Halimwni] Lxvi. ficoide^. 413 



genus ; seeds black, glossy. On the sea-sands of Praia de San Thiago ; 

 fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. The specimens were lost in crossing the river 

 Bero. 



Loan DA. — A glaucescent herb, the whole plant, but especially the 

 stems, turning red, annual but somewhat shrubby ; stems diffuse, 2 to 

 4 ft. long, dichotomously branched, arranged in a circle ; leaves linear, 

 thick, very glaucous, fleshy, brittle, pale-green ; flowers deep-violet or 

 purplish ; calyx-lobes densely papillose and green outside, rosy inside ; 

 styles 3 or 4, filiform ; capsule pyramidal, truncate at the apex. In 

 gravelly sea-sands of the island of Loanda in company with Scmvola 

 Lobelia L. (Welw. Herb. No. 1137) ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853, July 1854, 

 and 12 June 1858 ; island of Cazauga to the south of Loanda ; fl. and 

 fr. 30 April 1854 and Oct. 1854. Abundant. No. 2386. A perennial 

 plant, well worth cultivating ; stems deep purple-red, prostrate in a 

 circle ; leaves semicylindrical, fleshy glaucous ; flowers rosy, usually 

 rather large. In sandy places in the island of Loanda ; fr. Feb. 1858. 

 Coll. Carp. 160. 



2. H. congense O. Kuntze, I.e. {Hcdimus congensis) (1891). 

 Sesuvium congense Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 586. 



Ambriz. — A very rigid low almost suffruticose herb, with the 

 habit of a Mesembryanthemum, very much and diffusely branched 

 from the base, prostrate ; branches cylindrical, tortuous, minutely 

 papillose as well as the branchlets; shoots ascending, subsecund; leaves 

 fleshy, linear or nearly worm-shaped, strongly involute ou the margin, 

 green-glaucescent, fasciculate-crowded; flowers small, subsessile, bright- 

 rosy inside ; petals ; stamens numerous ; lid of the capsule conical- 

 umbonate. In rocky places and in gravel in mountainous places along 

 the estuary of the river On^o in Mossul, near Ambriz, abundant ; fl. 

 and fr. Nov. 1853. Collected in flight under pursuit by a party of 

 Mossul negroes. No. 2382. 



3. H. meseinbriantliemoides. 



Sesuvium mesemhrianthetnoides Wawra in Wawra & Peyr, in 

 Sitz. Akad. Wien, xxxviii. p. 564 (1860). S. crystallinum Welw. 

 ex Oliv., I.e. Hcdimus crystallinus O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. 

 p. 263 (1891). 



MossAMEDES. — A prostrate suffruticose herb, perennial or sometimes 

 apparently annual, forming large clumps, the whole plant in the living 

 state densely covered with rather large watery-glassy papillse, very 

 beautiful in the manner of Mesemhryantliemum crystallinum L. ; stem 

 cylindrical, jointed ; leaves opposite, fleshy, terete, marked with one 

 furrow on the upper face, hoary-papillose, and thus appearing very 

 glaucous ; petioles short, sheathing the stem ; flowers deep-rosy inside : 

 styles 4 ; capsule 4-celled ; seeds helix-shaped. In sandy gravelly 

 situations along the seashore near Mossamedes, very abundant ; fl. and 

 fr. beginning of July 1859. No. 2389. 



The following No. is doubtfully referred here : — 



Mossamedes. — A succulent green minutely papillose herb, with the 

 habit of this genus or of Portulacacese. In sandy places at the sea- 

 side, near Cabo Negro ; not yet in fl. Sept. 1859. No. 2387. 



4. H. sesuvioides O. Kuntze, I.e. {Halimus sesuviodes) (1891). 

 Biplochonium sesuvioides Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. Dec. (vii) p. 58 



(30 June 1839). Sesuvium digynum, Welw. ex Oliv. I.e. 



