584 Lxxi. coMPOSiTiE. [Melanthera 



Yar. altior. 



A herb, 5 to 7 ft. high ; stem quadrangular, weak, sparingly- 

 branched, with fibrous adventitious roots at the base ; leaves less 

 excavated at the base than in the type of the species. 



PuNGO Andongo. — By streams in the wooded parts of Sobato 

 Cabanga, growing in masses ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3555. 



48. SPILANTHES Jacq. ; Bentb. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 380. 



1 S. oleracea L. Syst. Nat., edit, xii., Veg. p. 534 (1767) 

 {Spilanthus) ; Jacq. Hort. Vindob. (ii.) p. 63, t. 135 (1772). 



V&rhesina Acmella L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 901 (1753). S. Acmella 

 L. Syst. Veg., edit. Murr., p. 610 {111 i:) {Spilanthus) ; O. & H. in 

 Oliv. PL Trop. Afr. iii. p. 384; O. Hoflm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. 

 xiii. p. 31 (1896). Ceratocephalus Acmella O. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. 

 PI. i. p. 326 (1891). 



SiEEEA Leone. — A herb, 9 to 12 in. high ; stem decumbent, rooting; 

 branches slender, erect ; capitula conical-ovoid, radiate ; achenes 

 black, truncate, with 2 setae. In damp meadows by marshes near 

 Freetown ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. Ko. 3969. 



Baeea do Dande. — An annual or biennial prostrate herb ; stem 

 creeping, rooting here and there at the nodes ; leaves membranous, 

 ovate, repand or almost entire ; capitula axillary, pedunculate : 

 involucral scales herbaceous-green ; disk-florets milk-white ; anthers 

 turning black ; achenes compressed, smooth on the sides, obovate, 

 turning black, the edges each terminating in a rather long subulate 

 arista, the margin sometimes ciliolate or with very unequal aristse. In 

 only one damp grassy spot on the right bank of the river Dande, 

 plentifully ; fl. and fr. Sept. 185S. A luxuriant form. No. 3970, and 

 Coll. Carp. 664. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual herb ; stem decumbent, rooting at 

 the nodes ; branches and branchlets ascending, nearly glabrous ; 

 capitula pauciradiate, yellow but with the ligules paler and 

 occasionally becoming nearly white ; the ray-florets female, fertile, 

 ligulate, narrowly obovate, obtuse ; the disk-florets tubular, 4-cleft, 

 with deltoid spreading lobes ; achenes compressed-triquetrous, with 

 two of the angles acute and spinulose-ciliate and the third (the inner 

 one) obtuse or obsolete, truncate, with the angles terminating in short 

 setulse or nearly bald ; involucral scales lanceolate from a broad base, 

 almost as long as the capitulum or but little shorter, persistent. In 

 only one spot by the Oazella rivulet near the town, plentifully ; fl. 

 and fr. Nov. 1856. No. 3968. 



The three Nos. here referred to the above widely distributed species 

 greatly vary ; they were each considered by Welwitsch to constitute 

 new species. 



49. SYNEDRELLA Gaertn. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl.ii. p. 383. 

 1. S. nodiflora Gaertn. Fruct. ii. p. 456, t. 171, f. 7 (1791) ; 

 0. &. H. in Oliv. PI. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 386. 

 Sierba Leone.— Fr. Sept. 1853. No. 3983. 



50. COREOPSIS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 385. 

 1. C. Steppia Steetz in Peters, Mossam. Bot. ii. p. 496 (1863); 

 O. &. H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 388. 



