578 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Wedelia 



Pu^'GO AxDOXGo.— In thickets very frequently flooded, near 

 Oandumbi ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 3557. 



. 46. ASPILIA Thouars ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 371. 



1. A. Welwitschii O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc Bret. xiii. p. 29 (1896). 

 HuiLLA.— Eootstock thick, hard-woody; stems several, rigid, 



straight or ascending ; flowers golden-yellow, nearly orange or deep 

 orange in colour ; achenes subcompressed, tetragonal, pubescent on 

 the upper part ; pappus either bi-aristate or bidentate. In pastures- 

 amidst tall bushes on the right bank of the Lopollo stream, fl. and f r. 

 Oct. and Nov. 1859 and again in Jan. 1860 ; also in hilly places on a 

 rich soil covered with acacia shrubs, on the right bank of the LopollO' 

 stream, plentiful, fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3559. 



Var. serrata. 



Leaves more or less serrate, at least on the upper half. 



HuiLLA.— In thickets near Mumpulla ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3560. 



2. A. bipartita O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 30. 



PuNGO Anddxgo.. — A perennial herb ; primary stem rooting below - 

 capitula heterogamous, yellow ; involucral scales few, rigidly coriaceous, 

 imbricate, biseriate ; ray-florets ligulate, neuter, bifid to the middle, 

 with obtuse lobes ; disk-florets each sheathed with a scarious bract, 

 6-clef t, with reflexed lobes and somewhat pilose tube ; anthers 

 delicately caudiciilate or shortly hastate-aristate at the base, far 

 exserted ; style glabrous, the branches far exserted, circinate, above 

 the middle flattened, somewhat pilose inside not outside, acutely 

 pointed at the apex ; achenes few, thickened on the margin, quad- 

 rangular, truncate, glabrous, sometimes tuberculate, with the angles 

 cartilaginous-costate ; pappus coronif orm in the centre of the achene, 

 paleaceous. In damp sandy places between Condo and Quisondo ; 

 fl. and fr. March 1867. No. 3564. 



3. A. trichodesmoides 0. Hoffm., I.e., p. 28. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A herb with the habit of an Echium, Lycnpsis, or 

 Cerianthe ; root tuberous-woody, perennial ; stems numerous, ascending,, 

 1 to 2 ft. high ; flowers from lilac to purple ; achenes precisely 

 similar to those of A. hipartita O. Hoffm. (Welw. Herb. no. 3664). 

 In rocky bushy places near Muta-Lucala, only in one spot ; fl. and fr. 

 beginning of March 1857. No. 3565. 



4. A. helianthoides 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 381. 

 GoLtiNGO Alto. — In swampy places near Camilungo ; without 



either fl. or fr. March 1856. Nos. 3972 and 3972&. For want of 

 sufficient material the determination is doubtful. 



5. A. fontinalis Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect rigid herb or undershrub, 1 to 2 ft. high; stems 

 striate, simple or nearly so, nearly smooth, below, above leafy,, 

 obtusely angular, more or less hiapid-scabrid with pale hairs 

 arising from a papilliform base; leaves opposite, ovate or sub- 

 elliptical, not acuminate, pointed at the apex, obtuse or somewhat 

 wedge-shaped at the subsessile or very shortly petiolate base, 

 rigidly membranous, dull green, scabrid-strigulose above, strigose- 

 liispid and scarcely paler beneath, distantly serrulate, erect-patent, 

 indistinctly triplinerved at or near the base. If to i^ in. by i to. 



