416 Lxvi. FicoiDEiE. [MoUugo 



No. 2415. A succulent prostrate annual herb. On sandy somewhat 

 salt gravel by the lake Quisequella ; in fl.-bud, Dec. 1853. Only one 

 specimen found, apparently belonging to this species. No. 1265. 



MossAMEDES. — An annual prostrate herb, branched from the base. 

 In damp sandy places near the banks of the river Bero, abundant ; fl. 

 and fr. July 1859. No. 2413. White-tomentose, by pools nearly dried 

 up, near Cavalheiros ; fl. June 1860. No. 2413^. Branches prostrate, 

 spreading in a stellate manner, clothed with a snow-white felt, as are 

 also the leaves, which are very much nerved on the back. In sandy 

 muddy places by dried-up pools along the banks of the river Caroca 

 near Cabo Negro ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1859. No. 2416. 



Var. virens (Fenzl, I.e., p. 358; Oliv., I.e., p. 590). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A prostrate herb ; stems elongated, with ram- 

 bling branches, 2 to 3 ft. long. By a nearly dried-up swamp between 

 Condo and Quisonde, in a wooded place ; fl. and fr. end of March 

 1857. Only one plant seen ; all the specimens were mutilated by oxen 

 rushing to the swamp in search for water ; they all had uniform leaves, 

 of the same size and shape, from the top to the bottom. No. 1111. 



2. M. oppositifolia L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 89 (1753); Trimen, Fl. 

 Ceyl. ii. p. 271 (1894). 



i/. Spergtda L. Syst. Kat., edit. 10, ii. p. 881 (1759) ; OHv. I.e. 



LoANDA. — A herb apparently lasting for several years but certainly 

 also annual ; root rather thick, fleshy- woody, descending vertically, 

 giving off numerous divisions from its crown ; stems very numerous, 

 branched, prostrate, spreading in a circle, ascending at the apex ; leaves 

 herbaceous-green, but little fleshy ; flowers greenish ; calyx-segments 5, 

 obtuse, keeled, erect ; corolla ; stamens included, 8 ; filaments 

 filiform ; anthers oblong-rectangular, 2-celled ; cells linear, separate 

 except in the middle where they are joined by the connective and 

 inserted on the filament ; ovary triquetrous, turgid, included ; stigmas 3, 

 sessile, diverging ; capsule 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved ; seeds 

 numerous, subreniform, fuscous-red, marked in rows with minute 

 dense raised points or tubercles, scarcely strophiolate, half-surrounded 

 by a white funicle. By rain-pools drying up at the time, near Alto 

 das Cruzes, abundant, fl. and fr. April 1854 ; at the pond (repressa), 

 Museque de Luis Gomes, fl. and fr. Aug. 1854. No. 1109. An annual 

 herb, with the habit of a Cerui^tium or Ahine ; stems numerous, 

 filiform, sparingly dichotomous, furrowed, shortly pilose, 4 to 9 in. 

 long, erect or ascending-erect ; whorls of the rather fleshy bright-green 

 leaves distant ; peduncles whorled, capillary, ^ to f in. long, erect in 

 flower, nodding in fruit ; flowers from white to greenish ; calyx- 

 segments thickly and acutely keeled ; filaments 3, 4, or 5, subulate, not 

 short ; capsule elongated-ellipsoidal, deeply 3-furrowed, crowned with 

 3 stigmas ; seeds turgid. Around rain-pools on clay among short grass 

 near Museque de Luis Gomes, in the southern plain above Loanda, very 

 abundant, but seen in only one locality : fl. and fr. 10 Jan. 1858. 

 Not seen in 1853 or 1854. No. 2409 and Coll. Cakp. 623. By 

 dried-up pools near Museque do Senhor Schut above Loanda ; fl. and 

 fr. June 1854. Rather small specimens. No. 2409^. 



Barra do Bengo. — An annual, prostrate-diffuse herb. In muddy 

 places previously flooded at the banks of the river Bengo near 

 Quifandongo, sparingly ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 1071. 



Barro do Dande. — An annual herb, with the habit of a Cerastium ; 

 at the edges of pools along the right bank of the river Dande, near 

 Bombo, sparingly : fl. and fr. end of Sept. 1858. No. 1112. 



