Dicoma] lxxi. composite. 615 



the apex, lanceolate or oblong-linear, erect or adpressed, the outer 

 short, the inner successively longer, some f in. long; corolla 

 tubular, deeply 5-lobed ; the lobes sublinear, narrowed gradually 

 to the scarcely acute apex ; anthers rather shorter than the 

 coroUa-lobes, with lanceolate appendages at the apex and long 

 narrow fringed ciliate acute tails at the base ; style included, sub- 

 clavate, notched at the apex ; achenes densely pilose-setu.lose, 

 ^ in. long ; pappus pluriseriate, wholly setose, |^ to f in. long ; 

 the setsB whitish, unequally long, plumose. 



HuiLLA. — In the drier pastures about Lopollo and Mumpulla, 

 abundant ; not yet in fl. Oct. 1859 ; one specimen in fl. and fr. May 

 1860. No. 3616. 



76. PERDICIITM L. Diss. PI. Ear. Afr. p. 22, n. 72 (Dec. 1760). 

 Gerbera Gronov. ex L. Cor. Gen. PI. p. 16 (1737); Benth. & 



Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 497. Gerberia Cass, in Bull. Soc. Philom. 

 1817, p. 34 (Feb.). 



1. P. piloselloides. 



Arnica piloselloides L., Z.c, p. 22, n. 73. Gerberia piloselloides 

 Cass, in Diet. Sc. Nat. xviii. p. 461 (1820); 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. iii. p. 445 (Gerbera) ; 0. HofFm. in Eng. Bot. Jahrb. xv. 

 p. 546 (1893) ; and in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 35 (1896). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A perennial stemless herb, with the habit of a 

 Scorzonera ; root-fibres fleshy, fasciculate ; scape erect ; capitula 

 nodding. In thickets about the praesidium, sporadic ; fl. and fr. Dec. 

 1856. No. 3598. 



Htjilla. — Flowers white-violaceous in colour. In bushy rocky 

 sparingly herbaceous places near Lopollo at the river ; fl. and fr. Nov. 

 and Dec. 1859. No. 3597- The scapes range up to 15 in. long. 



2. P. abyssinicum. 



Gerbera abyssinioa Schultz, Bip. ex A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 458 

 (1847) ; O. & H., I.e., p. 445; 0. Hoffm. in Engl., I.e., p. 547; and 

 in Bol. Soc. Brot., I.e., p. 185. 



Pdngo Andongo. — A perennial, csespitose, stemless herb ; rhizome 

 becoming rather woody ; scapes erect ; capitula somewhat nodding ; 

 flowers yellow. In dense sandy thickets between Pungo Andongo and 

 the river Lutete ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1896. No. 3599. Bootstock perennial, 

 many-headed ; habit almost oiApargia ; flowers golden-yellow; widely 

 caespitose in sandy bushy or wooded places between the praesidium and 

 the river Cuanza ; fl. and young fr. middle of Dec. 1856. No. 3600. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers yellow. In thinly bushy places along the right 

 bank of the Lopollo river ; fl. and fr. Deo. 1859. No. 3602. In the 

 drier thickets on the right bank of the Lopollo stream ; fl. Dec. 1859. 

 No. 3603- In bushy pastures near Lopollo towards J4u ; fl. Jan. and 

 Feb. 1860. Receptacle plane-canvex, somewhat alveolate, scattered 

 with a few short teeth. No. 3601, 



Teibb XII.— Cichoeiacb^. 



77. TOLPIS Adans. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 508. 



1. T.frutioosa Schrank,Pl. Ear. Hort.Monac. n. 46 c. tab.(1819). 

 Crepis fili/ormis Ait. Hort. Kew., edit. 1, iii. p. 128 (1789). 



