596 lxvii. ficoide^: Coliver). [Limeum. 



Lower Guinea. Iluilla and Mossamedes, Angola, and var. hispidulum (Welw.), 

 shortly hispid ; cymes pedunculate, rather lax, Mossaraedes, Dr.Welwitsch ! Dr. Wawra. 

 Var. leiocarpum. Nuts minutely granulated or smooth, Mossamedes, Dr. Wehvitsch I 

 Also south of the tropic. 



2. L. Meyeri, Fenzl, Moling. 342, adnot. Nearly allied to and 

 with all the general characters of L. viscosum, differing in the oval or 

 oval-oblong leaves and flowers, congested- in close sessile leaf-opposed 

 glomerules J-§ in. in diameter. " Petals 3, clawed, obovate." Nuts 

 tuberculate-rugose.t — L. glomeratum, E. et Z. Enum. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch I 



3. Li. indicum, Stocks ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. (Fl. 

 Aden.) 30. Divaricately branched, diffuse or subprostrate, glandular- 

 puberulous or glabrate. Leaves opposite or nearly so, broadly ellip- 

 tical or rotundate, mucronate, entire, distinctly petiolate ; £-J in. long, 

 petiole 1-2 lines. Cymes few- or several-flowered, sessile or subsessile 

 at the nodes. Petals clawed, toothed above. Stamens 6-7. Nuts 

 about 1 line diameter, back quite smooth. 



Nile Land. Nubia, Dr. Bromfield I Ehreriberg ! (as L. viscosum, in Herb.-Berol.) 

 Also eastward to Scinde. 



4. L. linifolium, Fend; DC. Prod. xiii.^?^. 2, 24. Diffuse glabrous 

 annual (perennial, Klotzsch) -|-1 ft. or more ; branches rather slender, 

 procumbent or ascending, forking. Leaves alternate, linear, subacute, 

 narrowed at base, or oval in var. /3, J-2 in. long, T V-i in. broad, or to 

 J in. in var. 0. Cymes few or many-flowered, usually compact, sessile 

 or subsessile, lateral extra- axillary or terminal and sometimes pedun- 

 culate, occasionally 1-1 J in. in diameter. Sepals apiculate, with herba- 

 ceous midrib. Petals or varying to 3-5, Iinear-spathulate, hyaline. 

 Stamens 7 ; filaments abruptly dilated at base and there confluent. 

 Nuts bony, dorsally tuberculate or corrugate-tubercled, J— J in. dia- 

 meter. — -Dicarpcea linifolia, Presl, Symb. Bot. i. 38, tab. 26. Gaudinia 

 diffusa, J. Gay in Feruss. Bull, xviii. 412. Acanihocarpcea sulcata, 

 Vlotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 138, t. 24. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur I 



Lower Guinea. Mossamedec, Angola (also var. /3 poly gono ides' (Welw.) ; L. 

 argute-carinatum Wawra and Peyr., Sert. Beng. 23, with narrowly elliptical leaves) 

 Dr. Welwitsch ! Mouth of Katombela river, Dr. Wawra ! 



Nozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Dr. Kirk I Dr. Peters. 



Also South of the Tropic. 



Of Acathocarpcea scabrida, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 139, I have not seen 

 a specimen. It is not improbably a form of the above. The flowers do not in any way 

 differ, he says, but the fruits are smaller, the leaves oblong with subscabrid pellucid 

 margins, and the branches very minutely scabrid. 



EKKATUM, Page 50. 



Omit Trigonella marginata, Hochst. et Steud, which is, correctly cited as a 

 synonym of Trifolium subrotundum, Steud. et Hochst., p. 59. 



