Senecio] lxxi. composit^e. 603 



14. S. subscandens llochst. ex A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 434 

 (1847); 0. & H., I.e., p. 421 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6363 (1878). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A perennial herb ; stems solid, very delicately 

 pulverulent with a glaucous bloom, somewhat woody at the base, 8 to 

 15 ft. high and more, climbing upon trees, flowering and pendulous at 

 the extremities ; leaves glaucous beneath ; petioles very brittle, 

 frequently purplish, auriculate, the auricles embracing the stem in a 

 falcate manner ; flowers ochroleucoua ; style-branches thickened at the 

 apex, stigmatose-circinate throughout their length ; achenes sub-com- 

 pressed, thinly scattered with hairs ; pappus uniseriate. The whole 

 plant is rather fleshy, and even small bits of its branches take root 

 with the greatest ease. In deep valleys by the Delamboa stream, 

 climbing upon palms ; fl. and fr. June 1856. No. 3691. Scandent. 

 By the waters of the Delamboa and Quiquele-quele ; fl. and fr. July 

 1856. No. 3692. A weak, climbing undershrub, with glaucous 

 foliage. At Quiquele-quele ; fl. and fr. July 1856. No. 3693. A 

 stem-leaf, grown in the Lumiar garden near Lisbon in 1862, of a plant 

 introduced from this district. No. 36936. 



HuiLLA. — A bright green climbing herb, with a tuberculous root. 

 In wooded rocky parts of Monino, not yet in fl. May 1860. From this 

 source the plant was obtained which was grown in Hort. Kew. and 

 which was figured in the Botanical Magazine. No. 3690. 



66. OLIGOTHRIXDO. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 452. 

 XyridopsisV^Ayf. exO. Hoffm., in Bol. Soc. Bret. xiii. p. 33 (1896). 

 1. 0. xyridopsis 0. HofFm. I.e. 



HuiLLA. — Capitula yellow. In very elevated pastures flooded in the 

 rainy season, amidst short grass, in company with Isoetes and species 

 of Xyris in Morro de LopoUo ; fl. April and May 1860. No. 3993. 



67. OTHONNA L. partly; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 453. 



1. 0. coriifolia Send, ex Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 

 p. 333 (1865). 



0. Bainesii 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 423. 



HuiLLA. — An undershrub or shrmblet, with the habit of a Lactuca ; 

 stems erect, 1 to 2 ft. high, several from the same rootstock ; leaves 

 coriaceous, the blade vertical ; flowers tubular, yellow. In rocky 

 thickets near Mumpulla, at an elevation of from 4000 to 4500 ft., 

 sporadic ; fr. and few fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3991. 



2. 0. huillensis Welw. ms. in Herb. 



An erect, glaucescent, nearly glabrous shrublet, 1|^ to 4 ft. 

 high, in the form of a little tree, rather fleshy and rigid ; stem 

 sparingly branched, filled as well as the root with a yellow 

 resin ; branches alternate, spreading, minutely glandular, densely 

 leafy towards the apex, thick, fuscous or somewhat ashy, scarred 

 below, the tomentum forming whitish scaly patches at the scars 

 of the fallen leaves ; leaves alternate, crowded, spathulate- 

 oblanceolate, rounded and sometimes minutely cuspidate at the 

 apex, attenuate at the petiolate base, 1| to 5 in. long (including 

 the petiole of ^ to 1 in.) by ^ to 1| in. broad; midrib strongly 

 marked and pallid from the base, tapering and inconspicuous 

 towards the apex ; lateral veins very slender ; inflorescence 



