Aspilia] Lxxi. coMPOSiTiE. 579 



1|^ in. broad ; petioles ranging up to | in. long, hirsute-hispid ; 

 capitula campanulate, about i in. long, heterogainous, radiate, 

 solitary, terminal and sub-terminal ; peduncles short, ranging up 

 to 1^ in. long, hirsute-hispid ; involucral scales sub-biseriate, oblong, 

 free to the base ; the outer ones hispid on the back, about 5, 

 coriaceous-foliaceous, obtusely pointed at the apex, nearly flat, 

 about ^ in. long ; the inner ones rigid, dry, about ^ in. long, 

 glabrous below, terminated at the apex with an ovate pointed 

 cUiate appendage, nearly flat or somewhat convex ; scales of the 

 receptacle ovate-oblong, folded, embracing the florets, -j- to | in. 

 long ; flowers sulphur-yellow ; ray-florets uniseriate, ligulate, 

 about f in. long, neuter ; the lamina about i in. long, obovate, 

 tridentate at the tip, spreading; the ovary compressed, linear, 

 slightly hairy, ^ in. long, surmounted with a coroniform shortly 

 bristly pappus ; disk-florets nearly i in. long, hermaphrodite, the 

 corolla tubular, shortly lobed ; anthers minutely sagittate at the 

 base ; style-branches short, rather flattened, broadly rounded at 

 the apex, hairy, not appendaged ; ovary ^ in. long, somewhat 

 compressed, linear, hairy-setose; pappus cupuliform, shallow, 

 broader than the top of the ovary, persistent, exaristate, scattered 

 with a few whitish setse, fimbriate at the apex with very short 

 slender teeth ; achenes olDlong, obtusely angular-compressed, about 

 i in. long, scattered with short hairs. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In the Panda forest near Oondo, close to the 

 cataract of the river Cuanza ; fl. and fr. 16 March 1857. No. 3558- 



6. A. Kotsohyi Benth. & Hook. f. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxix. p. 98 (1873) ; 0. & H., I.e. ; 0. Hofifm., I.e., p. 30. 



G-OLUNGO Alto. — An annual herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, resembling a 

 Lycopsis in habit and in the colour of the atro-purpureous flowers. 

 In level fields and amongst thickets in rather barren places near Bango, 

 Sange, Cambondo, etc. ; fl. and fr. from May to July 18.55. No. 3561. 

 In reed-beds (oapinaes) at the outskirts of primitive forest of 

 Quisucnla, abundant ; fl. and ripe fr. April 185G. No. 3562. In 

 rather dry hUly places by the river Delamboa : fl. and fr. May 1856. 

 No. 3563. An annual or biennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; flowers like 

 those of a Zinnia, but black-purple velvety. About Sange and 

 Qnisucula ; fr. May 1856. Coll. Caep. 666. 



47. MELANTHERA Rohr; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 377. 



1. M. Brownei Schultz Bip. in Hora, 1844, p. 673 ; 0. & H. in 

 Oliv. PI. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 382 ; Ficalho, PI. IJteis, p. 208 (1884). 



BuphthalTnwm scandens Schum. & Thonn. in Danske Vidensk. 

 Selsk. iv. p. 166 (1829). Zipotriche Brovmei DC. Prodr. v. p. 544 

 (1836). Amellus scandens O. Kuntze,Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 306 (1891). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A subscandent herb, 3 to 4 ft. high ; flowers 

 large, deep-yellow, with the florets of the disk paler ; ray-florets 

 flattened, quite patent, nerved, emarginate-denticulate at the apex ; 

 achenes shortly obcuneate, more or less compressed, obtusely 3- or 

 4-angular, smooth ; pappus consisting of 7 to 9 unequally long very 

 brittle bristles. In elevated thickets among the Queta mountains 

 above N-delle, in company with NapoleoruBa imperialis P. Beauv. ; fl. 



