Chara] chakace/E (A. Braun). 323 



dried up in winter, between Mossamedes and Cavalheiros ; a rare 

 plant ; July 1859. No. 497. 



PuxciO Andongo. — Common in a salt stream in Sobato de Dungo, 

 not far from Quitage ; in company with Biippia ; end of March IS;")?, 

 No. 492. 



2. C. brachypus A. Br. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1849, p. 298 ; in 

 Berlin. Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Dec. 1867, p. 939. 



LoANDA. — ^Excessively fragile ; obscure green during life, and 

 growing not in thick crops (as is usual with Charas) but in isolated 

 tufts. Not uncommon at the margins of rain-water ponds near 

 Quicuxe in the plain of Loanda ; beginning of May 1854. No. 494. 



3. C. gymnopus A. Br. Schweiz. Cliarac. p. 23 in Schweiz. 

 Gesellsch. Neue Denkschr. x, 1849 (nomen); in Berlin. Monatsber. 

 Preuss. Akad. Dec. 1867, p. 942. 



Var. angolensis A. Br. Fragmente Monogr. Oharac. edid. 

 Nordstedt in Berlin. Akad. Abhandl. 1882, p. 191. 



G. anyolensis A. Br. in Berlin. Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. 

 Dec. 1867, p. 943. 



Bai{i;a do Bengo. — Not uncommon in the barely salt waters of the 

 great lake of Quisequele below Quifandongo at the mouth of the river 

 Bengo ; Dec. 1853. No. 493. 



Mossamepes. — In small quantity mixed with C. ftetida var. 

 suhinerraU in small slowly running streams quite dried up in winter, 

 between the town of Mossamedes and Cavalheiros ; July 1859. 

 No. 497. 



