Phamaceum] lxvi. ficoide.e. 4J9 



suffrutescent, scarcely a hand high, wholly violet-grey ; stems 

 numerous, decumbent -ascending ; leaves fleshy, almost terete, 

 like those of a Sedum, linear, rather obtuse, muticous, glaucous, 

 rather purplish, bistipulate at the base, subamplexicaul ; stipules 

 scarious, whitish; warts on the foliage, and inflorescence some- 

 times plentiful, in other cases scarcely conspicuovis or rare or 

 altogether absent ; flowers apetalous ; calyx prettily rosy or red, 

 the three inner segments smaller, more coralline, and not so 

 broadly membranous on the margin as the two outer ones; 

 stamens mostly 7, rarely more numerous, or in short-stalked 

 flowers only 1 ; anthers broadly oblong ; ovary 1 to 5 -celled ; styles 

 3 or 5, recurved ; placentation axile ; seeds indefinite, pear-shaped. 

 At the base of the long rays of the umbel there are sometimes 

 1 to 3 almost sessile flowers with a single efiete stamen and an 

 abortive ovary. 



MossAMEDEs. — In sandy seaside situations near the town of Mossa- 

 medes, abundant ; fl. and fr. June and July 1859. No. 2381, and Coll. 

 Carp. 624. On the sands of the coast near Mossamedes : fl. July 1859, 

 fr. June 1860. Coll. Carp. 238. 



10. PSAMMOTROPHA Eckl. k Zeyh. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. i. p. 858. 



1. P. myriantha Sond. in Harv. k Sond. Fl. Cap. i. p. 147 (1860). 



Var. huillensis Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. -p. 593. 



Huilla. — A herb, at first sight seeming annual, but with a fleshy- 

 thickened perennial rootstock bearing a rosette of leaves at its apex ; 

 when young with quite the habit of an Aiulrosace ; stems weak, some- 

 times decumbent-ascending, in other cases almost erect, mostly rubicund ; 

 branches thickened at the distant nodes ; leaves lanceolate, rather 

 fleshy, glaucous-lepidote, collected in half-whorls, rather flaccid ; 

 flowers apetalous, greenish ; calyx deeply 5-cleft ; segments rather 

 obtuse, white-membranous at the margin, imbricate in aestivation ; 

 corolla 0; disk rudimentary; ovary pentagonal, 5-celled; cells 1-ovulate; 

 style firm ; stigmas 5, connivent in flower, soon radiate-patent ; capsule 

 globose-pentagonal, 5-celled, 5-valved, foveolate-impressed at the apex, 

 angles rather acute ; cells 1 -seeded ; seeds globose, granulated outside. 

 In sandy grassy thickets along the road from the lake Ivantala towards 

 Quilengues, near Lopollo andMonino, abundant ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. 

 No. 2417. 



I follow Oliver in referring this number as above, but its characters 

 are intermediate between those of P. myriantha Sond. and those of 

 P. androsacea Fenzl in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. p. 265 (1840), and it might 

 be considered as a variety of the latter and older species ; in fact, the 

 two species are probably not distinct. 



11. GISEKIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. i. p. 859. 



1. G. pharnacioides L. Mant. PI. alt., p. 562 (Gisechia) (1771); 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 593 [pharnaceoides). 



LOANDA. — An annual, prostrate, rather fleshy herb ; stems quadran- 

 gular, purplish, dichotomously or trichotomously branched, spreading 

 radiately over the ground, leaves opposite, rather fleshy, glaucous, 

 lanceolate, whitish-papillose beneath ; peduncles and pedicels brae- 



