THanthe7na] lxvi. ficoide.e. 415 



ovary attenuate at the base, 1-celIed, 2-ovuled ; style 1, erect, arising 

 from the centre of the truncate apex of the ovary ; capsule turbinate, 

 truncate, opening in a circumscissile manner ; seeds 2, lenticular- 

 subreniform, black, delicately furrowed on both sides, superposed, the 

 lower one usually reduced or at least much smaller than the upper 

 one. In gravelly hilly maritime places at Praia da Amelia, near the 

 town of Mossamedes, among specimens of a leafless Euphorbia. 

 abundant, fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 1090 and Coll. Carp. 237. 



Var. sedifolia. 



T. sedifolia Visiani, PI. ^gypt. ac Nub. p. 19, t. 3, f. 1 (1836), 

 in Spongia, Comm. Med. ii. p. 204 (Aug. 1836), Oliv., I.e., p. 588. 



Mossamedes. — Always prostrate, rigid, brittle; leaves linear-oblong ; 

 stamens purplish ; flowers greenish-yellow; calyx-lobes arched-conical ; 

 petals ; stamens .5, alternating with the calyx-lobes ; ovary 1-celled : 

 style very shortly bifid-stigmatose at the apex, sometimes almost 

 undivided ; capsule circumsciss. In hilly sandy maritime places near 

 Praia da Amelia, i-ather rare ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 1089 and 

 Coll. Carp. 236. 



7. ORYGIA Forsk. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 856. 



1. 0. decumbens Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. p. 103 (1775); Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 589. , 



Mossamedes. — A perennial herb ; rhizome thick, woody ; stems 

 decumbent-ascending, turning purple or rosy ; leaves alternate, 

 glaucous, rather fleshy ; capsule suggesting Caryophyllacese. By red 

 sand-rocks near Boca do Rio Bero, rather rare : in advanced fr. with- 

 out fl. July 1859. No. 2418. A long-rooted perennial herb ; primarj^ 

 stem decumbent, as well as the branches whitish or purplish ; branches 

 angular, brittle ; leaves rather fleshy, glaucous, elliptical, attenuate 

 at both ends ; calyx green with purple margins, 5-partite ; capsule 

 almost as in Hypertelis E. Mey., 5-celled, 5-valved ; seeds reniform. 

 In dry stony places near Ladeira dos Arrependidos between Mata dos 

 Carpenteiros and Pao, sparingly; fr. and late fl. June 1860. No. 2418&. 



8. MOLLUGO L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 857. 



1. M. hirta Thunb. Prodr. PI. Cap. (i.) p. 24 (1794). 



Glinus lotoides Loefl. It. Hisp. p. 145 (1758) ; Fenzl. in Ann. 

 Wien. Mus. i. p. 357 (1838). i¥. Glinus A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 

 p. 48 (1847) ; OHv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 590. 



Loanda. — An annual much branched herb ; branches prostrate, 2 to 

 4 ft. long, spreading in a circle ; leaves rather wavy and more tomentose 

 in dried- up swamps than in marshes. By nearly dried-up swamps and 

 at the edges of lakes near Alto das Cruzas (also at the lake Quilanda 

 in Zenza do Goluxgo), abundant ; fl. and fr. beginning of Sept. 



1857. No. 2412. An annual, prostrate, hoary or softly shaggy herb : 

 anther-cells separate except their middle, where they are inserted on 

 the filament by means of the narrow transverse connective. In a few 

 flowers the calyx was hexamerous, with the interior segments quite 

 petaloid pale-yellowish and ovate-lanceolate like the other segments. 

 Staminodes bipartite. About swamps to the south of the city of 

 Loanda, between Bemposta and Camama ; fl. and fr. end of March 



1858. No. 2414. 



Barra do Bengo. — In muddy-sandy pastures flooded in summer, 

 near Panda, by the river Bengo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853. 



