Pleiotaxis] Lxxi. coMPOsiTiE. 611 



on the margin. On elevated parts of the mountains of Alto Queta, 

 sparingly. No. 3893. Queta, fr. ; Sept. 1855. Coll. Caep. 673. 



4. P. Autunesii 0. HofFm., I.e., p. 539, and in Bol. See. Brot. x. 

 p. 183 (1893). 



HuiLLA. — Flowers shining, blood-red. At the bushy drier outskirts 

 of the forests of Monino ; fl. and f r. April and May 1860. No. 3892. 

 In hilly herbaceous places by the lake IvantMa, rather rare ; fl. and fr. 

 Feb. 1860. Apparently belonging to the species, although the achenes 

 are glabrous or obsoletely hairy. No. 3891. A sufiErutescent herb 

 with rufous-fuscous pappus ; fr. without fl. May 1860. Possibly a 

 form of this species with glabrous achenes, but the achenes are shorter 

 than in the above Nos. ; it should also be compared with Vernonia. 

 Coll. Caep. 691. 



5. P. fulva Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect, soft tawny-tomentose undershrub, 2 or 3 ft. high or 

 more ; rootstock woody ; stems several, strict, leafy, simple below, 

 branched above about the inflorescence; branches spreading, 

 alternate ; leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, alternate, spreading, 

 pointed or apiculate at the apex, somewhat narrowed at the base, 

 sessile or subsessUe, coriaceous, rigid, pale-green rugulose with 

 impressed venation and reticulation and thinly woolly above, 

 tawny-woolly beneath, minutely crenulate-denticulate on the 

 margin, 1-| to 3 in. long by i to |- in. broad ; capitula oblong, 

 homogamous, about |^ in. long, sessHe or on short pedicels, in 

 spikelike racemes terminal and in the upper axils, arranged in a 

 flat- topped oblong somewhat leafy and bracteate terminal cyme 

 6 to 9 in. long ; bracts like the leaves but much smaller; involucral 

 scales pluriseriate, more or le.ss oblong, obtuse, free to the base, 

 tawny-woolly on the back, glabrous and shining inside, coriaceous, 

 the innermost ones linear-oblong about \ in. long, the outer ones 

 successively shorter, the outermost ones broadly ovate-oblong and 

 short; flowers rosy- violet in colour; florets all hermaphrodite 

 and tubular, comparatively few, about f in. long ; corolla-tube 

 slender, rather suddenly dilated near the apex, pentamerous ; 

 lobes linear, ^ in. long ; anthers exserted, acuminate at the apex, 

 with fimbriate tails at the base ; style-branches exserted, short, 

 curving outwards, each with a minute broad very obtuse append- 

 age ; achene (young) oblong angular, adpressedly pilose, ^ in. 

 long ; pappus nearly ^ in. long, setose, whitish or slightly straw- 

 coloured, pauciseriate ; the setse somewhat unequal in length, 

 setulose ; receptacle papillose. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In the drier forests, in sunny spots between 

 Calunda and Mangue ; fl. March 1857. No. 3274. 



There is in the Carpological Collection a capitulum in fruit, 

 which I cannot assign to any of the previous species ; it should 

 be compared with P. Newtoni O. Hoffm., I.e., p. 537, the type 

 of which was obtained in Serra da Chella, but of which I have 

 seen no authentic example ; I append a description of Welwitsch's 

 specimen, including his note thereon : — 



