624 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Sonchug 



leaves lanceolate-spathulate, ^ to 2^ in. long, developed after the 

 flowers ; flowers yellow, appearing at the beginning of spring in 

 September and October; aohenes narrow, truncate at both ends, about 

 5-ribbed on each face ; pappus white, setae smooth. On bushy slopes, 

 near Halo on the left bank of the river Lucala ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. 

 No. 3635. A herb ; root thick, cylindrical, milky, many-headed ; 

 young leaves lanceolate, subrepand, glaucous-green ; flowers lettuce- 

 like, yellow, precocious, fugacious. In thickets at HS,lo, plentiful, 

 after the burnings ; fl. and young fr. 8 June 1857. No. 3636. 



I have not seen O. Hoffman's type ; our specimens differ in having- 

 fewer florets (13 or 14) in the capitula, and the inner involucral scales 

 are 8 only. 



The following "tTo., represented by a bad specimen, the young^ 

 flowers of which had been attacked by an insect, perhaps belongs 

 here : — 



HuiLLA. — Leaves radical, 1 to If in. long ; scape branched, 3 in. 

 high ; involucral scales 6. In pastures near MumpuUa, not found 

 again subsequently ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3650. 



The following No. was referred to Sonchus by Welwitsch, but; 

 I have been unable to match it with any known species, and the 

 specimen is too young to warrant its publication as new : — 



MossAMEDES. — An annual milky herb, acaulescent ; leaves radical, 

 rosulate, about 4 in. long, runcinate, denticulate with small prickle- 

 pointed teeth ; inflorescence .shorter than the leaves ; capitula about 

 ^ in. long ; flowers yellow. About the mouth of the river Bero, 

 abundant ; young fl. .July 1859. No. 3638. 



LXXII. GOODENIACEiE. 



1. SCffiVOLA L. (1771) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 539 (1876). 



Lohelia Plum, ex L. (1737); L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 929 (partly) 

 (1753); Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 157 (1763). 



I have not followed those botanists who substitute the name 

 Lobelia for Sccevola. In the first edition of the Species Plantarwn, 

 Linnseus evidently did not consider this to be the typical form of 

 the genus which he there called Lobelia ; he enumerated 25 species 

 which are now considered to belong to 7 different genera, but 17 

 of these species are still retained in the genus usually called Lobelia, 

 and only one belongs to Sccevola. 



1. S. Lobelia Murr. Syst. Veg., edit. 13, p. 178 (1774), excl. syn. 

 Rumph. ; Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 462. 



S. senegalensis Presl, Eel. Haenk. ii. p. 59 (1835) ; Welw. in 

 Bol.Conselho Ultramar. No. 7, p.82 (Aug. 1854), and Apont. p. 548 

 under n. 85 (1859). 



Ambeiz. — A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high ; branches distichous ; leaves 

 fleshy, very thick ; flowers yellow ; berries black. In sandy places along 

 the sea-coast, near Ponta d'Ambriz, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. 

 No. 11376. 



LoAXDA. — A decumbent or ascending shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high ; stems 

 usually purplish, with a juicy wood ; leaves fleshy, bright green- 

 glaucescent, rather rigid ; the axils of the leaves and bracts bearded ; . 



