608 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Meridiama 



although in the latter species the inner involucral scales are said to be 

 taper-pointed, and in our plant they are obtuse. 



71. BERKHEYOPSIS O. Ho£fm. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 5, p. 311 (1892). 



i. B. aizoides O. HofEm. in Bol. Soc Brot. x. p. 180 (1893), 



MossAMEDES. — Flowers yellow. In gravelly hilly maritime places 

 at Praia da Amelia, etc., plentiful ; fl. and fr. July and August 1859. 

 No. 3707. 



HuiLLA. — A herb with the habit of a Calendula ; flowers yellow. 

 In sandy, sparingly bushy pastures, near Nene ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. 

 A form witti a more compact habit and longer linear leaves, perhaps 

 belonging hei*e. No. 3708. 



2. B. angolensis 0. Hoffm., I.e. 



MossAMEDES.— Habit and pappus suggestive of BerkJieya but the 

 involucral scales connate nearly to the middle after the manner of 

 Meridiana. In maritime thickets to the south of Villa de Mossamedes, 

 at Praia da Amelia ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 3705. In the sandy 

 maritime parts of the Giraiil, in company with various seaside plants ; 

 fl. and fr. 9 Sept. 1859. No. 3706. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers yellow. In pastures on a sandy clay soil, near 

 Lopollo ; fl. Dec, 1859. No. 3709. This No. is quoted by O. HofE- 

 mann, I.e., for the species, but the absence of ripe fruit, does not 

 enable satisfactory identification ; so far as I can judge from the 

 specimens they much resemble a Qorteria, especially G. diffusa Thunb. 



72. CROCODILODES Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 127 (1763). 

 Berhheya Ehrh. Beitr. iii. p. 137 (1788) ; Benth. &Hook. f. Gen. 

 PL ii. p. 460. 



1. C. Autunesii. 



Berkheya Autunesii 0. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 181. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A perennial herb, with numerous oblique or 

 ascending stems and yellow flowers. In wooded thickets at the banks 

 of the rivers Cuanza and LuxiUo, and near Lombe, plentiful ; fl. and 

 fr. March 1857. No. 3605. In sandy bushy places between Caghuy 

 and the river Cuanza ; not yet in open fl. April 1857. No. 3606. 



HuinA. — Flowers yellow. In sunny parts of the forest between 

 Eme and Ivantala ; not yet in full flower AprU 1860, and not seen 

 subsequently. No. 3604. 



2. C. Welwitschii. 



Berkheya Welwitschii O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 182. 



HuiLLA.— A csespitose plant, a foot high, with deep-yellow flowers. 

 In sandy thickets along the outskii;ts of forests between Eme and the 

 lake of Ivantlila ; fr. after the previous year's fl. end of Feb. and 

 March 1860 ; fl. April 1860. No. 3712. A pereimial herb, 2 ft. high, 

 with the habit of the caulescent species of Carlina ; stems numerous ; 

 flowers large, golden-yellow. In sandy thickets near Lopollo fr. Anril 

 1860. Coll. Carp. 57. ^ 



3. C. carliuopsis. 



Berkheya carlinopsis Welw. ex 0. Hoffm. in Bol Soc. Brot xiii 

 p. 34 (1896). 



