Philoxerxis] < i. amauantiiace.k. 897 



U. PHILOXERUS R. V,y. ; Bentli. it Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 40. 



1. P. veriniculatus Sm. in Kecs, Cyclop, xxvii. n. 3 (1H14). 



(iomphrrnn nrnucnlarl.s- L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 224 (1753). 

 Ilkcehrunt renaicHluluni I.. Sp. PI., edit. 2, }•. 3U0 (17G2). (J. 

 aggregata Willd. Knuui. PI. j.. 294 (1809). P. aygregatns II. P. 

 & K. Nov. Gen. it Sp. PI. ii. p. 203 (1817). P. rermicitlaris 

 Pal. Beauv. Fl. Ow. ii. p. G5. t. 98 (1818). Iresine vermicularis 

 Mot}, in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, p. 340 (1849). /. aggreguta Moq., I.e. 



LiiANiiA.— In ri. 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. o5G7 or bb^>> [Kirtly [Oriinuni aiueriauntm 

 Mill.). 



Mos.<amp:dks.— In maritime places by rocks near Praia da Amelia ; 

 fl. and fr. July IH.'JO. Xo. 6507- In moist sandy places close to the 

 river Bero then quite dry ; fl. and fr. Aug. 18.09. No. 6506. In moist 

 sandy places close to the river Caroca, by Cabo Negro : fl. and f r. Sept. 

 1859. No. 6506/'. 



(II. CHENOPODIACE^. 



Thi.s Order is not found to be numerous in Angola ; just as the 

 Criicifera3 are represented or replaced in tropical regions by the 

 Capparidefe, so are the Chenopodiacefe by the Amaranthaceje. 

 Chenopodiuia grareolens, however, occurs in the interior on the 

 ])latrau between Pungo Andongo and Condo and on the sandy 

 forest slopes towards the Cuanza river, and sometimes in such 

 mas.ses that they exercise a wonderful influence on the appearance 

 of those sandy steppes and are visible from a considerable distance 

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

 as well as their flowers. Not less plentifully does Arthrocnemum 

 macrostachijum occur at tlie tidal mouths of some rivers between 

 Aml)riz and Eio Onco ; 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 tlie 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, tht)ugh rarely, in .some gardens, in Loanda and Gohingo 

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

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

 p. 547. n. 73. 



1. CHENOPODIUM Tuurnef., L. ; Benth. it Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 iii. p. 51. 



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



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

 p. 65 (1894) ; it Herb. Norm. edit. Diirfler, n. 3222 (1895). 



PuNGO Anuongo. — By roadsides in the praisidium, in company with 

 C. (unbroxiokles L. (Welw. no. ('..Ua) and Urticacea), rather rare : 

 without fl. or fr. Feb. 1857. Xo. 6324. 



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