J^esamuiii] xciii. pedaltace.e. 799 



Bero, plentiful ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 1648- Same locality, 



fr. June 1859. Coll. Carp. 23. 



This plant stains paper a reddish colour. 



The following No. probably belongs to this species : — 



MossAMEDKS. — Root dveing red. In bushy places on a sandy clay 



soil, near Giraiil ; without fl. or fr. July 1859. Xo. 1655- 



6. S. pedalioides Welw. ms. in Herb. 



An erect, pubescent, branched, rather wiry herb, i to 2 ft. 

 high or more ; branches alternate and opposite, spreading, 

 ascending, obtusely tetragonal, leafy ; leaves opposite sub- 

 opposite or alternate, sublinear or narrowly spathulate, grey- 

 green, puberulous, branny-glandular, entire or subrepand on 

 the narrowly thickened-revolute margin, 1 to 2 in. long by ^^ to 

 J in. broad, spreading, obtusely pointed at the apex, wedge- 

 shaped at the sessile or shortly petiolate base ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary but usually with a shortly stalked abortive flower-bud 

 or large gland in the same axil and a pair of similar buds in the 

 opposite axil, ^ in. long ; peduncles short, j\- to l in. long ; calyx 

 1^ in. long, hirsute, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes narrowly lanceolate- 

 linear, acute; corolla broadly campanulate-funnelshaped, some- 

 what ventricose at the base, thinly pilose outside, membranous, 

 veiny, shortly lobed, the lobes rounded at the apex ; stamens 4, 

 subdidynamous ; anthers oblong, included ; ovary ovoid-oblong, 

 hairy ; style puberulous, ^ to J in. long, included ; stigma 

 bilobed ; capsule hairy, ovoid-oblong, roundedly tetragonal, some- 

 what compressed especially upwards, very obtuse, subtruncate 

 and slightly emarginate at the apex, }r in. long, with a furrow 

 down each of the four sides, 4-cornuate at the base, bivalved, 

 dehiscing from the apex ; seeds in four longitudinal rows, 

 blackish, obovate, flattened on the two ffices, yV in. long, mth a 

 narrow wing or border surrounding each face except the narrow 

 base, rugulose-ribbed within the borders more or less transversely 

 or radiately. 



MossAMEDES. — In sandy sparingly herbaceous thickets on the left 

 bank of the river Bero, here and there ; fl. and fr. July 1859. 

 Xo. 1643, and Coll. Carp. 824. 



7. S. rigidum Peyritsch in Sitz. Akad. Wien, xxzviii. p. 572 (1 860). 

 Benc;uella. — In sandy maritime sparingly bushy places between 



Benguella and the river Catumbella ; fl. and few fr. June 1859. 

 No. 1646. 



8. S. triphyllum Welw. ex H. fSchinz (Aschers.) in Verb. Bot. 

 Brandenb. xxx. pp. 185, 239 (1888). 



Volkame7'ia trijyhylla O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 482. 



MossAMEDES. — An erect, branched, annual herb, 3 to 4 ft. high ; 

 leaves digitate ; leaflets 3 to 5, glaucous ; flowers handsome, violet in 

 colour outside, violet- purple inside ; seeds angular, alveolate all over 

 with small crowded pits, biauriculate on both faces above and below. 

 In moist sandy places at the banks of the river Bero ; fr. middle of 

 July 1859. Probably this species. Coll. Carp. 28. Corolla violet 

 purple. In gravelly places at the river Maiombo, near Pedra do Rei, 



