422 Lxvi. FicoiDEiE. [Limeicm 



orange to brown (perhaps not quite ripe), nearly smooth or very 

 minutely granulated, the sides convex and remotely ribbed, the ribs 

 more raised towards the margin. In a sandy-gravelly place near the 

 sea-coast at Sacco de Giraul, only one plant seen, in mid-winter, in 

 company with a species of Crefim L. ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 2420. 

 In gravelly maritime places by the mouth of the river Caroca near 

 Cabo Negro ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1859. No. 24206. The whole plant, 

 even in the living state, tinged with a yellow or orange colour ; stems 

 prostrate, spreading in a circle. In very dry sandy places near Qui- 

 pola, about three miles distant from the sea, sparingly ; fl. and fr. 

 August 1859. No. 2421. 



2. L. glomeratum Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. PI. Afr. (ii.) p. 288 

 (Jan. 1836). 



L. Meyeri Fenzl in Ann. Wien. Mus. i. p. 342 note (1836?); 

 Oliv., I.e., p. 596. 



HuiLLA. — A prostrate, annual or biennial herb, spreading diffusely ; 

 stems greenish -yellow, tenacious ; leaves grass-green, somewhat 

 glaucous and fleshy ; petals 3 in some cases, obovate-cuneate, clawed ; 

 stamens 7, all fertile ; anthers yellow. In fields on a sandy-clay soil, 

 between IiopoUo and Humpata ; fl. and ripe fr. Dec. 1869. No. 2422. 



3. L. linifolium Fenzl, I.e. ; Oliv., I.e. 



MossAMEDES. — An annual prostrate glaucescent herb ; stems 

 branched at the apex, brittle ; leaves rather fleshy ; calyx whitish 

 with green nerves. In sandy places by Mata dos Carpenteiros with 

 Tamarlx orientaUs Forsk. and Euclea jyseudebenuH E. Mey., and at the 

 banks of the river Bero near Cavalheiros ; very scarce ; fl. and fr. 

 August and end of June 1859. No. 2425. 



Var. polygonoides (Welw. ex) Oliv., I.e., p. 596. 



L. argute-earinatum Wawra ex Wawra & Peyr in Sitz. Akad. 

 Wien, xxxviii. p. 563 (1860). 



MossAMEDES. — An annual herb, prostrate, glabrous and highly 

 glaucous throughout, dichotomously branched, brittle in the living 

 state, at least when old, very much so in the dry state, pretty on 

 account of its glaucous bloom and milk-white corymbs, in habit re- 

 sembling a species of Poh/gonum ; sepals milk-white, green-glaucous 

 along the acute keel, subcucullate-apiculate at the apex, veiy broadly 

 membranous on the margin ; petals always present, usually 2 or 1, 

 narrowly spathulate, ^ to f as long as the sepals, very tender, milk- 

 white ; stamens usually 7 ; style rather long, bifurcate at the apex or 

 in some cases deeply so, fugacious ; cocci elevato-hemispherical, 

 blackish, tenacious, all over except their excavated base beset with 

 short conical obtuse straight tubercles, always shorter than the sepals. 

 In sandy places along the banks of the river Bero near Cavalheiros, 

 among short herbage, 6 to 8 miles distant from the sea, not abundant ; 

 fl. and fr. June and July 1859. No. 2424. 



The following No. should be compared with this species : — 



PuNGO Andongo. — A very slender erect annual herb, 3 in. high ; 

 stem filiform, a little branched in the upper part ; leaves alternate ; 

 flowers very small. In a moist pasture on the right bank of the river 

 Cuanza, in company with species of Ifioetes and Drosera ; only one 

 specimen in fl. bud, 22 Feb. 1857. No. 6751. 



