622 Lxxi. coMPOSiTiE. {^Lactuca 



of the flower. In bushy rather dry places near Sange ; fl. and fr. 

 August 1856. No. 3628. In wooded places at the borders of thickets 

 in Sobato Quilombo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1855. No. 3637. 



This species is very closely related to L. capensis Thunb., and has 

 been united with it by some authors. 



7. L. andongensis Hiern, sp. d. 



An erect branched herb, li ft. high, apparently biennial, 

 glabrous or nearly so ; stem reddish ; lower leaves oblong, undi- 

 vided, denticulate, obtuse, sessile, scarcely narrowed at the base, 

 1 to 1^ in. long ; fruiting capitula campanulate, nearly an inch 

 long, on unequal pedicels ranging up to 2J in. long, arranged 

 in a rather lax oblong terminal cyme ; involucral scales pluri- 

 seriate, imbricate; the inner ones about 12 in 2 or 3 rows linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, about f in. long, glabrous or nearly so ; the 

 outer ones shorter, more deltoid, minutely pruinose-pulverulent 

 on the back ; achenes ^ in. long including the pappus or half as 

 long excluding the pappus, narrowly elliptical, attenuate towards 

 the apex into a beak nearly as long as the body of the achene, 

 somewhat compressed, more or less scattered with very short 

 hairs, marked on each side with one principal and two slighter 

 nerves; pappus whitish, f in. long, copious, setose, the setae 

 scaberulous. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In bushy places on a sandy clay soil, near 

 Luxilla ; fr. ; only one specimen, Jan. 1857. No. 3657- 



80. SONCHTJS Tournef., L.: Benth. & Hook. f.Gen. PI. ii. p. 528. 



1. S. oleraceus L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 794 (1753) ; O. & H. in 

 OUv. ¥1. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 457. 



LoANDA. — In cultivated plots near Loanda, at Esquina de Bungo 

 rather rare ; fl. and fr. May 1854. No. 3641. 



GrOiiTJNGO Alto. — An annual glaucous herb ; stem strictly erect, 

 rather rigid as well as the leaves ; flowers pale yellow. In damp 

 grassy places on the left bank of the stream Quiapoze, roadway near 

 Menha-Lula ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1854. No. 3639. A much-branched 

 annual herb, 3 to 5 ft. high, usually beset (as in Europe) with 

 pertinacious white mucor-like patches on the leaves ; achenes trans- 

 versely rugulose on the ribs and interspaces. Almost everywhere in 

 cultivated and rich waste places, perhaps originally introduced with 

 seeds from Europe ; in the court of the residency, July 1855. 

 No. 3642. Achenes transversely rugulose. In moist warm places 

 near Camilungo ; fr. May 1856. No. 3643. Both in cultivated and 

 in uncultivated places near the dwellings of the negroes, at Bango ; f r. 

 April 1855. No. 3644. 



Var. asper L., I.e. 



S. asper Hill, Herb. Brit. p. 47, c. fig. (1769). 



GoLTJNGO Alto. — A glaucescent rather rigid rough herb, 2 to 5 ft. 

 high ; stem acutely alate-angular with the decurrent keels of the 

 leaves, towards the base as well as the leaves reddish or purple, on the 

 upper part nearly bare and obtusely angular with the angles obsolete 

 or but little prominent ; flowers sulphur-yellow ; ligules tridentate, 

 sordid-red or brick-red beneath ; receptacle foveolate, with a small 



