Crocodilodes] lxxi. compositvE. 609 



HuiLLA. — A plant 4 to 5 ft. high, branched towards the apex, 

 apparently perennial ; flowers yellow. At Ferrao da Sola towards 

 Catumba ; fl. and fr. Feb. and May 1860. No. 3711. The leaves 

 range up to 4 in. long. 



4. C. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect herb, 3 to 4 ft. higli and more, branched near the top, 

 apparently annual ; stem strict, purplish, sulcate-striate, sub- 

 terete, pithy, more or less thinly clothed as well as the short 

 ascending branches, with a soft fugitive white flocoose cotton, leafy 

 throughout ; leaves alternate, narrowly elliptical, bristle-pointed 

 at the apex, cuneate or the upper ones obtuse at the sessile or 

 subsessile base, green soabrid and scattered above with short 

 close-lying pimple-based rigid hairs, whitish felted beneath, not 

 lobed, 2 to 5 in. long by |^ to 1 in. broad, not decurrent, the 

 margin biserrulate with all the teeth small and terminating in 

 setaceous straight bristles ; capitula hemispherical, heterogamous, 

 radiate, Ij to 2| in. in diameter, usually subgeminate on un- 

 equal short whitish-felted pedicels of g to 1 in. long, arranged 

 in several-headed corymbose terminal cymes of about 4 to 6 in. 

 in diameter ; common peduncle ^ to 6 in long ; involucral scales 

 pluriseriate, spinous-toothed with the prickles patent and glabrous, 

 thinly white-felted on the back, connate near the base ; the outer 

 ones subfoHaceous, linear-lanceolate or including the nearly 

 straight rigid acute prickles ovate in outline, about f in. long; 

 flowers of a straw-yellow colour; ray-florets uniseriate, neuter, 

 about an inch long, styleless ; the ligule linear, 5-nerved ; the 

 ovary rudimentary, surmounted by a few unequal fringed palese ; 

 disk-florets multiseriate, hermaphrodite, fertile, about | in. long, 

 tubular; the corolla 5-fid, with linear-oblong lobes, the lobes 

 thickened along the valvate margins ; the anthers nearly equalling 

 the corolla, shortly appendaged at the apex, shortly caudate at 

 the base ; style branches rather long, exserted, somewhat pointed, 

 minutely papillose, not appendaged ; ovary densely clothed with 

 whitish silky hairs, embedded in the pits of the fleshy receptacle, 

 rather short ; the pits of the receptacle toothed on the margin 

 with unequal paleaceous acute teeth ; pappus paleaceous ; the 

 palese about 20, biseriate, oblanceolate Jg- in. long, ciliolate-fringed, 

 obtuse, silky-setulose on the back, subequal. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In sandy thickets to the west of the presidium 

 and near Quitage, not uncommon ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 3713. 



This species is nearly related to C. Speheana (Oliv.) ; it has been 

 collected by Capello, n. 19, in the interior of Angola, where the local 

 name is " G-uioualo " ; it difEers from C angolensis (0. HofEm.) by its 

 herbaceous annual habit. 



5. C. gracilis. 



Berhheya gracilis O. HofEm., I.e., p. 35. 



HuiLLA. —Flowers sulphur-coloured. In sunny rooky mountainous 

 parts of Morro de Lopollo, plentiful ; fl. and fr. end of April 1860. 

 No. 3710. 



