596 LXV1I. FICOIDEZ (OLIVER). [ Limeum. 
Lower Guinea. T[uilla and Mossamedes, Angola, and var. hispidulum (Welw.), 
shortly hispid ; eymes pedunculate, rather lax, Mossamedes, Dr. Welwitsch ! Dr.Wawra. 
Var. leiocarpum. Nuts minutely granulated or smooth, Mossamedes, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Also south of the tropic. 
2.1%. Meyeri, Fenzl, Mollug. 342, adnot. Nearly allied to and 
with all the general characters of Z. viscosum, differing in the oval or 
oval-oblong leaves and flowers, congested in close sessile leaf-opposed 
glomerules }—2 in. in diameter. “ Petals 3, clawed, obovate.” Nuts 
tuberculate-rugose.—L. glomeratum, E. et Z. Enum. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
3. L. indicum, Stocks ; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. (#1. 
Aden.) 30. Divaricately branched, diffuse or subprostrate, glandular- 
puberulous or glabrate. Leaves opposite or nearly so, broadly ellip- 
tical or rotundate, mucronate, entire, distinctly petiolate ; }—} in. long, 
petiole 1-2 lines. Cymes few- or several-flowered, sessile or subsessile 
at the nodes. Petals clawed, toothed above. Stamens 6—7. Nuts 
about 1 line diameter, back quite smooth. 
Wile Land. Nubia, Dr. Bromfield! Ehrenberg ! (as L. viscosum, in Herb. Berol.) 
Also eastward to Scinde. 
4. L. linifolium, Fenzl; DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2, 24. + Diffuse glabrous 
annual (perennial, Alotzsch) 4-1 ft. or more; branches rather slender, 
procumbent or ascending, forking. Leaves alternate, linear, subacute, 
narrowed at base, or oval in var. (3, }—2 in. long, ;4,—4 in. broad, or to 
$ in. in var. 8. Cymes few or many-flowered, usually compact, sessile 
or subsessile, lateral extra-axillary or terminal and sometimes pedun- 
culate, occasionally 1-1} in. in diameter. Sepals apiculate, with herba- 
ceous midrib. Petals 0 or varying to 3-5, linear-spathulate, hyaline. 
Stamens 7; filaments abruptly dilated at base and there confluent. 
Nuts bony, dorsally tuberculate or corrugate-tubercled, {—} in. dia- 
meter.—Dicarpea linifolia, Presl, Symb. Bot. i. 38, tab. 26. Gaudin 
diffusa, J. Gay in Feruss, Bull. xviii. 412. Acanthocurpea sulcata, 
Xlotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 138, t. 24. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur ! 
Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Angola (also var. 6 polygonoides (Welw.) 5 L, 
argute-carinatum Wawra and Peyr., Sert. Beng. 23, with narrowly elliptical leaves) 
Dr. Welwitsch! Mouth of Katombela river, Dr. Wawra! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! Dr. Peters. 
Also South of the Tropic. f smais 
Of Acathocarpea scabrida, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 139, I have not seet 
a specimen. It is not improbably a form of the above. ‘The flowers do not in any way 
differ, he says, but the fruits are smaller, the leaves oblong with subscabrid pelluct 
margins, and the branches very minutely scabrid. 
ERRATUM, Page 50. 
Omit Trigonella marginata, Hochst. et Steud, which is correctly cited as 4 
synonym of Trifolium subrotundum, Steud, et Hochst., p. 59. 
