PI. Rar. i. p. 17, t. 176(1781—1786); 

 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 374 ; 0. Hoffm. in Bol. 

 Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 28 (1896). 



OoLL'XGO Alto. — A herb, 2^ to 4 ft. high ; stem straight, purplish, 

 roughly pilose, branched upwards ; flowers yellow, axillary. In 

 secondary thickets by the Ambaca road ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1855. 

 No. 3940. Flowers yellowish. At the outskirts of forests near the 

 river Cate ; fl. and fr. March 1856. No. 3942. An annual, erect, 

 branched herb, 1 to 2 or even up to 4 ft. high ; leaves not always 

 alternate ; capitula heterogamous ; flowers yellow ; ligules of the ray- 

 florets few, 3 or 4, with a slender tube and an ovate-rounded or 

 oboordate lamina more or less deeply cleft at the apex ; disk-florets 

 5-cleft, stamens and style included. In places neglected after culti- 

 vation, near Sange ; fl. and fr. June 1856. No. 3941. Canescent ; 

 stem branched ; flowers inconspicuous, small, almost hidden by the 

 floral leaves. At the outskirts of forests near the river Cate ; fr. 

 March 1856. Coll. Carp. 684. 



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