Philoxerus] ci. amaranthace^. 897 



14. PHILOXERUS R. Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 40. 



1. P. vermiculatus Sm. in Kees, Cyclop, xxvii. n. 3 (1814). 



Gomphreyia vermicular is L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 224 (1753). 

 Illecebrum vermiculatum L. Sp. PI., edit. 2, p. 300 (1762). G. 

 aggregata Willd. Enum. PL p. 294 (1809). P. aggregatus H. B. 

 & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. PI. ii. p. 203 (1817). F, vermicularis 

 Pal. Beauv. Fl. Ow. ii. p. 65. t. 98 (1818). Iresine vermicularis 

 Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, p. 340 (1849). /. aggregata Moq., l.c, 



LoANDA. — In fl. and fr. Nos. 6538&, 6554. There is no note with 

 the former No. ; that found with the latter cannot belong to this, 

 species but perhaps to No, 5567 or bb^^ partly iOcimum americanum 

 Mill.). 



MossAMEDES. — In maritime places by rocks near Praia da Amelia ; 

 fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 6507. In moist sandy places close to the 

 river Bero then quite dry ; fl. and fr. Aug. 1859. No. 6506. In moist 

 sandy places close to the river Caroca, by Cabo Negro ; fl. and fr. Sept. 

 1859. No. 65066. 



CII. CHENOPODIACE^. 



This Order is not found to be numerous in Angola ; just as the 

 Cruciferse are represented or replaced in tropical regions by the 

 Capparidese, so are the Chenopodiacese by the Amaranthacese. 

 Chenopodium graveolens, however, occurs in the interior on the 

 plateau between Pungo Andongo and Condo and on the sandy 

 forest slopes towards the Cuanza river, and sometimes in such 

 masses that they exercise a wonderful influence on the appearance 

 of those sandy steppes and are visible from a considerable distance 

 on account of the blood-red colouring of their stems and leaves 

 as well as their flowers. Not less plentifully does Arthrocnemitm 

 macrostachyum occur at the tidal mouths of some rivers between 

 Ambriz and Rio Ongo ; its colour is typically herbaceous-green, 

 but when the salt water begins to dry and evaporate it sometimes 

 turns violet or peach-red, and covering as it does the surrounding 

 lowlands it then affords a striking and lovely prospect from the 

 neighbouring high ground, along which the road through the 

 Mossul country runs ; it stains everything violet. 



Basella alba L., an herbaceous climber with fleshy leaves, is 

 cultivated, though rarely, in some gardens, in Loanda and Golungo 

 Alto, under the name of " Batavia." Not less frequent is the 

 cultivation of spinach {Spinacia oleracea L.). See Welw. Apontam. 

 p. 547. n. 73. 



1. CHENOPODIUM Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 iii. p. 51. 



1. C. opulifolium Schrad. ex DC. Fl. Fr. v. p. 372 (1815). 



Var. betulifolium Murr in Deutsche Bot. Monatsschrift, xii. 

 p. 65 (1894) ; & Herb. Norm. edit. Dcirfler, n. 3222 (1895). 



Pungo Andongo. — By roadsides in the prsesidium, in company with 

 C. amhrosioides L. (Welw. no. Gol5) and Urticacese, rather rare ; 

 without fl. or fr. Feb. 1857. No. 6324. 



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