610 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Pleiotaxis 



Tribe XI. — Mutisiace^. 



73. PLEIOTAXIS Steetz ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 487. 



1. P. pulcherrima Steetz in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. p. 500, 

 t. 51 (1863) ; 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 440 ; 0. Hoffm. 

 in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. p. 536 (1893). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A perennial herb ; rootstock woody-tuberous, 

 with long stout fibres ; leaves coriaceous, green, smooth and strongly 

 shining above ; flowers of a deep blood-red colour, distantly resembling 

 those of a Dianthus. In open wooded places near Mangue ; fl. and fr. 

 March 1857. No. 3890, and Coll. Carp. 674 



2. P. rugosa O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 538, and in Bol. Sec. Brot. x. 

 p. 183 (1893). 



GoLTjNGO Alto. — A very beautiful perennial herb, 2^ to nearly 4 ft. 

 high ; rootstock thick, woody, many-headed ; stem erect, sometimes- 

 simple and one-headed, in other cases branched and 3- to 5-headed ; 

 leaves rigid, thick, not succulent, dry, deep green above, whitish 

 tomentose or clothed with a silky wool beneath ; involucral scales- 

 red-purple ; florets brilliant, from orange to cinnabar-red. In thinly 

 bushy and sparingly grassy places on the elevated slopes among the 

 mountains of Sobato de Bumba and of Queta ; fl. and fr. 1855. Native 

 name " Haca," which is apparently used in a collective sense, as, for 

 instance, for Dicoma anomala. No. 3887. SufEruticose, fulgent ; 

 habit that of a Centaurea. Mountains of Alto Queta ; fr. March. 

 Coll. Carp. 671. 



Var. auriciilata (Welw.). 



Leaves conspicuously amplexicaul and auriculate. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect, sparingly branched, perennial herb ; 

 leaves deeply rugulose, bright green without gloss above, hoary-silky 

 beneath ; corolla bright scarlet, as are also the stigmas ; anther-tube 

 yellowish. In the more elevated bushy part of the prsesidium ; fl. and 

 fr. middle of Dec. 1856. Only one specimen in the herbarium. 

 No. 3888. In 10 fully ripe capitula only 27 per cent, of the seeds were 

 found good. Coll. Carp. 675. 



3. P. eximia 0. Hofim., I.e., p. 539. 



P. pulcherrima Klatt in Ann. Nat. Hofmvis. Wien, vii. p. 104 

 (1892) ; non Steetz. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— Flowers red-scarlet. Coll. Carp. 672. 



Pungo Andongo. — A handsome perennial herb, 2 ft. high, obsoletely 

 branched ; leaves broad ; capitula large ; corolla orange-scarlet as are 

 also the stigmas. At Muxillo Guinga in the prsesidium ; fl. and fr. 

 middle of Dec. 1856. No. 3889. Fr. May 1857. Coll. Carp. 676. 



The following No. is also referred by O. Hoffmann to this 

 species ; see Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 35 (1896) : — 



Golungo Alto.— a very beautiful shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, woody at 

 the base, patently branched ; capitulum homogamous ; florets scarlet, 

 all hermaphrodite, equal ; corolla-tube long, the limb 5-clef t ; anthers 

 caudate, the tails very delicate, capitulate, more or less cohering with 

 the filaments, downy-pilose ; achenes linear-oblong very sparingly 

 pilose, canaliculate ; pappus setose, equalling the corolla-tube ; re- 

 ceptacle alveolate, the alveolae more or less fringed or appendaged 



