Jaumea] lxxi. composit/E. 589 



Teibe VI. — Helenioid^. 

 53. JAUMEA Pers. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 397. 



1. J. angolensis 0. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 178 (1893) 

 &xiii. p. 32 (1896). 



/. compositarum Klatt. in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, vii. 

 p. 103 (1892), non Benth. & Hook. f. 



HuiLLA. — A perennial herb ; rhizome furnished with cylindrical 

 tubercles ; stem solitary, erect, li to 3^ ft. high, simple or branched 

 in the upper part, the branches dichotomous or trichotomous ; leaves 

 pellucid-punctate, curiously papillose ; flowers safEron-coloured. In 

 marshy places among tall bushes along the LopoUo river, in company 

 with Epilobium hirsutum L., a Rumex, a Typha, and species of Poly- 

 gonum ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3965. 



54. WELWITSCHIELLA O. Hoffm. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. 5, p. 390 (1894). 



1. W. neriifolia O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 391, and in Bol. Soc. Brot. 

 xiii. p. 31 (1896). 



HuiLLA. — A rough, strictly erect, perennial herb, with pellucid- 

 punctate leaves and yellow flowers. In wooded meadows about the 

 lake of Ivantala ; fl. and young fr. end of Feb. 1860. No. 3703. 



55. TAGETES Tournef., L.; Benth. & Plook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 411. 

 1. T. patula L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 887 (1753). 



GOLUNGO Alto.— In Sobato de Quilombo ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1855. 

 No. 3967. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In public streets in the prsesidium ; frequently 

 wild and occurring almost everywhere by the villages both of the 

 settlers and of the negroes, in all probability introduced long ago by 

 the missionaries ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3966. 



Teibe VII. — Anthemidejs. 



56. ATHANASIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 416. 

 1. A. schistostepModes Hiem, sp. n. 



A rigid perennial plant, 4 to 5 ft. high ; stem strictly erect, 

 leafy and unbranched for a considerable length, minutely puberu- 

 lous or obsoletely felted, terete, branched near the apex ; leaves 

 alternate, deeply impari-pinnatifid, obovate in outline, rounded 

 about the apex, narrowed to the shortly quasi-petiolate or sub- 

 sessile base, subglabrous and minutely punctulate above, softly 

 felted beneath with short curly almost glandular hairs, 1 to 2 in. 

 long by -I to 1^ in. broad ; the lateral lobes more or less oblong, 

 obtuse, minutely subapiculate, undivided or some of them with an 

 inferior lobule, not denticulate ; capitula subhemispherical, ^ to 

 ^ in. in diameter, homogamous, discoid, many-flowered, on rather 

 rigid bracteate pedicels ranging up to 1|- in. long, arranged 5 to 7 

 together in somewhat tomentellous rather dense corymbose cymes 

 1^ to 1 J in. in diameter terminating the branches ; bracts linear, 

 acute, J to ^ in. long ; involucral scales imbricate, subtriseriate, 

 linear-oval, |- to ^ in. long, obtuse, puberulous and somewhat 

 thickened along the back, scarious and shortly incised or fringed 

 on the upper margins, somewhat concave ; flowers \ to ^^ in. 



